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Using Python,

Take the challenge: design your own clock. You are not limited in any way - the hands don't have to move clockwise, or even in a circle. For that matter, the hands don't have to move; the hands could be stationary and the numbers move.

Heck, your clock doesn't even have to have hands. If you add an animation, it should be synchronous with movement of the hands or the equivalent.

The colors I added were a form of synchronous animation. You can certainly find plenty of ideas for strange clocks - just do a web search. I made a 60-second sandglass, or rather the equivalent with two triangles that change size.

That was harder than it sounds; the upper triangle needs to move as well as change size to make it look like the sand level is dropping.

Classic ideas would be a pendulum or a cat with shifting eyes. You can also add extra features - moon phase, star chart, or anything else you can think of - some may require research. In a watch, these extras are called complications - a complicated watch has one or more functions beyond time and date.

The record seems to be 36 complications. Unfortunately, we haven't covered sound, so no chimes are possible.

There are Python libraries for sound, but that is just too far for us to go for one program.