I don't think you're missing anything. It's just Bertie in New York having spooky things happen to him. But I saw a photo of the Mystery Clock in a book and it made me think of this line from Good Omens:
He glanced at his watch, which was designed for the kind of rich deep-sea diver who likes to know what the time is in twenty-one world capitals while he's down there. [It was custom-made for Crowley. Getting just one chip custom-made is incredibly expensive but he could afford it. This watch gave the time in twenty world capitals and in a capital city in Another Place, where it was always one time, and that was Too Late].
So basically somehow Bertie's flat ended up with the 1920's precursor to Crowley's watch, and it only tells time when it's too late [for something].
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Date: 2021-05-06 01:13 pm (UTC)He glanced at his watch, which was designed for the kind of rich deep-sea diver who likes to know what the time is in twenty-one world capitals while he's down there. [It was custom-made for Crowley. Getting just one chip custom-made is incredibly expensive but he could afford it. This watch gave the time in twenty world capitals and in a capital city in Another Place, where it was always one time, and that was Too Late].
So basically somehow Bertie's flat ended up with the 1920's precursor to Crowley's watch, and it only tells time when it's too late [for something].