A Timestopping Pocket Watch, Alnea

• Also known as Himmel’s pocket watch or the Time-saver, the Timestoppig pocket watch is truly a terrifying artifact.
• The pocket watch is very ordinary looking, gold in color, with small dents and divots that show its age with glory, the true identifying feature of the pocket watch is visible when it’s open.
• On the inner part of the lid, there is an inscription, reading “Time waits for no man, no man except me.”
• The last known holder of the Time-saver was Nathaniel Morris, who bought it from a traveling merchant for a tidy sum of 10,000 gold (roughly 2.5 million USD). A few years after he bought it, his mansion was found in a ruined state, and he hasn't been spotted since.
• Abilities
• The watch has the incredible ability to stop time for 3 minutes, and 14 seconds at a time. This will occur whenever the watch stops ticking. When the 3 minutes and 14 seconds are up, the watch will rewind, giving itself 3 hours, 14 minutes, and 15 seconds until it stops ticking.
• This will only stop time for whoever’s the full name and magical signature are recorded on the lid, and whenever a change in ownership occurs, the signature and name are removed and replaced.
• While the watch can automatically rewind itself, the dial can be turned to give more or less time until it stops, a lower limit of 1 second.

Times it was used, incomplete due to lack of proper record

1. Earliest recorded use was in 1249, a magician who went mad used it to massacre 12 people before he was caught and jailed.
2. 1288, a woman kidnapped four children so she could ‘adopt’ them.
3. 1343, a child robs a store.
4. 1346, the same child robs the national treasure, getting stuck in the vault and being rescued, then jailed.
5. 1399, the king of Maltas used it to finish his work much faster, using it over 1,000 times in a row (with 1-second breaks in between each time stop) before dying of exhaustion.
6. 1456, a serial killer targeting young lords and ladies kills 4 before being trapped in a duel and dying.
7. 1501, a massive courthouse finishes construction way ahead of schedule, thanks to one construction worker’s use of the watch over 3,000 times in one month.
8. 1821, a family used it to cross a dangerous border between 2 rivaling nations.
9. 1924, Nathaniel Morris uses the watch to read a book.