The invention provides a pointer type display device, which can improve the readability of indication by pointer. A clock (1), which is an pointer display device, has hands (31, 32), a pointer moving unit, a display panel (20), and a drive control unit for controlling the driving of the pointer moving unit and the display panel (20). The drive control unit has: a scale display control unit, which causes the scale (21, 22) to be displayed on the scale display area (25, 26) of the display panel (20) overlapping with the movable area plane of the pointer (31, 32); and a pointer position detection unit that detects the position of the pointer (31, 32). The scale display control unit divides the scale display area (25, 26) into scale areas (23, 24) and non-scale areas outside the scale area according to the detected pointer position, only in the scale area (23, 24 ) display scales (21, 22) for reading the indicated values of the pointers (31, 32).