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[[File:doctorwho_watch_701.jpg|link=Doctor Who|frame|Best not to open it.]] |
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{{quote|''"All historians agree that George Washington's greatest regret was not being {{smallcaps| PERMANENTLY INVISIBLE}}. Now you can succeed where the man who invented America failed. Be invisible forever with the Cloak and Dagger Spy Watch!"''|[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day04_english.htm The Cloak and Dagger], ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]''}} |
{{quote|''"All historians agree that George Washington's greatest regret was not being {{smallcaps| PERMANENTLY INVISIBLE}}. Now you can succeed where the man who invented America failed. Be invisible forever with the Cloak and Dagger Spy Watch!"''|[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day04_english.htm The Cloak and Dagger], ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]''}} |
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* In [[Kim Newman]]'s ''Diogenes Club'' stories, it's strongly implied that there's something interesting about Charles Beauregard's pocket watch "with the intricate crystal workings". [[The Men in Black|The Undertaking]] refuse to let him into their HQ while carrying it, and he ''certainly'' refuses to let them look after it while he's there. Sadly, the glossary page explaining what it ''does'' has been censored by the current Diogenes chairperson. |
* In [[Kim Newman]]'s ''Diogenes Club'' stories, it's strongly implied that there's something interesting about Charles Beauregard's pocket watch "with the intricate crystal workings". [[The Men in Black|The Undertaking]] refuse to let him into their HQ while carrying it, and he ''certainly'' refuses to let them look after it while he's there. Sadly, the glossary page explaining what it ''does'' has been censored by the current Diogenes chairperson. |
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* In ''The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything'' by John D. MacDonald, the hero inherits a gold pocket watch that stops time for everyone but the person holding it. |
* In ''The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything'' by John D. MacDonald, the hero inherits a gold pocket watch that stops time for everyone but the person holding it. |
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** ''The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything'' was homaged in ''Lady Slings the Booze'' (part of the ''[[ |
** ''The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything'' was homaged in ''Lady Slings the Booze'' (part of the ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Literature)|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]]'' series) where one of the bad guys has a time stop device built into a fancy gold wristwatch. Author [[Spider Robinson]] acknowledged the [[Shout-Out]] to John D. MacDonald in the introduction. |
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** Also homaged (without credit) in the ''[[Duck Tales]]'' episode "Time Teasers." |
** Also homaged (without credit) in the ''[[Duck Tales]]'' episode "Time Teasers." |
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* The ''[[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]]'' novel ''Borrowed Time'' has a similar idea, with a twist. The people Mr Symmington and Mr Blenkinsop give their wristwatches to are literally ''borrowing'' the time, and will be expected to pay it back. With compound interest. |
* The ''[[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]]'' novel ''Borrowed Time'' has a similar idea, with a twist. The people Mr Symmington and Mr Blenkinsop give their wristwatches to are literally ''borrowing'' the time, and will be expected to pay it back. With compound interest. |
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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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* The teleport bracelets from ''[[Blake's Seven |
* The teleport bracelets from ''[[Blake's Seven|Blakes Seven]]''. Apparently they had to be regularly replaced because the cast and crew kept stealing them as presents for their kids. |
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' got there first, with the teleport-wristwatches featured in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1 E5 The Keys of Marinus|The Keys of Marinus]]'' (like ''[[Blake's Seven|Blakes Seven]]'', written by [[Terry Nation]]). The Seventh Doctor had a pocketwatch scanner, which he used in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26 E4 Survival|Survival]]''; possibly in other stories as well. The Chameleon Arch pocketwatch in "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood" and "Utopia" DEFINITELY counts as a gadget-watch. It {{spoiler|holds the memories and Time Lord nature of a Time Lord who's going ''so'' deep cover he gives himself false memories and even reads genetically as a human or member of any other target species.}} |
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** Vortex manipulators (wriststrap teleport/time machines used by Time Agents and River) might also fall under this; one would assume a time machine can tell the time. |
** Vortex manipulators (wriststrap teleport/time machines used by Time Agents and River) might also fall under this; one would assume a time machine can tell the time. |
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* [[Chuck]] has a "government issue watch" that can be used to trace him. He's also seen talking into it as a way of communication. |
* [[Chuck]] has a "government issue watch" that can be used to trace him. He's also seen talking into it as a way of communication. |
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