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The Watch That Knew the Future
By WristWorthyHub
A mysterious watch. A countdown to death. A loop of fate. Discover the sci-fi story that's reshaping the future — one tick at a time.
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Part I: The Arrival
It was the year 2039, and the majority of humans no longer wore wristwatches. Time was ambient, displayed as holograms, spoken in smart walls' whispers, or implanted into every neural interface. But Elijah Cole wasn't most humans. A former celebrated mechanical watch designer turned loner coder, Elijah now resided in a small, dingy apartment over a retro tech repair store in Old Brooklyn. His days were uneventful, routine—a string of code, coffee, and recollections of a craft the world had abandoned.
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Until the watch came.
It arrived in a simple black box, no shipping tag, no delivery record. Just waiting on his front doorstep like it had sprouted there in the night. Inside, wrapped in velvet, lay an odd device: a smooth band of black alloy, with no apparent buttons, logos, or clasps. Instead of a dial, there was only a smooth surface of obsidian. And then, it flickered to life.
“Wearables with sentient AI have appeared in several tech showcases recently...”
Tomorrow: 9:14 AM.
Elijah gazed at the message for hours. No response, no other information, only the chilling simplicity of the timestamp. He dismissed it. Another gimmick. A publicity stunt. Some new company trying to reinvent time.
But the next morning, at exactly 9:14 AM, a delivery van veered off the road and careened into the front of his go-to coffee shop. The same shop he had gone to. The same shop he had avoided that morning only because he'd slept in.
Elijah couldn't shake it. Coincidence, maybe. But the next message popped up that night.
June 13, 6:27 PM.
He stood on his fire escape, watching as smoke billowed from the windows of 3B at 6:27 dead on. A candle, they claimed. But Elijah wasn't so certain anymore.
“Smartwatches have come a long way — from tools to companions.”
Part II: The Investigation
By week's end, the warnings became a given. Always keeping one step ahead of calamity. A falling sign. A mugging a couple blocks away. A gas leak. He dodged them all. But then the messages were different.
Say Yes to Ava – 10:11 AM
He had received it mere minutes prior to a knock on his door. She was there, clipboard in tow, a volunteer for a local campaign collecting signatures to preserve retro technology. Her name tag said "Ava Lin."
"May I count you in?" she asked, smiling hopefully.
Elijah paused, then recalled the message.
"Yes."
“Researchers are already developing cognitive wearable AI prototypes.”
A friendship began over bitter tea and dusty watch parts shelves. Ava was curious, bold, and somehow sensitive to the enigma of the watch. She didn't laugh when Elijah revealed it to her. Rather, she took a photo and sent it to a person she referred to as "a specialist."
That is how they met Dr. Ryzaa Singh.
Former AI theorist blacklisted for suggesting temporal data could be warped via predictive feedback loops, Ryzaa was intrigued.
"This watch isn't predicting the future," she explained. "It's shaping it. Giving you options to keep you on a certain path. Imagine it as. a quantum GPS for destiny."
She thought it was tied to Elijah—a sort of temporal signature. Taking it out could shatter the loop. But altering it may also cause instability.
Elijah posed the question that had bothered him since the very beginning:
"Who sent me this?"
Ryzaa just gave a grim smile. "Perhaps you did. From a future that is no longer."
Part III: The Descent
The more Elijah abided by the watch, the more bizarre life became. Unpredictable incidents became coincidental. His investments diversified. A patent he had submitted years previously was approved. He and Ava bonded, tied together by curiosity in common and the excitement of forbidden knowledge.
But fortune was not all.
Don't Open the Door – 1:42 PM
“Storing and retrieving human memory digitally is now more real than sci-fi.”
When the moment arrived, he disregarded it. A delivery person was present with a box of vintage timepieces that he had specifically ordered several months earlier. But when he opened the parcel—a bomb. Primitive, little, sufficient to level his workshop. He just managed to escape.
After that, he became paranoid. He slept in shifts. He stopped coding. He started seeing numbers everywhere—timestamps, countdowns, calculations. He began to wonder: Was he even making choices anymore, or just following instructions?
Ava confronted him.
"You’re not living, Eli. You’re just. surviving."
Then the watch gave him a final message:
Your End: June 24, 2:59 PM.
No context. No choice.
He spiralled. Breaking the watch wasn't enough. He pulverized it, incinerated it, hid it in concrete. It kept coming back. Always ticking.
And then, in a grimy old drive in his files, he discovered something worse: a blueprint of the same watch. File created: October 3, 2044.
Designer: Elijah Cole.
He couldn't recall ever creating it. But the signature was his own. The code buried within it—his style, his structure, his fixation.
Part IV: The Choice
June 24 came.
2:55 PM. He was on the roof of his building, the city buzzing beneath him. Ava pleaded with him to run, to fight it. But Elijah remained serene.
"If this thing was created by me," he said, "then perhaps I designed it to kill me. To break the loop."
2:58 PM. He kissed Ava. He gave her a tiny envelope. Inside: the single line of code that would disable the watch.
2:59 PM. He jumped off the ledge.
But instead of plummeting, he disappeared.
Epilogue: Reset
Weeks went by. Ava never discovered his body. The watch was missing.
Until the day a package arrived. Black box. No tag.
Inside: the same watch. Reset. Blank.
It blinked once.
Start: Ava Lin – July 1, 10:00 AM.
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