How to Sell (2009)

How to Sell

Clancy Martin's 2009 debut novel, drawn from his years in the Texas jewelry trade, follows sixteen-year-old Bobby Clark into his brother Jim's Fort Worth store, where the Rolex case is the engine of the business and of its frauds. (Open Library)

Watches

Rolex Day-Date

Bobby sells a solid-gold Rolex President for $4,995, far below the authorized dealer's price. He later learns that the shop is taking payment for watches it does not intend to supply. The watch is merchandise in the scene, not Bobby's own wristwatch.

Source text: A brand-new Rolex men's President, solid eighteen-karat gold, lifetime warranty. (Clancy Martin, How to Sell, scan cataloged as Picador, 2010, pp. 37, 43; Internet Archive scan OCR)