Sleepless Nights (1994)
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Andrew Bergman's 1994 novel is told by Robby Weisglass, a Columbia history professor and the son of German Jewish refugees in New York, who talks through his family's damage on a psychoanalyst's couch. One of the sessions recalls his father's retirement party in 1973. (Open Library)
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- Omega (unidentified model)
- Robby tells Dr. Singer how the family nursed twenty-dollar drinks at the Plaza before walking to Chronicle Publications, where a couple of dozen colleagues stood about waiting to go home. Mr. Stein praised "Herb" as a man you could set your watch by, then opened a box and handed him an Omega with his name and "Chronicle Publications, 1948-1973" inscribed on the back. The applause swelled and stopped, and the son was left with a sense of his father's utter dispensability. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: Then he opened this box and handed my father an Omega watch with his name inscribed on the back and the words 'Chronicle Publications, 1948-1973.' Then there was some applause that sort of swelled and then abruptly ended, and that was that. (Andrew Bergman, Sleepless Nights, scan cataloged as Donald I. Fine, 1994, p. 214; the OCR reads "Pubhcations"; the father is named on p. 39 and the narrator on p. 138; Internet Archive scan OCR)