And what about the rest of the clock face?
The red circle on the second hand, the length and aspect of the minute and hour hand?
The colors.
It's easily to deride design when you factor out but one of the elements that make it unique.
Design patents and trademarks are for the *entire* design combination, not specific individual elements. The individual pieces are fair game; the *whole* is not.
Is that so frakking hard to accept?