The trade in clocks

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From: Devices and Desires


Most clocks and watches have foreign hallmarks, but not all. What of the Neath's own tradition of clock-making?

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Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 100

  • 69 - very chancy (41%)
  • 85 - chancy (51%)
  • 102 - modest (61%)
  • 119 - very modest (71%)
  • 135 - low-risk (81%)
  • 152 - straightforward (91%)
  • 167 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Parcelling out time

They say that all Neath-made clocks are powered by moon-pearls. They say that Mr Cups knows every clock in London. They say that certain movements of the bat-flocks interfere with the pearls […] Very few can afford to find out if this is true.

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Failure

Ticks and tocks

There are clockmakers' shops in the Neath, but they are the preserve of Mr Cups, and it is difficult to find them. Apparently, he guards his monopoly on clocks jealously, as if this puts him in control of time itself.