This was 11 year old me's mad scientist movie plot idea. I imagined a Lex Luthor type of character who had quietly bought a majority of the world's clock, watch

This was 11 year old me's mad scientist movie plot idea. I imagined a Lex Luthor type of character who had quietly bought a majority of the world's clock, watch and calendar manufacturers, and was going to use hundreds of enormous rocket engines buried in the Himalayas and rockies to slow the Earth down, not stop it, by only one second a day. Just enough to throw off all of the time keeping devices on Earth and require everyone to buy brand new ones. from him.