A white windmill on the plain of La Mancha. Its four sails are the minute hand, the sail with the red pennant pointing to the minute; Don Quixote's broken lance, lodged at the hub, is the hour hand.

Don Quixote of La Mancha Miguel de Cervantes, in John Ormsby's translation (1885)

12:00 at night
Part One, Chapter I

Midnight to noon reads Part One (1605), 52 chapters; noon to midnight reads Part Two (1615), 74 chapters, ending with the will and death of Alonso Quixano. The pennanted sail gives the minute, the lance the hour.