Swatch City did a Sonic Adventure 1 promotion with this really expensive watch. Why did it cost so much? It came with a plastic door sign thing. Is the watch measuring in Beat Time*? Like on Phantasy Star Online? Was this what kicked off the unique time measurement system? The instruction manual would say...

*Beat Time was invented for PSO, which was an international game with an in-game translation helper system so people from everywhere could communicate at least enough to have fun and play. Nothing like it had been invented before (or used since...too bad) but to go with it, they created Beat Time, where every 24 hour day is divided into 1000 beats. This was so that everyone on earth could use the SAME time system and not have to account for time zone confusion. So like, 798 in the afternoon for you, would be evening for someone else. As long as everyone knew WHEN their beats were meet ups could be coordinated. It was actually pretty interesting and a good idea that also seemed to vanish.