Watch
A watch in dreams often speaks to anxiety about time itself — how much remains, whether you're using it well, the feeling of racing against or losing track of it. What appears as broken mechanics or misplaced hours may simply be your psyche asking whether you're living at your own pace or someone else's.
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See what’s rising tonight →What the old dream-books say
These are the entries the historical dream-books record for watch, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of a watch, denotes you will be prosperous in well-directed speculations. To look at the time of one, your efforts will be defeated by rivalry. To break one, there will be distress and loss menacing you.
To drop the crystal of one, foretells carelessness, or unpleasant companionship. For a woman to lose one, signifies domestic disturbances will produce unhappiness. To imagine you steal one, you will have a violent enemy who will attack your reputation.
To make a present of one, denotes you will suffer your interest to decline in the pursuance of undignified recreations.
Fontaine, 1862
If you dream of buying a gold watch, it is a sign of poverty; but if you imagine that you are presented with one, it foretells good luck and money-getting: to dream of losing your gold watch is also a good omen, as it denotes success in business.