The Peking Mandate (1983)
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Peter Siris's 1983 novel follows Marc Slater, president of the Boston metals and minerals trader M. H. Schaffer Corporation, from his Beacon Hill study into a high-stakes deal in China. His watch is introduced with the habit that defines him. (Open Library)
Watches
- Rolex (unidentified model)
- In his opening scene Marc Slater glances at his Rolex, which reads 11:01 when he knows it is 10:55: he sets it six minutes ahead to fool himself about his schedule, a ruse that rarely works. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: He glanced at his Rolex watch. Though it read 11:01, he knew that it was 10:55. Since his schedule always ran late, he set his watch ahead by six minutes hoping to fool himself. (Peter Siris, The Peking Mandate, scan cataloged as Zebra Books, 1985, p. 29; the wearer is named on p. 28; Internet Archive scan OCR)