The Last Blue Mile (2007)
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Kim Ponders's 2007 novel follows a cadet's first year at the United States Air Force Academy and Brigadier General John Waller, the ex-fighter pilot who must handle a cheating scandal. His watch stands in for the office clock he refuses to hang. (Open Library)
Watches
- Breitling (unidentified model)
- When Cadet Paula Snowe glances around General Waller's office to see how late she is, there are no clocks; Waller wears a kinetic Breitling set daily against the master clock at the naval observatory, a habit from the days before GPS that he is loath to give up. The text calls the watch kinetic, an automatic by another name; the maker is named and the model is not.
Source text: There were no clocks. He wore a kinetic Breitling watch on his wrist, set daily against the master clock at the naval observatory. It was an old habit, born from the days before GPS, and one he was loath to give up. (Kim Ponders, The Last Blue Mile, scan cataloged as HarperCollins, 2007, p. 13; Internet Archive scan OCR)