Stull System III by Collectors’ Workshop

Stull Prediction with the Modern Touch

Rich Bloch of Collectors’ Workshop introduced an award winning effect back in 1979 called “Stull Watch Outdone” using a modern digital travel alarm clock. As CW was perhaps an idea to be born, this item was released through Tannen’s. With CW coming into the picture in the mid 1980’s, this best seller was modified and improved. It was renamed Stull System III in their first full catalog(1987).

The effect is the usual Stull prediction. An innocent looking digital travel alarm clock(Radio Shack) is introduced and shown the two buttons to change the hour and the minutes. Next, a prediction is introduced and set aside in full view. A handsome hard leather case is shown and the clock inserted into it. There is an opening for the buttons and a flap to view the screen. Again the controls are shown to change the time. The flap is made to cover the screen and the spectator starts playing with the buttons to randomly set an unknown time. As you would expect the clock is removed from the case and the time matches your prediction. Once the clock is inserted in the case, the performer never needs to handle the clock again.

Great effect and one of the most practical effects released from Collectors’ Workshop. One problem..this was discontinued many years ago( I bought this item in the late 1980’s). Unless George Robinson decides to reintroduce this little gem, it’s now highly collectible, a beautiful item from the early CW years.

Effect: 1979 was an extraordinary year for magic: a wholly new concept surfaced in the form of what was then called the Stull Watch Outdone. It was the original Stull prediction watch effect -spectator and magician exchange watches, each sets the other’s timepiece, they match- but it was issued in an exciting, modern variation, a digital travel alarm.And if the effect was traditional, the modus operandi was not.

Indeed, it was one of the most inspired innovations ever introduced in the magic world.Collectors’ Workshop was then just a gleam in the founder’s eyes. Thus, the original Stull Watch Outdone. The effect won prizes and saw its way into no less than 23 countries. Since then, the worldwide list of owners has expanded, as has CW, and the original effect has been modified and improved.

Stull System III is, perhaps, the single most usable piece of magic apparatus in our catalogue. It is ideal for closeup or stage and particularly good for television work. You carry it with you in a handsome leather case. And, when you are traveling, it sits quietly on your night table as the perfect functioning clock. The sole complaint you will have (as others have had) is that we released it to others in the magic fraternity.

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