You go out looking to buy a Rolex wristwatch. You find one for sale at a dealer who assures you it is an authentic and will tell you the time perfectly, but best of all, he's going to sell it to you at only a quarter of the price you would normally pay for a brand new one. So you decide it's a great deal, hand over the cash, and leave a happy customer. A week later you notice it getting a little slow, so you figure the battery is just about dead and replace it a new one, but a few days later it starts happening again. You also notice that the day of the month seems a bit off - instead of changing from the 4th to the 5th, it went to the 7th. After a few more days the watch seems to have stopped with the hands stuck at 12:07. Your friend, who is an expert watchmaker, takes a look at your watch and discovers that it is not a Rolex, but a cheap Chinese counterfeit. He tells you he knows this because of the similarities between the poorly made gears in the watch - which have caused it to seize up - and the other counterfeit watches he has come across in his career, which he shows you. He concludes by telling you that you have been scammed and your money has been stolen. You tell him he is wrong and point to the working clocks on his wall, both analogue and digital, which all read 12:07, just as your watch does as well. He points out that in 52 seconds the clocks on his wall, in others' houses, and in the whole city will read 12:08 while yours will still read 12:07. He goes on to say that if you keep using and relying on your supposedly broken wristwatch to tell the time, it could have serious ramifications for you. For instance, he explains, you may have an appointment for a job interview at 2 o'clock, but if your watch always reads seven past twelve, you will always think you are early and have time to spare, miss your interview, and possibly never get the job. It would be a bad idea to rely on this, he says. At this point you think he's deliberately trying to insult your intelligence so you leave. In another 11 hours and 59 minutes you come back in the middle of the night and point at your watch: it reads 12:07, as do the clocks on the watchmaker's walls. He then says your watch is still broken and won't be able to tell the time in another 52 seconds. He then asks about the other 1436 minutes in the day, saying your watch won't be able to tell you when they are. He says you should just admit your watch is broken and that you need a better way to tell the time; maybe get one of those new digital watches which are far more accurate at telling time than the old analogue-style ones. You tell him no - that he's still wrong - and accuse him of having some agenda to get rid of analogue watches as you storm out of his house into the darkness. While walking back home you notice a sundial in someone's front yard and think to yourself, "now [i]that's[/i] a broken clock".