The Cuckoo's Calling (2013)

The first Cormoran Strike novel by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling's pseudonym. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. (Goodreads)

Watches

Vacheron Constantin dress watch: Strike weighs his client's signs of strain against "the Vacheron Constantin watch revealed on his pale wrist when he gesticulated."

Source text: "the Vacheron Constantin watch revealed on his pale wrist" (Goodreads)