The Falls (2004)

The Falls

Joyce Carol Oates's 2004 novel begins in 1950 with a bridegroom, the Reverend Gilbert Erskine, throwing himself into Niagara Falls the morning after his wedding, and follows his widow Ariah through the decades that follow. His watch is on his wrist to the end. (Open Library)

Watches

Bulova (unidentified model)

Gilbert Erskine wears the Bulova his parents gave him on graduating from seminary, even on the morning of his suicide. An earlier passage describes it as gold while he kneels to pray. The model is not named.

Source text: by his gold Bulova watch nearing five o'clock (Joyce Carol Oates, The Falls, scan cataloged as Harper Perennial, 2005, pp. 27, 37; Internet Archive scan OCR)