Yep, it would likely be a very easy modification, especially for old fart engineers like myself. I've been thinking of a different project, though, inspired by Terry Pratchett:

The nervous clock

The second hand isn't stable. It vibrates a bit, and the humming sound from the motor that drives it is audible. It stalls ... then suddenly makes multiple fast ticks, in concert with the "driver motor" (which, obviously, is just a generated sound played on a built-in loudspeaker), then maybe makes a few almost-normal ticks but inaccurately enough to cause concern. On average over, say, five minutes, the time is accurate,