Analog is a conventional full-screen analog clock: all twelve numerals, with 12, 3, 6 and 9 weighted heavier than the rest, and hands drawn as closed shapes with every corner rounded rather than as plain tapered lines. If you came looking for an online clock that simply looks like a clock, this is the one.
Analog carries three movements, more than any other face. Quartz advances the second hand in one eased step per second, the way a battery watch does. Mechanical replaces that with a ten-step-per-second sweep, close enough to continuous to read as a mechanical escapement. Pick Quartz if you want the clock to be quiet, Mechanical if you want it to feel alive.
Strings is the outlier. The three hands are replaced by simulated ropes, each one a chain of points run through a physics solver every frame — they hang, swing past their mark and settle, and they can catch on one another as they cross. It is the one movement here that does not keep perfectly rigid time, which is the point of it.
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