( CNN ) -- It cuts through plastic ! It burns holes in walls ! It ... tells time ? Like something out of a James Bond film , it 's a watch -- equipped with a laser . Its inventor , Patrick Priebe , built it during downtime from his full-time gig creating props and modestly describes it as a `` tiny watch made of garbage . '' Still , Priebe 's laser watch has attracted its share of attention for being an entertaining , if mildly dangerous , bit of technology . ( It will burn skin if the wearer is n't careful . ) On a YouTube video , the German tinkerer activates the laser and pops a handful of balloons , lights a few matches and burns through a compact-disc case . The video has picked up more than 700,000 views since Priebe posted it five days ago -- not bad , though not as much as his Spider-Man `` Webshooter '' ( 2.1 million views ) or his laser cannon prototype ( 1.3 million ) . Priebe , who runs a firm called Laser Gadgets , said he made the watch out of `` leftovers . '' `` I found a piece of leftover tubing , and I put it on my wrist and I realized it looked like a watch already , '' he said from his home near Cologne . After molding the tubing a bit more , `` all I had to do was file down the edges to make the time module fit and cut something out for the laser module on the side , and it fit right away . It 's just my style , putting things together without a plan . '' The laser watch has been compared to a James Bond device , but Priebe says it was n't inspired by a particular Bond film -- not even `` Goldfinger , '' with its famous scene of the villain aiming a laser at Bond 's crotch . Instead , it was a Nintendo game of `` GoldenEye , '' the video game based on the 1995 Pierce Brosnan Bond movie . `` I 'm not really a Bond fan , '' Priebe said , admitting that he prefers science fiction . Priebe , a former lab technician , is a now a full-time prop builder who 's constructed pieces for the TV show `` Warehouse 13 , '' among other projects . He also makes money from YouTube views and been caught off-guard by the interest in the laser watch . He likes to personally answer YouTube comments and e-mail queries , and has gotten backed up with both . Incidentally , if you 're interested in buying the watch -- you budding Dr . Evil , you -- too bad . It 's not for sale , Priebe says . `` There are some limits , '' he said . `` I always say I do n't make weapons . I just make toys . ''
Inventor attaches laser module to a timepiece . - The inventor creates an object that can be used as a weapon, but is not designed for it. Creator Patrick Priebe makes props for a living , did watch on downtime .