The phrase "a minute hand" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase "a minute hand" when referring to the very small hand on a clock or watch that rotates every minute. For example: "The clock has a second hand and a minute hand."
Beginning in 1952 Mr. Seliger recorded, in a minute hand, his observations about the art world, his thoughts on painting and the technical details of his works in progress in slim notebooks.
The menu changes, it seems, on the turn of a minute hand – it depends on what's in season and what's good: turbot, perhaps, with cider butter and summer vegetables, kid meat "scrumpets" with hot mustard.
(Around the same time, the word "punctual" entered common parlance, perhaps because most clocks and watches were finally being rigged with not just an hour hand but also a minute hand).
The people sitting to your left and right would always be there, but you would move in relation to the person opposite, in a continuous flow that would be as imperceptible "as the movement of a minute hand on a watch".
A minute hand was added to the clock in 1833 and its mechanism was replaced around 1906.
In the first story of Alex's earlier collection Blue Has No South (2010), Karl Jung gives his mistress a watch without a minute hand, a watch that "measures the time of love".
There is a hours hand at 11 o'clock and a minutes hand at 4. There is also a main seconds hand and a sub-seconds hand that engages with the chronometer.
As it is, I'm older than my grandfather, And most days making fresh discoveries – That Rimsky wrote Rachmaninovian songs; How martins gather under a sky of greys; And down a garden wall a snail Moves rather quicker than a minute-hand.
A series of hand hygiene procedures were evaluated including a 30-second non-antimicrobial handwash and a 5 minute hand disinfection procedure with a scrub brush using 4% chlorinated lime, 2000 ppm peracetic acid, or 1000 ppm acidified bleach.
A second minute hand was later added to show the time in London as well as the local time in Bristol; the red minute hand shows Greenwich Mean Time and the black minute hand shows Bristol time.
The shape of the hour hand refers to the dome of a mosque while the minute hand resembles a minaret.
