[Pocket sized recorders? Oh that's quite a feat. Even the ones in Rapture were the size of a large textbook and she'd found those compact enough to be appealing. She listens intently as Ace leads them out into the neon promenade and watches the girl dart ahead and gesture at screens.]

Have you looked at any clocks?

[She's not being snide, that's just her voice.]

I find the expensive sort usually have an embedded date. The gears are difficult to make and to set, so they serve well as a status symbol regardless of the current year.

So long as that year has clockwork...I presume this one does?

[But it would be fascinating if it didn't.]