[kingludite]

pondering flatness I had this idea to paint the small hand onto the dial then get rid of the big hand and replace it with a virtual one using a Moiré pattern painted onto the glass and the dial.

very crude demo (running in the wrong direction :P)

https://jsfiddle.net/s1cwze3d/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern

(Designing the correct pattern is left as an exercise for the reader)