Somewhere between age five and seven, every child meets the analogue clock - usually in a worksheet, already graded. By then the child who has played with a real dial has a quiet advantage: they know the hour hand moves too, that "half past" is a place and not a phrase, and that the 3 secretly means fifteen.
The order that worked in our house: hour hand alone first, on a clock with the minute hand physically removed. Then skip-counting by fives around the dial as a game, no clock talk at all. Only after both are easy do the hands go back together.
Common trap: teaching digital and analogue at the same time. Digital reading is instant and effortless, so the child (rationally) refuses the dial. Give the analogue clock a month head start.
For daily five-minute practice we use the free telling-time games at Dad4Kids - the child drags the hands, the clock answers back, no signup and no ads.
And keep one analogue clock in the kitchen. Not for decoration: "we leave at half past eight" only means something if the wall shows it.