Midnight and the Meaning of Love (2011)

Sister Souljah's 2011 sequel to Midnight follows its Sudanese-born narrator across the world in pursuit of his wife Akemi. The novel was published by Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. (Wikipedia)

Watches

Rolex Datejust: Midnight, the narrator, opens a box to find a Rolex Datejust with its crystal cracked and its hands stopped, a watch he has never seen before. The text names the model and describes its damaged state; it does not give a reference or a metal.

Source text: I opened the box. It was a Rolex Datejust. The hands of the clock were paused in time. The crystal was cracked. I had never seen it before. (Sister Souljah, Midnight and the Meaning of Love, Atria Books, 2011, p. 33; Internet Archive)