Blackfeathers

Item #: SCP-4188 - Golden Pocket Watch

Object Class: Safe - Mind/Time Affecting SCP

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4188 is to be kept inside an opaque soundproof box stored in a vault inside site-██ guarded by no fewer than two (2) armed personnel with Level 3 clearance when not undergoing testing. Item is to be removed from containment only with the written permission of personnel with Level 4 clearance or higher.
-Any personell around 10 meter radius of SCP-4188 are not allowed to check the time at any given moment (except for testing subjects specifically ordered to do so).
-When SCP-4188 is outside it's containment box, all personel not designed for testing must avoid visual contact with the object, and wear hearing protection device when close to it.
-Any personell exposed to SCP-4188 in any way, not following these procedures are to be detained and observed for a period of two days after been given strong amnestics, if the subject still shows simptoms of SCP-4188's primary or secondary effects, subject must be terminated.

Description: SCP-4188 appears to be a golden decorated pocket watch with Roman numerals for numbers with seemingly no distinctions from a common pocketwatch. SCP-4188's frame is composed of msteel with gold plating, and further inspection or dissasembly of SCP-4188 is avoided due to it's nature.
The watch will always show precise timing according to the region's timezone and requires no powersource to function properly.
SCP-4188 known effects:
-when used to check the time, the passage of time is accelerated and/or not noticed by anyone purposefully observing the time, including any clock or cronometer.
Testing has shown that the more worried someone is about the time, the more time passes.
For SCP-4188 effect's on a subject's mind, see testing logs

Addendum.1: SCP-4188 was recovered at 05/07/████ by the London Police from a civilian named █████ ████ who robbed Mr.█████, the owner of SCP-4188 at the time, who reported the crime to the police, demanding them to recover the item. After several attempts to calm him down, Mr.█████ became agressive and was detained.
He kept telling the police they should do their jobs, shouting in his cell for several minutes.
The criminal was found and detained the next day in posession of the object.
█████ in his cell awaiting judgement, demanded to see the item he robbed, when asked why, he would say 'I need to see the time', when the policeman pointed to a normal clock he ignored it.
The officer reported listening to him mumbling nonsense such as 'the clock is ticking' and 'time is running out', from his cell, later saying he would hear the same things from Mr.█████'s cell.
Both had no records of any mental illness.
Mr.█████ reported that the item had been in his family for nearly two centuries.
SPC personell ministered amnestics to both of them, although the obsession from █████ ████ insisted. He was taken to site-██ along with SCP-4188 for research and testing as class D personell (subject classified as D-████) (see Test log A).

Test log A:
Item: SCP-4188
Procedure: D-2413 Is allowed to mannipulate SCP-4188, after several demands for the item.
Results: D-2413 is presented with a box. As if he knew what was inside of it, D-2413 opens the box and immediatly reaches for SCP-4188, opening it's case expressing relief after checking the time on the watch.
The obsession for the item reported from both individuals previously exposed to SCP-4188 were observed as a mental effect from 4188.
Notes: After checking the Test entry, the researcher noticed something wrong with the time entry: It was a quick test, meant to observe anything unusual concerning the item due to no solid evidence of any anomalous effects. The test was expected to last 15 minutes, the entry of the test log reported it starting at 9:17 am and finishing at 10:11am. The test took exactly 54 minutes to be performed, during wich every researcher and guards around the area perceived the time passage as being short during the process.
The time log was deemed as mere typing mistake.

Test log B:
Item: SCP-4188
Procedure: D-2413 and D-3112 wold enter the test chamber, where SCP-4188 wold be inside a pedestal in the middle of the room, inside a resistant transparent glass dome.
Results: D-2413 quickly examined the pedestal, trying to find a way to get the pocket watch out of the dome, getting frustrated after several failed attempts. D-3112 showed interest to the item, examining it for several minutes. After 10 minutes, both started to express anxiety, and D-2413 demanded for the item to be taken out of the glass.
D-2413 being neglected acess to 4188, tried to break the glass, punching it, while D-3112 was sitting in the corner of the room staring into nothingness, both expressed increased amounts of stress over the time.
After 23 minutes of testing, both were sitting covering their ears, when questioned, D-3112 reported listening to the clock ticking intensely, saying: "-Make it stop" and "-We're running out of time".
Notes: D-3112 has never been previously exposed to SCP-4188, the Watch affects people around it regardless of the person checking the time on the item, of having contact with it.
Subjects express an urge to see the time on 4188, showing no interest on any other watch.
Due to the effects obseved on this test, every foundation personell are not permitted direct contact with 4188, or indirect contect for more than 10 minutes.

Addendum.2: Further experiments showed inconsistencies on the time entries, experiments were taking longer than they should, and any process of transporting it and manipulating the item took a long time despite nobody around it noticing it.
Researchers theorized the possibility of SCP-4188 somehow consuming time around it.
The urge it creates on people to check the time might be a way to make them using it, activating it's effect.
The motivation for such effects are unknown, and further experimenting is required.