Clocks And Time Machines

Clocks are machines that measure time and chronometers are more accurate clocks so clocks and chronometers could have been called "time machines" except that, thanks to HG Wells, that phrase means a chronomobile - to coin a new term. Sf writers should be able to link familiar clocks to unfamiliar time machines:

a film adaptation of The Time Machine begins with many ticking clocks;

the Doctor Who villain, the Master, had a space-time vehicle that was disguised as a grandfather clock;

decades ago, a comic book villain dismantled several clocks and reassembled some of their parts into an intertemporal communicator to summon help from the future, as if time was a medium that was detected by timepieces and that could be modulated to carry a message;

Tourmalin's Time Cheques by F. Anstey involves time travelling by leaving a cheque behind a clock (I think);

"What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people."

-Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (London, 1977), p. 103;

when Jack Havig has discussed the significance of time travel:

"Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river."

-Poul Anderson, There Will Be Time (New York, 1973), XVI, p. 175.