Non-traditional claw-like hands on the exterior of the dial rotate on discs.
The Laurium's 10 guest rooms are decorated in traditional style, with claw-foot bathtubs, canopied beds and mahogany furniture.
And none more so than the celebrated recreational mathematician Caspar Schwabe, who has gone one better than the traditional three-pronged "golden claw" and made a four-pronged one.
Although mussels, clams and shrimp are an obvious and traditional combination, scallops, lobster claws or tails, or pieces of fish are all great.
Archaeopteryx was the first fossil to display both clearly traditional reptilian characteristics: teeth, clawed fingers, and a long, lizard-like tail, as well as wings with flight feathers identical to those of modern birds.
The claw hammer is the traditional tool because it can be used to pull nails as well as drive them.
The two claws of Google's pincer movement against traditional PCs may each offer more features - and complexity - than the iPad, but only one, Android Honeycomb, feels capable of doing as much damage as Jobs' magical giant iPhone.
The rooms are decorated in a traditional country style, with antique furniture, claw-foot bathtubs and black-and-white tiled floors.
After Earth, with its battle against tooth-and-claw nature, resembles the more traditional post-apocalyptic tale.
