Vintage Pocket Watch on a Book by Hall Groat II, represents Montag’s moment of discovery when meeting Clarisse till reading the first book; in parallel, it transmit to the viewer the same daring feeling of going for the unknown, against the rules of context and time as Montag did. The book and it’s knowledge is lying in a table wafting to be open, with the clock on top as a reminder of the limits one has; nonetheless, Montag is capable of choosing between obeying rules or grab the clock and open the book. This image in specific has a very dream-like atmosphere, as it represents the possibility of doing what once was considered irrational and impossible. Montag’s moment of understanding through the first part starts with fear and confusion, until it becomes interesting and desirable. This feeling is captured by Vintage Pocket Watch on a Book with the use of cold dark tones in the background and an slightly cold yellow of the clock, that are later slashed by the warm sizzling red of the book, as this last gives to the image the same comfortable that Clarisse gave to Montag with her tenderness and curiosity. On the other aspect, the cold background is a simile between the gloom of not only the city but Montag’s house too, even Mildred’s mesmerizing melancholy can be found there, with a watercolour like brush technique that binds all this elements that Montag is still incapable to perceive in the beginning of the book. It is the irony of Montag’s sin, being alive: a yellow clock, a technological artefact crafted by humans that pout limits to its own creator, and a red book, one that only let us see a half, tempting us to open it and read all its human secrets even if it represents a sin – but, can it be a sin to go against humanity? Against it’s knowledge and passions? Indeed, Montag’s conflict in the first part of the book. This text targets everyone since we are analyzing it keeping in mind “Fahrenheit 451”. 451 tar