The High Window (1942)

Raymond Chandler's third Philip Marlowe novel begins in Pasadena, where the port-drinking widow Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to recover a rare coin she believes her daughter-in-law, the former nightclub singer Linda Conquest, stole when she walked out. Marlowe asks what else the young woman had with her. (Open Library)

Watches

Longines watch: Asked what jewelry Linda Conquest took when she left, Mrs. Murdock reels off an emerald and diamond ring of no great value, a platinum Longines with rubies in the mounting and a cloudy amber necklace she regrets having given her. The watch is described, never seen. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: "An emerald and diamond ring of no very great value, a platinum Longines watch with rubies in the mounting, a very good cloudy amber necklace which I was foolish enough to give her myself." (Raymond Chandler, The High Window, scan cataloged as Vintage Books, 1992, p. 20; Internet Archive scan OCR)