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== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]]'s novella ''[[The Nutcracker (novel)|The Nutcracker and The Mouse King]]'' (and any adaptations thereof), the character Drosselmeyer is a clockmaker and inventor who is a [[Cool Old Guy]] and implied to have some supernatural connection
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
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** Although he isn't a watchmaker himself, Lord Vetinari quite often uses a watch metaphor for the city of Ankh Morpork, and the metaphor is very apt- and puts Vetinari right in the centre as the watchmaker: by careful organizing and attention to detail, he has made a ridiculously complex city run smoothly and almost automatically- the parts of the city, like the gears in a watch- are buoyed around by the force of each other. And, fitting with the trope, he's next to omniscient and is most definitely NOT unambiguously good.
** Nanny Ogg kind of makes a roundabout reference to this trope in ''[[
* In John Morressy's short story ''Timekeeper'', the mysterious clockmaker who moves to town seems to have time-related powers, but mostly he uses them to have exactly the right clock ready at exactly the right time for every customer who comes into his shop.
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* This is very explicit with Sylar of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', who starts out fixing watches and have the power of complete understanding of how things work. He starts out using this ability to acquire more powers by <s>eating</s> dissecting his victims' [[Brain Food|brains]]. He later starts using it to analyze the other characters and hand out [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|The Reason You Suck speeches]] to them, before finally using it to put together a scheme to achieve [[Take Over the World|Total World Domination]].
* The mysterious omnipotent time-traveler Bilis Manger in ''[[Torchwood]]'' runs a clock shop, reflecting both his power over time and his ability to run seamless [[Gambit Roulette]]s.
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