Family Secrets (1986)
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Burt Hirschfeld's 1986 novel of money, ambition and adultery turns on Nels Proctor, a man whose perfect tailoring and self-command hold everyone around him at a distance. The one watch the book names is his. (Open Library)
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- Baume & Mercier watch
- Dressing after an afternoon in his private gym with his friend Gary's wife, Nels Proctor ignores her declaration of love, slides a gold Baume & Mercier onto his wrist and announces an appointment in fifteen minutes. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: He ignored the question. He slid a gold Baume & Mercier onto his wrist, checking the time. (Burt Hirschfeld, Family Secrets, scan cataloged as Charter Books, 1986, p. 101; Internet Archive scan OCR)