Klockan gör i källboken ( Peter Pan och Wendy ) Sluta verkligen tippa. Peter förmodar att det är sårat men slår på ruse för att göra det tickande ljudet själv så att rovdjur kommer att tro att han är krokodilen och vara rädd bort: 
  Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our
  noticing for a time that they have happened. Thus, to take an
  instance, we suddenly discover that we have been deaf in one ear for
  we don't know how long, but, say, half an hour. Now such an experience
  had come that night to Peter. When last we saw him he was stealing
  across the island with one finger to his lips and his dagger at the
  ready. He had seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything
  peculiar about it, but by and by he remembered that it had not been
  ticking. At first he thought this eerie, but soon he concluded rightly
  that the clock had run down.
  
  Without giving a thought to what might be the feelings of a
  fellow-creature thus abruptly deprived of its closest
  companion, Peter at once considered how he could turn the catastrophe
  to his own use; and he decided to tick, so that wild beasts should
  believe he was the crocodile and let him pass unmolested. He ticked
  superbly, but with one unforeseen result. The crocodile was among
  those who heard the sound, and it followed him, though whether with
  the purpose of regaining what it had lost, or merely as a friend under
  the belief that it was again ticking itself, will never be certainly
  known, for, like all slaves to a fixed idea, it was a stupid beast.
  
  Peter reached the shore without mishap, and went straight on; his legs
  encountering the water as if quite unaware that they had entered a new
  element. Thus many animals pass from land to water, but no other human
  of whom I know. As he swam he had but one thought: 'Hook or me this
  time.' He had ticked so long that he now went on ticking without
  knowing that he was doing it. Had he known he would have stopped, for
  to board the brig by the help of the tick, though an ingenious idea,
  had not occurred to him.
 När det gäller filmen verkar klockan fortsätta att fungera bara med kraften i filmmagi.