Abstract: A timepiece having a plurality of plates (12, 14, 16) in place of the standard hour, minute and second's hands, printed with patterns of open and opaque areas (52). As these plates rotate, novel and stimulating visual effects in the form of multiple moire images (54) are produced. Optional internal illumination (38) enhances the moire images. Some patterns consist primarily of a series of angular linear shapes, that have an alternating sequence of approximately.360.degree./N=Y and L+Y=X,where N represents the desired number of concentric ring segments, which may be any integer, Y represents the resulting rotation angle, L represents the selected initial angled line pattern which may be any angle from 0.degree. to 360.degree. and X represents a rotated angled line pattern for a contiguous segment, this contiguous segment is located counter-clockwise contiguously to the selected segment.