The Devil, Delfina Varela & the Used Chevy (1993)

Louie Garcia Robinson's comic novel was published by Anchor Books, a Doubleday imprint, in 1993. Its Library of Congress record gives the full title: which examines Delfina Varela's puzzling pact with the Devil, the plaintive love story of Ruiz Lopez Mondragon, and the doomed Hispanic political dream of Manuel Caballos. (Open Library)

Watches

Swatch watch: Collecting her cat, Benjie, from Senora Talavera, who has fed him chicken in mole sauce, Delfina pulls up the sleeve of her black sweater to read her Swatch with the pink wristband, bringing it up close to her face and back again to focus, and decides she must go. She holds out her wrist to show Damy the time on her pretty Swatch (p. 263), and pulls back her left sleeve to let Sergeant Torres see it (p. 278). The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: Delfina pulled up the sleeve of her black sweater to look at her watch, a Swatch watch with a pink wristband. (Louie Garcia Robinson, The Devil, Delfina Varela & the Used Chevy, scan cataloged as Anchor Books (Doubleday), 1993, p. 238; Internet Archive scan OCR)