Trefoil

There are no hands. Each scale is a line that is thick from the top up to the current value, and thin after it.

1. Hours

   The outer trefoil is the hour scale. Each leaf holds four hours: the tips are 12, 4 and 8, the valleys between them 2, 6 and 10, and every hour is an equal length along the line. The green line is thick from 12 up to the hour: at 10:09 it has just passed the valley at 10.

2. Minutes

   The circle around the trefoil is the minute scale. The orange line is thick from the top up to the minute: at 10:09 it has passed the tick at 5 and is nearing 10.

3. Seconds

   The inner trefoil follows the outer one and is the seconds scale. The blue line goes round it once a minute, five seconds to each hour mark: at :35 it has passed the bottom valley (:30) and is on its way to the left tip (:40).

Compared with the classic clock.

• R1
  The classic clock

  The scale runs round a circle.

  Here →The hour and seconds scales are trefoils, not circles. Each leaf holds four hours, so the day falls into parts of equal length.

  Also broken by Star Path

• R2
  The classic clock

  A hand points to the value on the scale.

  Here →No hand points at the value. The line of each scale is thick from the top up to the current value, and thin after it.

  Also broken by Star Path

Same as the classic clock

• 12 at the top
• Clockwise
• 12-hour cycle
• Round minute scale