Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride (2016)

Brian Sweany's 2016 coming-of-age novel follows Hank Fitzpatrick through an Indiana adolescence of drink, sex and Catholic guilt, the death of his father John and a secret about his uncle Mitch. Mitch turns up uninvited outside the church on Hank's wedding day. (Open Library)

Watches

Tissot (unidentified model): Mitch asks for forgiveness and gets a punch in the nose. As Hank raises his fist again, Mitch presses something into his palm: a familiar gold Tissot on a brown alligator strap, his father's watch, which Hank's mother gave Mitch when John died. Hank takes it and walks away without a word. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: It's a familiar gold Tissot watch with a brown alligator leather band. My father's watch. (Brian Sweany, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride, scan cataloged as Rare Bird Books, 2016, p. 339; the narrator's and his father's names are on pp. 8 to 9; Internet Archive scan OCR)