Daddy's Girls (2006)

Tasmina Perry's novel, originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins in 2006, follows the four daughters of Lord Oswald Balcon: Venetia, an interior designer in a loveless marriage; Camilla, a rising political star; Cate, who is launching a magazine; and Serena. When their father turns up dead, the sisters face an accusation of murder and a thirty-year-old family secret. (Open Library)

Watches

Cartier Tank: Cate waits in a corner of The Flask, the pub on the edge of Highgate's green, sipping white wine and pretending to read a leaflet. It is half past nine on a Sunday night and Nick Douglas has still not arrived. She glances at the Cartier Tank on her wrist and considers going home, since she usually gives up waiting for people at half an hour. The text names the Tank and no model within the line.

Source text: She glanced at the Cartier Tank watch on her wrist and considered going home. (Tasmina Perry, Daddy's Girls, scan cataloged as Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 2008, whose copyright page gives first publication in Great Britain by HarperCollins in 2006, p. 93; Internet Archive scan OCR)

Cartier (unidentified model): At a party, Jennifer Watchorn sidles up to Camilla and Serena Balcon as they come back into the ballroom, and glances down at her diamond-encrusted Cartier watch to remind them that the fireworks are fifteen minutes off. The novel opens with the Balcon sisters glancing at their own watches, "Cartier, Rolex, Patek Philippe", while they wait for a visitor after their father's death (p. 3), without saying which sister wears which. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: Jennifer glanced down at her diamond-encrusted Cartier watch. (Tasmina Perry, Daddy's Girls, scan cataloged as Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 2008, whose copyright page gives first publication in Great Britain by HarperCollins in 2006, p. 379; she is named in full on p. 378; Internet Archive scan OCR)