Dalí became obsessed with the flow of time and portrays te clock as soft, a type of symbolism he reserved for those objects he loathed. The soft watch liquefies lamentably over the tree forming a double image. Tilting ones head to the left a hidden image appears; the clock face changes into the artist profile, an eye, a pointed nose and the 9 suggestive of Dalí’s moustache. Dalí’s enjoyed surprising people and encouraged them to participate in his art

The shape of the limp clock immediately recalls Dalí’s 1929 work The Great Masturbator, a self-portrait with a distorted long head in profile looking downward. Dalí enjoyed rotating images, experimenting with melleability; he manipulated and mutated everyday objects to disrupt reality, blurring the boundaries between the unconscious and conscious. The melting clock evokes sensation of timelessness found in the dream world, the watch is fluid. almost sinuous and the time becomes meaningless.