He nods. "Because eventually, where I come from, we decided why should the priests be the only people who synchronize time? Anyway, that clock has gears inside that are designed to move at even intervals, the hand that moves in a beat," and he imitates the rhythmic tapping of the second hand, "that taps away sixty times, evenly, then the biggest hand moves one notch to the right. Once it moves around the whole face once, that's an hour, and the small hand moves to the next number, so you know which hour."
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