His bracelet must be a clock, she realized. The train conductors had pocket watches, but everypony else usually relied on the sun to tell them the time. She’d heard that Appeloosa had built a clock on a tower, so that everypony would know what time it was, but rumor had it that the buffalo had knocked it over. There was some talk about getting a tower for the Ponyville school, although a recent spate of construction disasters had given the anti-progressives more fodder at the monthly town planning meetings, and thus the clock tower was on hold for the foreseeable future.