Machowski's Watch — Eric Kent Edstrom

When a brash and egotistical young Silicon Valley executive buys a famous tech mogul's Rolex watch, he thinks he's reached the pinnacle of achievement. But when the watch takes control of his body, he discovers his dead hero has one last lesson to teach.

Machowski's Watch is a short story first published in Fiction River: Haunted, edited by Kerrie L. Hughes.