The Furies (2003)
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Fernanda Eberstadt's 2003 novel follows the love affair and self-destructing marriage of Gwen Lewis, a well-off director of an institute helping Russia to democratize, and Gideon Wolkowitz, a penniless Lower East Side puppeteer, in the Manhattan of the 1990s boom. At a dinner given by Gwen's friend Christopher, Gideon sits apart while the table compares watches. (Open Library)
Watches
- Victorinox Swiss Army (unidentified model)
- The comparison starts when Molly shows off a Bulgari from a rich suitor that Christopher calls hideous and prices at ten thousand dollars. Gwen turns out to be wearing a Swiss Army watch, and Christopher teases that the Swiss are too passive for someone so militaristic. On the way home Gideon rages at an evening spent on "this year's Bulgari watch". The text says only "Swiss Army watch".
Source text: Everybody now compares watches. Yilmaz is wearing an old Rolex watch of Chris's; Agnes has a Swatch; Gwen is wearing a Swiss Army watch. (Fernanda Eberstadt, The Furies, scan cataloged as Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, p. 295; Christopher's teasing follows on the same page and Gideon's complaint is on p. 297; her full name is on p. 45; Internet Archive scan OCR)
- Swatch watch
- Agnes, an older sculptor who lives in a renovated synagogue and once threw her wedding ring into the Tiber, has a Swatch. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: Everybody now compares watches. Yilmaz is wearing an old Rolex watch of Chris's; Agnes has a Swatch; Gwen is wearing a Swiss Army watch. (Fernanda Eberstadt, The Furies, scan cataloged as Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, p. 295; Agnes is introduced on p. 293; Internet Archive scan OCR)
- Rolex (unidentified model)
- Yilmaz, Christopher's twenty-six-year-old Turkish boyfriend, wears an old Rolex that belongs to Christopher. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: Everybody now compares watches. Yilmaz is wearing an old Rolex watch of Chris's; Agnes has a Swatch; Gwen is wearing a Swiss Army watch. (Fernanda Eberstadt, The Furies, scan cataloged as Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, p. 295; Yilmaz is introduced on p. 152; Internet Archive scan OCR)