A clockwork Targe is a magically enhanced piece of ClockTech Machinery. It is so named because it resembles a targe, a small round shield worn on the arm. In this case it does in fact double as a shield, strapped to an off hand by means of a leather bracer as a  kind of improved vambrace. Hidden beneath the targe itself, however are a series of serrated metal blades which , by pulling a lever, can be made to fan out around the edge of the targe.  The pulling of another lever causes a clockwork engine to rapidly unwind, sending the spinning targe forward on the end of a length of chain, ideally sawing off an opponents limb or head, at a distance of up to 20 feet. The engine can be rewound, reeling the serrated disc back in and allowing the weilder to begin again. Earlier models were equipped with a rapid rewinding function, magically enhanced, such that it could be pulled back like a zipcord. This was later abandoned for obvious reasons.

The levers used to pull the blades out and eventually fire the targe, are usually located in the palm of the wearer. A pair of handles extends through the leather bracer up along the wrist and rests against the underside of the wearers second knucle joint. folding the fingers down one extends the blades, further folding the fingers down into a fist releases the targe.

Though it was developed by Ryan Garrison, the enigmatic Harkanian genius behind RyGar Limited, the weapon has become exceedingly popular in Mycopalusia and the Ugarite Valley where black powder weapons are not yet in common use and the local fighting style favors an offhand ranged weapon and a one handed scimitar or kopesh. In Harkania they are considered eccentric but mostly effective.