Listening Woman (1978)

Tony Hillerman's third Joe Leaphorn novel opens with the Navajo Tribal Police lieutenant driving a prisoner across the reservation at sunset, and grows into a case that reaches back years and into a hidden fortune. The prisoner's cheap watch on an expensive band is the first thing the reader learns about him. (Wikipedia)

Watches

Timex watch: Emerson Begay, handcuffed in Leaphorn's patrol car in the opening chapter, wears a $12.95 Timex held by a heavy sand-cast silver watchband, the contrast between the watch and the band doing the character work. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: On his left wrist was a $12.95 Timex watch held by a heavy sand-cast silver watchband (Tony Hillerman, Listening Woman, scan cataloged as Avon Books, 1979, p. 15; Internet Archive scan OCR)