The Pocket Watch

Item from The Dollars Trilogy by Sergio Leone / United Artists

Two identical pocket watches — one carried by El Indio, one by Colonel Mortimer — that tell the same story from opposite sides.

Also known as: The Pocket Watch, The Watch, The Musical Watch

What They Know

• El Indio plays its music before every duel — it is both compulsion and ritual
• Mortimer's identical watch contains his dead sister's photograph — the same woman El Indio destroyed
• Manco uses a third identical watch to distract El Indio at the crucial moment
• The music it plays is the emotional signature of For a Few Dollars More

Connections

• created_by — el_indio
• ally_of — colonel_mortimer

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