More eyes would turn to the clock than any other object. Time is also our enemy, perhaps our greatest. A dictator can escape the bullet of an assassin, but not the bullet of time, eventually they succumb. Some instances time seems to play no part, instances like war, plague, or famine. They just seem to erupt, with no rhyme or reason.
Time is more sinister than that, it plans and plots.
It scours for victims. This is the same force that has brought down civilizations, it kills our young, vibrant bodies. Time is capable of such dealings. In a single moment time grew tired of our civilization. It had been pondering over this moment for many eons.