It would take years to identify all the references in this masterpiece. Here is compilation of information we collected from various sources (namely the Jan Vonhellemont Annotations and the Middlebury Annotations), but remember that there are always more references!
Margarita cracks the glass on her wristwatch by accidentally dropping the box of cream onto it. This symbolizes a distortion of time, or the fourth dimension. In chapter 22, she enters the fifth dimension and midnight strikes over and over again.
