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A '''fob watch''' was a [[watch]] carried in | {{Wikipediainfo|Pocket watch}} | ||
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A '''pocket watch''', sometimes known as a '''fob watch''', was a [[watch]] carried in one's [[pocket]], frequently worn on [[Earth]] on [[waistcoat]]s and [[jacket]]s during the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian era]]s. | |||
The [[First Doctor| | == The Doctor's pocket watches == | ||
[[ | The [[First Doctor]] wore a watch on a short [[ribbon]] and [[pendant]] fob in his [[beige]] [[tweed]] waistcoats' outer right [[pocket]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]-[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]], [[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]], [[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]], [[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon A Time]]'') At one time in his life, the [[Seventh Doctor]] used this same Hunter watch. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') | ||
The [[Second Doctor]] used a coverless watch on a chain and clip to [[Hypnosis|hypnotise]] [[Vana]] after she exited the [[Kroton (species)|Kroton]] spaceship under conditioning. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Krotons (TV story)|The Krotons]]'') | |||
The [[Third Doctor]] wore a [[gold]] tone fob watch on his [[crimson]] [[velvet]] waistcoat. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'') | |||
The [[Fourth Doctor]] recurrently wore a watch across his waistcoats, with dchain threaded through a buttonhole ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'') or hanging loose. ([[TV]]: ''[[Horror of Fang Rock (TV story)|Horror of Fang Rock]]'') He used it on [[Ribos]] for hypnotic suggestion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'') | |||
The [[Sixth Doctor]] had a silver watch on a silver chain in his coat pocket whilst traversing the infrastructure of [[Space Station Camera]], using it hypnotically on a deranged [[Jamie McCrimmon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'') [[Zoe Heriot]] asked him for it so she could hypnotise herself to keep a [[Cyber-Planner]] out of her head. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Last of the Cybermen (audio story)|Last of the Cybermen]]'') | |||
More commonly, he wore a double-chained pocket watch on one of several styles and colours, held in his outer waistcoat pockets with chain threaded through a buttonhole. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma]]'', ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'') It was gold-tone with an enamel-painted cover. After it too was used in an attempt at hypnosis on [[Necros]], its movement was accidentally broken by [[Peri Brown]], who promised to replace it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'') The Seventh Doctor carried this watch in his [[jacket]]s' outer-left breast pocket, on a silver-tone cord chain clipped to the buttonhole in his lapel. During his travels with [[Ace]], it featured a digital display. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]], [[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'') | |||
At the end of his life, the Seventh Doctor carried a different, silver-tone watch in his waistcoat, its chain looped through a buttonhole, which he kept along with several others. When opened, it revealed a traditional analogue clock face and played subtle music. This watch was stolen along with the Doctor's other possessions by [[Chang Lee]] after the Doctor had apparently been killed, but was later returned to the [[Eighth Doctor]] when Lee and he parted ways. | |||
Shortly after regenerating, the Eighth Doctor acquired a new pocket watch as part of the [[Wild Bill Hickok]] ensemble he took from a hospital locker, wearing it in the same way he had immediately previous. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') He would continue to use a gold pocket watch throughout his life, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Pictures of Josephine Day (comic story)|The Pictures of Josephine Day]], [[A Matter of Life and Death (comic story)|A Matter of Life and Death]], [[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]; [[TV]]: [[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]],'' ) once using it as a communicator to broadcast a video message to the occupants of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Final Chapter (comic story)|The Final Chapter]]'') | |||
The [[War Doctor]] wore a double-chained fob watch of [[bronze]] on his double-breasted waistcoats of [[moleskin]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Clockwise War (comic story)|The Clockwise War]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]''; [[TV]]: [[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]) up to his [[War Doctor's regeneration|death]] after the [[1562]]/[[2013]] [[Zygon invasion of Earth|Zygon Invasion of Earth]] and the [[Fall of Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') | |||
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] owned a fob watch, which he produced to defuse a standoff between [[Captain]] [[Britt]] and the leader of the [[Cei]] in [[1874]]. ([[AUDIO]]: [[The Runaway Train (audio story)|''The Runaway Train'']]) He began to regularly wear a fob watch after going into [[retirement]] and continued wearing it after his return, when he changed his clothing style. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'', ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'') He often wore double-chained fob watch of [[gold]] with a gold "fob" pendant worn fastened to his waistcoats. ([[TV]]: ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]'', ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]], [[Hide (TV story)|Hide]], [[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]], [[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]], [[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]],'' ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') He used a fob watch to lure [[Lepus Warrior]]s through a [[warp gate]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hat Trick (comic story)|The Hat Trick]]'') His successor, the [[Twelfth Doctor]], sold it for a coat. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') | |||
[[The Curator]], a future version of the Doctor, wore a gold fob watch in his Sixth Doctor form. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Artist at the End of Time (audio story)|The Artist at the End of the World]]'') | |||
=== Biodata module === | |||
{{main|Biodata module}} | |||
[[File:Fobwatch1.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor's biodata module ([[TV]]: ''[[The Family of Blood (TV story)|The Family of Blood]]'')]] | |||
The [[biodata module]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Promise (FCBD comic story)|The Promise]]'') was a crucial part of the [[Chameleon Arch]] that often looked like a watch. Biodata modules of this form once held the [[Time Lord]] essences of both the [[Tenth Doctor]] and {{Jacobi}}. Such watches were recognisable, as [[Martha Jones]] learned, by distinctive [[Gallifreyan (language)|Gallifreyan]] script on the obverse. ([[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood (TV story)|The Family of Blood]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') | |||
The [[Ninth Doctor]] once gifted a modified biodata module to his friend Plex, with the purpose of creating a clone race. It would be used in his [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnation]] as proof to said clone race that he was an old friend of Plex's. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Promise (FCBD comic story)|The Promise]]'') | |||
== Other watches == | |||
On meeting [[Jackson Lake]] and seeing his "fob watch", the Tenth Doctor thought that it might be a [[biodata module]]. When the Doctor opened the watch, however, its movement fell out, revealing it as an ordinary watch. [[Scoones|Mr Scoones]], [[Cole (The Next Doctor)|Mr Cole]], [[Fetch (The Next Doctor)|Mr Fetch]] and [[Milligan|Mr Milligan]] wore fob watches with double chains up to their deaths in the [[1851 incident|1851 Incident]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'') | |||
The [[War Master]] wore a bronze fob watch when he used [[Ood]] as his pawns on [[Callous]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Call for the Dead (audio story)|Call for the Dead]], [[The Glittering Prize (audio story)|The Glittering Prize]], [[The Persistence of Dreams (audio story)|The Persistence of Dreams]], [[Sins of the Fathers (audio story)|Sins of the Fathers]]'') | |||
[[Irving Braxiatel]] wore a black waistcoat with a fob watch. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Excelis Rising (audio story)|Excelis Rising]]'') | |||
[[Marcus Scarman]] wore a fob watch on his waistcoat. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'') | |||
[[Banto Zame]] wore a fob watch on his navy waistcoat when posing as the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The One Doctor (audio story)|The One Doctor]]'') | |||
[[Josiah Samuel Smith]] wore a watch with a fob [[pendant]] as part of his [[Victorian era|Victorian]] outfit. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]'') | |||
[[John Riddell]], an [[Edwardian era|Edwardian]] [[Big-game hunting|hunter]], wore a gold fob watch on his beige waistcoat when he met [[Nefertiti|Queen Nefertiti]] and helped rescue [[Dinosaur|dinosaurs]] on a [[Silurian Ark]] during [[2367]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]'') | |||
[[The Toymaker]] wore a fob watch on his single-breasted waistcoat of [[Plum (colour)|plum]] and [[Sapphire (colour)|sapphire]] [[tartan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]'') | |||
[[Reuben Whormby]] wore a fob watch on his waistcoat, right to his death in the [[Fang Rock incident|Fang Rock Incident]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Horror of Fang Rock (TV story)|Horror of Fang Rock]]'') | |||
The [[Dream Lord]] wore a watch on his [[beige]] waistcoat when he taunts the [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]], and [[Rory Williams]] during the beginning of the [[Eknodine]] assault. ([[TV]]: [[Amy's Choice (TV story)|Amy's Choice]]) | |||
A small very well crafted pocket watch belonging to a Mr Harrison of [[Yorkshire]], [[England]] around [[1765]] was part of the symbolic price for the [[loom]] used to make the first [[babel]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') | |||
The [[Half-Face Man]] wore a fob watch during the [[1890s]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') | |||
[[Dorothea Ames]] owned a [[Sekonda]] pocket watch. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did (TV story)|The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* [[Character Options]] made replica [[Tenth Doctor]] fob watches available in their | * The [[Seventh Doctor]]'s digital pocket watch was made from the casing of a common "hunter" style watch and the inner components of a Casio Twin Graph II digital wristwatch.<ref>https://honorarydoctor.livejournal.com/18181.html</ref> | ||
* [[Character Options]] made replica [[Tenth Doctor]] fob watches available in their 2007 [[Character Options toys#Fob Watch|toy range]]. | |||
* A metal version of the Master's Fob watch was released by Wesco and later it was re-released as 50th Anniversary Collectors FOB Watch for the 50th anniversary, with a new clock face. | |||
* A more accurate Prop version of Metal Fob watch was released under the title "Chameleon Arch Pocket Watch" by The Celestial Toystore. | |||
==Footnotes== | |||
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Latest revision as of 02:32, 22 June 2024
A pocket watch, sometimes known as a fob watch, was a watch carried in one's pocket, frequently worn on Earth on waistcoats and jackets during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
The Doctor's pocket watches[[edit] | [edit source]]
The First Doctor wore a watch on a short ribbon and pendant fob in his beige tweed waistcoats' outer right pockets. (TV: An Unearthly Child-The Tenth Planet, The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors, Twice Upon A Time) At one time in his life, the Seventh Doctor used this same Hunter watch. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)
The Second Doctor used a coverless watch on a chain and clip to hypnotise Vana after she exited the Kroton spaceship under conditioning. (TV: The Krotons)
The Third Doctor wore a gold tone fob watch on his crimson velvet waistcoat. (TV: The Green Death)
The Fourth Doctor recurrently wore a watch across his waistcoats, with dchain threaded through a buttonhole (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang) or hanging loose. (TV: Horror of Fang Rock) He used it on Ribos for hypnotic suggestion. (TV: The Ribos Operation)
The Sixth Doctor had a silver watch on a silver chain in his coat pocket whilst traversing the infrastructure of Space Station Camera, using it hypnotically on a deranged Jamie McCrimmon. (TV: The Two Doctors) Zoe Heriot asked him for it so she could hypnotise herself to keep a Cyber-Planner out of her head. (AUDIO: Last of the Cybermen)
More commonly, he wore a double-chained pocket watch on one of several styles and colours, held in his outer waistcoat pockets with chain threaded through a buttonhole. (TV: The Twin Dilemma, The Trial of a Time Lord) It was gold-tone with an enamel-painted cover. After it too was used in an attempt at hypnosis on Necros, its movement was accidentally broken by Peri Brown, who promised to replace it. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks) The Seventh Doctor carried this watch in his jackets' outer-left breast pocket, on a silver-tone cord chain clipped to the buttonhole in his lapel. During his travels with Ace, it featured a digital display. (TV: Silver Nemesis, Survival)
At the end of his life, the Seventh Doctor carried a different, silver-tone watch in his waistcoat, its chain looped through a buttonhole, which he kept along with several others. When opened, it revealed a traditional analogue clock face and played subtle music. This watch was stolen along with the Doctor's other possessions by Chang Lee after the Doctor had apparently been killed, but was later returned to the Eighth Doctor when Lee and he parted ways.
Shortly after regenerating, the Eighth Doctor acquired a new pocket watch as part of the Wild Bill Hickok ensemble he took from a hospital locker, wearing it in the same way he had immediately previous. (TV: Doctor Who) He would continue to use a gold pocket watch throughout his life, (COMIC: The Pictures of Josephine Day, A Matter of Life and Death, The Lost Dimension; TV: The Night of the Doctor, ) once using it as a communicator to broadcast a video message to the occupants of his TARDIS. (COMIC: The Final Chapter)
The War Doctor wore a double-chained fob watch of bronze on his double-breasted waistcoats of moleskin. (COMIC: The Clockwise War; PROSE: Engines of War; TV: The Name of the Doctor) up to his death after the 1562/2013 Zygon Invasion of Earth and the Fall of Gallifrey. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
The Eleventh Doctor owned a fob watch, which he produced to defuse a standoff between Captain Britt and the leader of the Cei in 1874. (AUDIO: The Runaway Train) He began to regularly wear a fob watch after going into retirement and continued wearing it after his return, when he changed his clothing style. (TV: The Snowmen, The Bells of Saint John) He often wore double-chained fob watch of gold with a gold "fob" pendant worn fastened to his waistcoats. (TV: (TV: The Rings of Akhaten, Cold War, Hide, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, Nightmare in Silver, The Name of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor, The Time of the Doctor) He used a fob watch to lure Lepus Warriors through a warp gate. (COMIC: The Hat Trick) His successor, the Twelfth Doctor, sold it for a coat. (TV: Deep Breath)
The Curator, a future version of the Doctor, wore a gold fob watch in his Sixth Doctor form. (AUDIO: The Artist at the End of the World)
Biodata module[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Biodata module
The biodata module (COMIC: The Promise) was a crucial part of the Chameleon Arch that often looked like a watch. Biodata modules of this form once held the Time Lord essences of both the Tenth Doctor and the War Master. Such watches were recognisable, as Martha Jones learned, by distinctive Gallifreyan script on the obverse. (TV: Human Nature / The Family of Blood, Utopia)
The Ninth Doctor once gifted a modified biodata module to his friend Plex, with the purpose of creating a clone race. It would be used in his twelfth incarnation as proof to said clone race that he was an old friend of Plex's. (COMIC: The Promise)
Other watches[[edit] | [edit source]]
On meeting Jackson Lake and seeing his "fob watch", the Tenth Doctor thought that it might be a biodata module. When the Doctor opened the watch, however, its movement fell out, revealing it as an ordinary watch. Mr Scoones, Mr Cole, Mr Fetch and Mr Milligan wore fob watches with double chains up to their deaths in the 1851 Incident. (TV: The Next Doctor)
The War Master wore a bronze fob watch when he used Ood as his pawns on Callous. (AUDIO: Call for the Dead, The Glittering Prize, The Persistence of Dreams, Sins of the Fathers)
Irving Braxiatel wore a black waistcoat with a fob watch. (AUDIO: Excelis Rising)
Marcus Scarman wore a fob watch on his waistcoat. (TV: Pyramids of Mars)
Banto Zame wore a fob watch on his navy waistcoat when posing as the Doctor. (AUDIO: The One Doctor)
Josiah Samuel Smith wore a watch with a fob pendant as part of his Victorian outfit. (TV: Ghost Light)
John Riddell, an Edwardian hunter, wore a gold fob watch on his beige waistcoat when he met Queen Nefertiti and helped rescue dinosaurs on a Silurian Ark during 2367. (TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
The Toymaker wore a fob watch on his single-breasted waistcoat of plum and sapphire tartan. (TV: The Giggle)
Reuben Whormby wore a fob watch on his waistcoat, right to his death in the Fang Rock Incident. (TV: Horror of Fang Rock)
The Dream Lord wore a watch on his beige waistcoat when he taunts the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, and Rory Williams during the beginning of the Eknodine assault. (TV: Amy's Choice)
A small very well crafted pocket watch belonging to a Mr Harrison of Yorkshire, England around 1765 was part of the symbolic price for the loom used to make the first babels. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
The Half-Face Man wore a fob watch during the 1890s. (TV: Deep Breath)
Dorothea Ames owned a Sekonda pocket watch. (TV: The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Seventh Doctor's digital pocket watch was made from the casing of a common "hunter" style watch and the inner components of a Casio Twin Graph II digital wristwatch.[1]
- Character Options made replica Tenth Doctor fob watches available in their 2007 toy range.
- A metal version of the Master's Fob watch was released by Wesco and later it was re-released as 50th Anniversary Collectors FOB Watch for the 50th anniversary, with a new clock face.
- A more accurate Prop version of Metal Fob watch was released under the title "Chameleon Arch Pocket Watch" by The Celestial Toystore.
