1. THE FLYING WATCH
Effect. The magician borrows a watch; wraps it in a piece of colored tissue paper, and puts the packet in the outside breast pocket of his coat, leaving the ends of the paper visible. He borrows a hat and gives it to a spectator to hold above his head amongst the audience. Returning to his place, he takes the package from his pocket and orders the watch to fly to the hat. He tears the tissue to pieces, the watch has vanished, and the spectator finds it in the hat.
Method. One watch only is used, a borrowed one. The trick lies in the performer’s coat; the pocket into which the watch packet is placed is slit at the bottom and a long cloth tube is sewn to it. The tube is then stitched to the lining of the coat and carried back and down to the tail on the same side, ending inside a pocket there. When the magician places the tissue packet in his coat he squeezes it, breaking the paper just below the watch so that it slides down into the pocket, then into the tube, finally into the tail pocket, While the ends of the tissue paper remain in full view above the opening of the outer breast pocket.
In going for the hat, the magician has ample opportunity for getting the watch into his hand. He takes the hat in the same hand, his fingers covering the watch as he shows the inside, and makes some remark about the maker of the hat. He hands it to another spectator to hold high above his head with both hands—crown downwards, of course. The rest follows.
This is an excellent opening trick and never fails to score. The same tube arrangement can be adapted to ordinary suits by using an upper vest pocket to receive the packet and carrying the tube down to the trousers pocket.
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