OK. SO here's what I've found:

"! xclock
! ------
! Most of the resource parts of the man page for xclock are useless, 
! because the resources they describe (foreground, hands, etc.) are ignored 
! if Xrender is in effect to draw an antialiased xclock.  You can disable 
! Xrender so as to use these (using the -norender parameter), but the result 
! looks awful.  Instead, you need a different set of resources, which are not 
! documented in xclock but must be reverse-engineered from the systemwide
! app-defaults file for XClock color (/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XClock-color).
! (Plus "background", but NOT "foreground".)
!
! See a good discussion by "syntaxerror" and "Drav Sloan" at:
! 
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/89304/facelifting-xclock-while-using-xrender-a-long-and-winding-road
!
! majorColor  is the 5-minute tick-marks
! minorColor  is the 1-minute tick-marks
! hourColor   is the hour hand
! minuteColor is the minute hand
! secondColor would be, I presume, the second hand"

SOURCE:
http://www.galleyrack.com/images/artifice/programming/useful/fvwm/configuration
/dot-Xresources


I've been able to produce decent results for viewing from across a room while 
having morning coffee, etc. It stays outta the window-switcher(alt-tab) and 
hence outta my way while navigating the Mutter/GNOME Shell interface at other 
times with this config(see attached for a screenshot):

chris@CKR-1:~$ cat .Xresources

XClock*background:      #2C3133
XClock*majorColor:      grey60
XClock*minorColor:      grey40
XClock*hourColor:       grey80
XClock*minuteColor:     grey80
XClock*width:           400
XClock*height:          400


** Attachment added: "Demo of config file"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x11-apps/+bug/788596/+attachment/5010187/+files/Screenshot%20from%202017-11-16%2014-25-34.png

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