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[[File:doctorwho_watch_701.jpg|link=Doctor Who|frame|Best not to open it.]]
 
{{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]]''}}
 
There's something cool about wrists and devices on them. Wristwatches are cool. Wristwatches that call your [[Superman|special friend]] are even cooler.
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== Anime and Manga ==
 
* Light Yagami hides a piece of his ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' inside his watch, meaning he can kill anyone at any time.
** [http://www.hiyoooo.com/ Hiyoooo.]
* Roger Smith uses one to summon ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]].''
** Plus, it has a grappling hook.
*** And a laser. But we never see him check the time.
* In ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Anime)|Gatchaman]]'', The Science Ninja Team needed their watches (sometimes called "bracelets" but hey, it was the seventies) to transform, plus they contained a communications device.
* The Pockets from ''[[Tower of God]]''. Not only are they timers and watches, they also work as phones, contract forms and babel fish.
* Erio's [[Blade Onon a Stick|Strada]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' comes in watch form when not in use, serving as both [[Transformation Trinket]] and communicator.
* Chao's {{spoiler|time machine}} in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' looks like a large pocket watch.
* In ''[[Detective Conan (Manga)|Detective Conan]]'', Conan Edogawa's watch has a stun gun plus a very bright torch.
* [[Lupin III|Lupin's]] can contain any number of cool things, but a grappling hook is seen the most often
* Faye Valentine of ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]]'' had a bracelet that controlled her [[Cool Starship]] and an anklet that controlled [[Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught|weighted dice]].
* ''[[Giant Robo]]'': Daisaku controls the eponymous giant robot with one.
* Youji from ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' hides his garrote wire inside his already cool-looking diver's watch.
* Ed's pocketwatch in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' is a badge of rank, noting his position as a State Alchemist. These watches allegedly serve as an alchemical amplifier somehow, but this is never really shown. It is mainly used as an ID to access government resources, including a massive expense account.
 
== Comic Books ==
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** ...[[Awesome but Impractical|and were several times more bulky for one additional function.]]
*** Well, Gary admits it IS a prototype.
* [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] and other spies use these types of wristwatches all the time. At least for Bond, it becomes something of an [[Ass Pull]], since it just so happens to do whatever he needs it for at that moment, be it a buzzsaw to cut ropes, a laser to cut steel, an electromagnet to fetch keys, and so on.
** To the point that in one of the later films, the villain took away his watch because [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|he knew it was a gadget of some kind]].
** In ''[[From Russia With Love (Film)|From Russia Withwith Love]]'', [[The Dragon]] Red Grant kills people with a garotte concealed in his wristwatch.
* ''[[Our Man Flint]]''. Derek Flint's watch could wake him up out of suspended animation and act as a microscope.
* ''[[Undercover Brother]]''. Smart Brother gave the title character a watch that could spritz hot sauce on white people's food to make it edible.
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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 ''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.
** ''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.
** Also homaged (without credit) in the ''[[Duck TalesDuckTales]]'' episode "Time Teasers."
* 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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== Video Games ==
 
* The COMP terminals from certain games in the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise)|Shin Megami Tensei]]'' series serve various functions. In all games, they contain a ''Demon Summoning Program'' used to call demons that you have contracts with. In ''IMAGINE Online'', it also holds the Demonic Compendium and the chat program as well. Certain hacked COMPs serve as dungeons, and some special COMPs can style your hair!
* In the ''[[Phoenix Wright]] [[Ace Attorney]]'' series, Matt Engarde has a bracelet that works as a cell phone, and ''[[Apollo Justice]]'' has a special one that can tell his whenever someone around is feeling a strong emotion, so he use the Perceive System to find tells in his witnesses.
* The Pipboy from ''[[Fallout]]'' 3.
* The Omni-Tool in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series serves this function, it is pretty much a wrist-mounted laptop/communications system that can be used to hurl tech attacks and looks like an orange-yellow glove thing. Come ''[[Mass Effect]] 3'', you can effectively use one as a [[Laser Blade]].
* In ''[[Absolute Obedience]]'', the Russian [[Honey Trap|spy]] Zhores Barsoukova appeared to have one of these. {{spoiler|It turned out to be a completely ordinary watch, and a decoy from a less compromised spy.}}
* The Spy from ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' has three different watches, each equipped with a slightly different type of cloaking device.
** However, one of them is a pocket watch instead of a wristwatch.
* The PokéGear, introduced in ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'', was a wrist-worn multi-function device (watch, map, phone, and radio). After skipping it in ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)|Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]'', which had the hand-held but not wrist-worn PokéNav, the concept returned in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game)|Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'' with the appropriately-named Pokétch (Pokemon Watch) in the main series and a new PokéGear for the Gen 2 remakes.
* In ''[[Secret Agent Barbie]]'', a watch is used by [[Barbie]] to communicate with her friends back at base while she’s on a mission. When it’s not being used in this way, it functions as a minimap/GPS type thing.
 
== Web Comics ==
 
* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' has [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-12-31 walkie talkie watches]. Not much compared to a cellphone or a real walkie-talkie, but it's fun, convenient (though less so than a headset) and concealed.
 
== Western Animation ==
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{{quote| '''Hamton:''' What does it do?<br />
'''Plucky:''' Nothing! But it only costs $29.95! }}
* ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'''s, which actually [[Lampshaded]] the fact the Omnitrix doesn't tell time.
* The Tracy Brothers in ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' communicated with each other using these.
* Brock, Rusty, and the eponymous brothers in ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'' have watches that act as video communicators, as well as contain GPS trackers so they can find each other. Rusty's bother JJ uses a device concealed in his collar instead, [[Lampshade Hanging|pointing out]] that watches are impractical, since in the event of being captured, the villain will almost certainly bind your hands.
* ''[[Inspector Gadget (Animation)|Inspector Gadget]]'''s entire hand functions as a gadget watch (among other things). His niece Penny has a more standard Videophone/ Remote watch, however.
* Parodied in ''[[Sheep in The Big City]]'' when Sheep is recruited by a spy organization and receives a watch...that can tell the date. When the enemy Mooks look at it, they scream "He has a watch that tells the date! ABORT MISSION!" and start evacuating en masse before the Angry Scientist shows up and says it isn't dangerous.
* Scrooge's nephews had one (and caused predictable chaos with it, and allowed villains to steal it, etc.) in the ''[[Duck TalesDuckTales]]'' episode "Time Teasers".
* [[Clue Club]]'s wristwatches have a pager function.
 
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