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oralroberts Special user South Africa 930 Posts 
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Hi guys,
Doing a little research on "The Watch Steal"....was wondering if anyone could give me references/history sources for it. How far back does it date? First performed? First published? Literature on it? Much appreciated! |
george1953 Inner circle Mallorca (Spain) 5943 Posts
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No idea sorry, but just wanted to say that the watch steal has been part of my act for as long as I can remember, but lately I have found that fewer and fewer wear watches these days. Has anyone else noticed this.
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LeoH Elite user 437 Posts
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Most people carry cell phones that have the time - it's unnecessary to wear a watch.
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oralroberts Special user South Africa 930 Posts
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On Apr 30, 2014, LeoH wrote: You'd be surprised by how many people still wear a watch; and, it makes it all the more impressive when you do steal it 
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Todd Robbins V.I.P. New York 2922 Posts
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The wearing of wristwatches came into fashion around WW1. I would assume that someone started stealing them soon thereafter. Francis Carlyle did a watch steal back in the 1940s. Whit Haydn reintroduced the watch steal to the magic community back in the 1970s.
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Pop Haydn Inner circle Los Angeles 3695 Posts
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I was taught by Brian Gillis, who learned the Carlyle steal I believe from Karl Norman. Later Jason Randall taught me the one handed steal which he had developed independently, which was identical to one Ricky Dunn used. Ricky was very mad when he found out that I taught it to Michael Finney who eventually published it on a teaching video.
I used it as part of my walk around and bar magic, combining it with the Ring Flite and Watch in Envelope: |
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gregg webb Inner circle 1564 Posts
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So, we need to figure out how to steal cell phones. The real reason I posted was that there was a time you could tell when a pickpocket act was fake because they would steal the whole shirt at the end. But, at that time the act doing the real work was Dominique, a french act I think. My guess is he was the first guy really doing the work. Finally, to practice, I am reminded of the School of a Thousand Bells in Bogota' Colombia, where they had a dummy with tiny bells sewn on the costume on the dummy, to practice on.
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Pop Haydn Inner circle Los Angeles 3695 Posts
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On Apr 12, 2021, gregg webb wrote: The School of the Seven Bells. It is probably myth. The same story has been told of ninja's. Ricki Dunn did the shirt steal, but all his pick-pocketing was legit. Cell phones are stolen just like a wallet. There is many a slip between the stall and the dip... |
Posted: Apr 26, 2014 11:47 am 