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See also [[Race Against the Clock]], [[Right on the Tick]], and [[24-Hour Trope Clock]].
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== Film ==
* In ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'', at one point it is implied that Captain Vidal's pocketwatch originally belonged to his father, which the latter broke at the time of his death so it would freeze at that time in order to show his son "How a brave man dies" and later Vidal had it repaired out of spite. {{spoiler|As Vidal is about to be killed by the rebels he takes out his watch presumably to break it again and asks that his son be told the time of his death only for Mercedes to cut him off to say "He won't even know [his] name" followed by her brother shooting him.}}
* The clock tower in [[Back to The Future]] stopped after being stuck by lightning, giving Marty and Doc a precise time to use the lightning to time travel.
* ''[[The War of the Worlds (
* In ''[[Chinatown]]'', Jack places a watch under the car of the person he's tailing. That way he could know at what time he left by the time the watch was run over.
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