The Christ Commission (1980)
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Og Mandino's 1980 novel knocks bestselling mystery writer Matt Lawrence unconscious after a television appearance and wakes him in Jerusalem six years after the crucifixion, with a commission to investigate what happened to the body of Jesus. His watch marks the boundary between the two worlds. (Open Library)
Watches
- Omega (unidentified model)
- Lawrence checks his Omega in a limousine on the way to a Burbank television studio. When he comes to in first-century Jerusalem the gold Omega wristwatch and his wedding ring are gone along with his clothes, and both are on his night table, the watch still ticking, when he wakes back in his own time. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: The gold Omega wristwatch and wide-band wedding ring were missing. (Og Mandino, The Christ Commission, scan cataloged as Lippincott & Crowell, 1980, pp. 1, 14, 255; Internet Archive scan OCR)