Sullivan's Challenge (1989)

Sibylle Garrett's Silhouette Intimate Moments romance, published in 1989, opens aboard a Boeing 747 bound for Paris as terrorists seize it over the coast of France. Among the passengers are Marianne Lloyd Sullivan and, in the first-class lounge, her former husband Robert Lewis Sullivan, three years out of the State Department's anti-terrorist division. (Open Library)

Watches

Swatch watch: With the hijacker standing over the next seat, the elderly Mrs. Rafferty pushes back her silk sleeve and squints at her small diamond-studded watch without her glasses, and Marianne whispers the time for her from the pink-and-white Swatch her parents gave her for Christmas: ten after eight, forty-five minutes before her connecting flight to Chamonix was due to leave. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: "It's ten after eight," Marianne whispered with a glance at the pink-and-white Swatch watch her parents had given her for Christmas. Only forty-five minutes until her flight left for Chamonix. (Sibylle Garrett, Sullivan's Challenge, scan cataloged as Silhouette Intimate Moments, 1989, p. 15, normalising the OCR's doubled apostrophes to quotation marks; her full name is read out by the hijacker on p. 49; Internet Archive scan OCR)