Icefire (1998)
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Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens's 1998 technothriller opens with Navy SEAL Mitch Webber flying a nuclear search team over the Ross Ice Shelf, where six buried warheads are about to shear the shelf from its anchors. His two watches introduce the military's habit of running on a single clock. (Open Library)
Watches
- Luminox watch
- Webber's second watch is a heavy, standard-issue Swiss Luminox kept permanently on GPS mean time, because for its most critical operations the U.S. military runs on one clock and one time zone. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: His second watch, a heavy, standard-issue Swiss Luminox, was always set to GPS mean time. (Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Icefire, scan cataloged as Pocket Books, 1998, p. 14; the wearer is named on p. 5; Internet Archive scan OCR)
- Timex watch
- Pulling back his parka sleeve in the helicopter, Webber checks the first of his two watches, a cheap Timex digital set to McMurdo local time. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: Webber pulled back his parka sleeve and checked one of his two watches, the cheap Timex digital set to McMurdo time. (Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Icefire, scan cataloged as Pocket Books, 1998, p. 14; the wearer is named on p. 5; Internet Archive scan OCR; the scan prints a dash after "watches")