Experiments with Chronomancy

The classes this year have really inspired my ability to create new spells. I finally feel like I'm catching up to Kraius in terms of the level of spell I can utilize. While flipping through old notes, I found a draft of Lexali's report for the project I helped her with last year, and it got me thinking, can I reproduce Chronomantic effects? How hard can it be?
 
I pulled out an old pocket watch that I disabled (deliberately! I didn't break it, I just didn't want to risk the ticking bothering anyone) and started implanting a spell matrix into it, based on the notes I had. Actually, the first thing I did was modify it so it wouldn't tick when running. When I started studying the kind of matrix involved, it soon became obvious that this wouldn't be simple. The energies involved were completely different, and much harder to replicate. The energy that would come out of the transformers was unstable, not in a dangerous way, but in a way that made it difficult to utilize reliably. Still, I thought it best if I added a fail safe to the matrix, if the energy flow were to ever become too unstable, it would cut the flow. As for the unstable output, maybe that could be useful somehow? I needed to see what effect it would even have. I infused a basic contact energy projector into the watch so it would only affect someone holding the watch, and since (as I'd recently learned) the items I'd been infusing spells into only work with my magical energy, that meant it would only ever affect me.
 
When I was done, I ask Kraius to observe the test with Detect Magic. I held down a button on the watch and channeled magic into it. The motion of the watch hands started to become erratic: 3 seconds forward, 2 seconds back. The average passage of time was still the same, but it was no longer smooth. When I looked up Kraius, his head was cocked to the side. He told me to try moving around. I took a step forward, waved my hand around, pretended to bob and weave in place like I'd seen people doing when they were practicing dodging. Everything felt and looked normal to me, but Kraius said that I was jumping around, it reminded him of the Blur spell. I released the button and the effect ended. Kraius confirmed that there were no residual energies around me, and said that the watch appeared safe to use, but that I should maybe stick with illusion magic to cast that spell.