The second hand is the icklest hand on a watch, and also the fastest. If it were bigger, it might sweep the other hands away with the force of its passage. Second hands are really only there so   you can check your watch is working, and that the flow of time has not stopped. You can't time things with them, because half way through you get distracted by a passing bus or something and then you can't remember whether it's been a bit less than two minutes, or a bit less than three minutes. Second hands. Useless. Get a digital watch NB

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