The First-Lie Watch
This palm-sized pocket watch has a blackened silver case etched with tiny overlapping keyholes. Its face is made from cloudy blue glass, beneath which three brass hands circle a dial marked not with numbers but with closed eyes. A thin chain of tarnished silver ends in a miniature bell, though the watch never rings. Its ticking is ordinarily soft and steady, but around a lie it becomes a rapid, unmistakable clatter, as though something trapped inside were trying to escape.
Lore
The watch was supposedly made by Elian Voss, a royal clockmaker whose only child vanished after accusing a beloved prince of treason. Voss spent twelve years building a mechanism that could distinguish deceit from ignorance. When he finally presented it to the court, the watch ticked beside every noble present before going silent forever around the prince. No record explains what the prince had said, but the kingdom fell into civil war within the month.
History
The First-Lie Watch has passed through inquisitors, merchant princes, spies, and suspicious spouses. Several owners mistakenly believed it could expose every falsehood and were ruined when it remained silent around practiced liars who had already triggered its mechanism. The current watch was recovered from a sealed clock tower whose walls were covered with thousands of names, each crossed out exactly once.
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