A watch-type mobile terminal comprising: a display unit; a physical hour hand; a physical minute hand; a control unit; and a computer-readable medium coupled to the control unit having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by the control unit, causes the control unit to perform operations comprising: operating the watch-type mobile terminal in an analog clock mode by displaying, through the hour hand and the minute hand, an hours component and a minutes component of a current time; receiving a digital mode request configured to switch an operation mode of the watch-type mobile terminal into a digital clock characterized by: based on receipt of the digital mode request, displaying, through the display unit, a numerical representation of the hours component and the minutes component of the current time; and displaying a seconds component of the current time by controlling both the hour hand and the minute hand such that the physical hour hand and the physical minute hand positioned on the display unit are overlapped with each other to indicate the seconds component of the current time. a display unit; a physical hour hand; a physical minute hand; a control unit; and a computer-readable medium coupled to the control unit having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by the control unit, causes the control unit to perform operations comprising: operating the watch-type mobile terminal in an analog clock mode by displaying, through the hour hand and the minute hand, an hours component and a minutes component of a current time; receiving a digital mode request configured to switch an operation mode of the watch-type mobile terminal into a digital clock characterized by: based on receipt of the digital mode request, displaying, through the display unit, a numerical representation of the hours component and the minutes component of the current time; and displaying a seconds component of the current time by controlling both the hour hand and the minute hand such that the physical hour hand and the physical minute hand positioned on the display unit are overlapped with each other to indicate the seconds component of the current time. operating the watch-type mobile terminal in an analog clock mode by displaying, through the hour hand and the minute hand, an hours component and a minutes component of a current time; receiving a digital mode request configured to switch an operation mode of the watch-type mobile terminal into a digital clock characterized by: based on receipt of the digital mode request, displaying, through the display unit, a numerical representation of the hours component and the minutes component of the current time; and displaying a seconds component of the current time by controlling both the hour hand and the minute hand such that the physical hour hand and the physical minute hand positioned on the display unit are overlapped with each other to indicate the seconds component of the current time. based on receipt of the digital mode request, displaying, through the display unit, a numerical representation of the hours component and the minutes component of the current time; and displaying a seconds component of the current time by controlling both the hour hand and the minute hand such that the physical hour hand and the physical minute hand positioned on the display unit are overlapped with each other to indicate the seconds component of the current time.