Red Mercury (1996)

Red Mercury

Max Barclay's 1996 thriller follows the trade in red mercury, the rumored Soviet nuclear material, from Central Asia to the West. Ovezov, one of the men moving it, keeps time on a new American watch. (Open Library)

Watches

Timex Indiglo

Ovezov checks his new blue-dial Timex Indiglo, set to Ashkhabad and Atlanta time, and imagines what his family is doing at home. The novel names the Indiglo line but not a reference.

Source text: Ovezov checked the blue dial of his new Timex Indiglo watch, another gadget he had picked up (Max Barclay, Red Mercury, scan cataloged as Dove Books, 1996, p. 97; Internet Archive scan OCR)