In RealLife, if you take two clocks at random the chances that
they show the exact same time are fairly low unless someone's
taking care of keeping them in sync.  In fiction, however, every
clock and/or watch shows the exact same time of day. Always. All
miserable cheapo wrist watches and all cell phones and street
clocks run in harmonious synchrony with the precision of an
atomic clock. Sometimes used for dramatic effect by highlighting
the improbable, often significant timing of an event, or the
fact that two remote, seemingly unrelated events happened at the
same time. Normally fueled by ConservationOfDetail. Nothing to
do with {{Mirror Routine}}s or FearfulSymmetry.  [[folder: Anime
And Manga ]]  * One arc of ''DetectiveConan'' took place in a
house with hundreds of clocks, all of which showed the exact
same time - because the owner of the house kept a team of clock
repairmen on call 24/7 to ensure that this was the case. One of
her previous employees died because she made the man climb the
outside of the