The Foundation Files: Astrological Countdown Watch

The Foundation Files

Astrological Countdown Watch

Report No.: ANOM Ar11009
Date: April 17, 192-
Submitted by: Field Agent Benjamin Hale
Category of Anomaly: Relic
Type of Anomaly: Mechanism
Location: Arkham, Massachusetts

Summary:

A watch which can possibly be set to count down the time toward a given alignment of the stars.

However, the presumed “time” seems to be a particularly impossible cosmic event. Sinister. The clock is composed of three arms, one which curves at the end and a series of horoscope-inspired visuals paired with other occult symbols, and yet also tells the time. A vexing find, to be sure.

• Mechanical principle unknown.
• The watch is running, but there does not appear to be a way to wind up. Perpetual motion???

Annotated diagram attached overleaf:

• Astronomical and astrological symbols. Do the hands indicate celestial alignments?
• On the main face, each hand moves both clockwise and counterclockwise at different times. No pattern to the changes of direction discerned,as of now.
• The hands on the smaller face to the left have not moved since the object’s discovery.
• The hand on the smaller face to the right has moved slightly counterclockwise over the course of a week.
• The speed suggests the divisions are months.
• Does that make the other face an indicator of a year?

Counting down to an event? If so, a trigger?

by David Annandale