Mark Ruffalo wears an unidentified watch

Late in Now You See Me 2, Walter Mabry and Arthur Tressler lock Dylan Rhodes inside a safe and lower it into the water, staging the exact death that took his father. Mark Ruffalo plays Dylan, the FBI agent who spends two films secretly steering the Four Horsemen and turns out to be the son of Lionel Shrike, a magician who drowned in 1984 when a cheap safe warped shut around him during an underwater escape. The trap works on the father. It fails on the son, because Dylan is wearing Lionel's watch, and the watch hides a lock pick.

The watch is a prop, built for the production and sold by Propstore in 2018 with a certificate of authenticity. By their account this example is the one from the scenes at Iong's magic shop, and it left the shoot with minimal wear: a stainless steel quartz chronograph on a brown leather strap, three registers on a champagne dial under a black timing bezel, water resistant to a hundred meters according to the engraving on the back. The brand on the dial is the trick. It reads EPACSE, which is ESCAPE reversed, and the caseback is engraved backward too, stainless steel and Japan movement and all, so the writing resolves into plain English only in a mirror. The film is called Now You See Me.

Propstore lists the watch as containing electronic components. Late in the film Thaddeus Bradley, the partner Lionel trusted, admits he had always known it could open the safe. The pick inside his father's watch lifts Dylan out of the water, and the escape that killed Lionel Shrike is the one that saves his son.