Yes, you can. Dieter Zech (mentioned in the article, check out his image gallery) did this for one of his earlier clocks. The downside is that with this the int

Yes, you can. Dieter Zech (mentioned in the article, check out his image gallery) did this for one of his earlier clocks. The downside is that with this the intermezzo animations don't look that cool and nice. If you just want to show the time: go for it. If you want to show nice animations, don't have a hide position. A third option would be to have a third hand to blank out the others, but mechanically this would mean a completely different stepper motor behind it.