Rogue Warrior: Designation Gold (1997)

Richard Marcinko and John Weisman's Rogue Warrior: Designation Gold follows Marcinko's fictionalized soldier of fortune through a plot to restore Soviet power. In the 1997 thriller, a Russian officer's gold Rolex becomes a clue to his allegiances. (Internet Archive)

Watches

Rolex Day-Date: Marcinko notices a brand-new gold Rolex President on an OMON colonel's left wrist. The expensive watch helps him connect the officer with Viktor Grinkov, and he later recognizes the masked colonel by it. No reference is named.

Source text: On that wrist was a gold Rolex President watch. (Richard Marcinko and John Weisman, Rogue Warrior: Designation Gold, scan cataloged as Pocket Books, 1997, pp. 25, 88, 123; Internet Archive scan OCR)