Remodeled clock

It's a little more complicated than that...

I'm fey. This means that the concensus timespace continuum has, at best, a tenuous grip on me. Timekeeping devices in my presence tend to run fast or slow, sometimes alternately; to lose battery or other electrical power rapidly; to change their settings without being commanded to do so; to do inexplicable things not otherwise categorized herein; to devolve into gibberish; and/or to stop working altogether. Often in that order.

I also happen to have a waning but still influential anti-knack for things mechanical. This means that I find it challenging to understand how complicated things work, partly because they tend to display abberant function or nonfunction in my presence, up to and including behavior that people have informed me is impossible. My geek friends who have spent significant time in my company have learned to say instead, "I don't know why it's doing that. It shouldn't be able to do that. Go away and let me see if I can make this thing sane again."

I estimate that the chance of having a working clock at the end of a craft project would be larger if I started with one, than if I tried to assemble one by hand. Not large, you perceive, but larger.

Much of the effect is because magic and electromagnetism are similar forces. In much the same way that a magnet can interfere with a computer, so can magic. Conversely, a technomage has fine control and awareness of the interaction, and can control it for such useful effects as diagnosing an obscure malfunction or even repairing it without resorting to a toolkit.

Theoretically, yes. I could certainly devise one or another way to decorate a disc of paper to be placed behind clock hands. I might be able to find someone with the mechanical aptitude to disassemble and reassemble a clock accordingly.

That's a pretty good idea. I'll have to keep it in mind. It would raise the chance of success quite a bit.