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I am a huge admirer of Salvador Dali, and wondered if it would be possible (outside of hypnosis) to create a melting watch effect.

I know it sounds impossible, and I can't think of any methods from PKMB that would translate all that well, but then again, most of you guys go around and do things that I would also think impossible.

Well.. I'm probably being unrealistic.

Make one out of wax and warm it up somehow at the right time? No pun intended there !

some kind of wax coated shell on the back of watch would be interesting, you'd just need to work out a heat-source without anyone being aware...but then again, body heat and or lights should be enough i suppose....

wax mixed in with silver acrylic paint should be ok...

and mixing it all in with your fingers "smoking" too as you heated up the watch...lots of methods for that too...that might work visually...

Sugar watch?

Ted wrote:Sugar watch?

i am darling...what are you doing?

IAIN wrote:

Ted wrote:Sugar watch?

i am darling...what are you doing?

Melting.

And all of a sudden it sounds very possible.

Thanks for the input.

when you say melting watch, do you mean disolving, as most of the sugestions above indicate, or a watch that goes soft and floppy.

if you want a watch that goes soft, the standard move favoured by Robert Houdin, and is published in Modern magic, will help.

Its more popular these days, as an impromptu bendy coin effect. But it was first created to show a pocket watch bending.

now, using the well known move, and then switching the watch for a rubber one, gives you the effect your after, assuming that you can get a rubber watch that looks the same as an ordinary one.

the chances of finding a rubber, flexible watch that matches a real one are ridiculously slim though arent they?

I mean dissolving or melting away. Like a piece of wax, actually

you can get chocolate fobb watches.

IAIN wrote:the chances of finding a rubber, flexible watch that matches a real one are ridiculously slim though arent they?

you would have to construct one.. or get your friendly neighborhood Tom Lauten to do it for you

You could try a low melting point alloy (http://www.lowden-metals.co.uk/lowmelting/Lowlink.html)
Eg Fields Metal which melts, I think, at about 60*C.

You could easily build a cast from silicone which you can buy from a hobby shop and you could cast your watch in the oven.

OK, the watch may not exactly work as a watch, but you could perhaps, embed a digital display there and then melt it with a hair dryer or perhaps hot water: you could drop the watch into the water and have it dissolve if you wanted before the spectator's very eyes ... Fields Metal would pass casual inspection.


You might be able to do some sort of "impossible escape" routine with a toroidal ingot

Alternatively, two plastic watches, a blow torch and a quick swap.

aporia wrote:two plastic watches, a blow torch and a quick swap.

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