Well, I mean, to be fair, the stories are riddled with anachronisms, some intentional, and I'm sure a ton of others I didn't even realize I was committing. I just happen to have thought of that little touch and ran with it.

I'm sure it helps, in terms of having thought of it, that my first wristwatch was a mechanical one (Timex Easy Reader, represent), so the whole phenomenon of having to wind up a watch is one that's been sort of ingrained in me since I was old enough to understand what a watch even is. Quartz watches were still super-expensive toys for the wealthy when I was little; they didn't become cheap and ubiquitous until I was in my teens. So it's an anachronism today, but it's one that has continuity for me, and that made it relatively easy to slip into a story like that.

Honestly, the toughest thing to keep in mind throughout the process of writing Gothic is that there's no electricity. Especially in the segments where Gryphon's doing carpentry, I kept nearly showing him using power tools, and at least once attempted to show him and Remi listening to the radio (which would doubly not work). :)

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