Dead Man's Time (2013)

Peter James's ninth Roy Grace novel sends the Brighton detective after the gang that tortured an elderly woman for her antiques, chief among them a Patek Philippe pocket watch worth millions. Elsewhere, Revson notices a woman's Cartier Tank, and Grace considers buying one for Cleo. (Open Library)

Watches

Cartier Tank: Revson notices a woman's shiny Cartier Tank and asks whether it is new. Later, Roy Grace asks about the price of a Tank while considering a present for Cleo. These passages identify the Tank family without a reference; the wearer's identity remains unconfirmed.

Source text: He noticed the shiny Cartier Tank watch on her wrist. ‘Is that new?’ (Peter James, Dead Man's Time, scan cataloged as W. F. Howes, 2013, pp. 40, 394; Internet Archive scan OCR)

Victorinox Swiss Army (unidentified model): Roy Grace glances at the sturdy, heavily scratched Swiss Army watch that his first wife Sandy gave him for his thirtieth birthday, the day she disappeared; its leather strap is almost worn out. The brand is named; the model is not.

Source text: the sturdy but heavily scratched Swiss Army watch Sandy had given him for his thirtieth birthday, the day she disappeared; its leather strap was almost worn out. (Peter James, Dead Man's Time, scan cataloged as W. F. Howes, 2013, p. 341; Internet Archive scan OCR)