alternate wednesday: the time traveler’s watch

We always pay a lot of attention to the mechanisms of time travel–a DeLorean, the Millenium Shortcut, slingshotting around the sun at warp speed–but every time traveler has another important tool: a watch. Sometimes it’s just there for symbolism, like the paradoxical pocket watch in Somewhere in Time, but often it serves a more practical purpose, what it was made for–to keep track of time.

Clocks are everywhere in Back to the Future, andMarty McFly’s digital watch is more than just a gag; ther...