The Winemakers (1977)
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Jack M. Bickham's 1977 novel follows Robert Mancini, who has broken from the Trello wine dynasty to make finer wine in the Napa Valley, with the Timmons Corporation's money and its two watchful representatives at his board table. One of them times the meeting on the status watch of the moment. (Open Library)
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- At the Wednesday meeting where Robert Mancini and Susan Knight mean to head off a purchase of poor Elmhurst wine, John Endicott jokes about Susan's legs and his colleague E. Z. Simms, the prim efficiency expert with three attache cases of computer projections, declines to be amused: he glances at a new gold Pulsar and says it is time to commence. The novel dates from 1977, before Seiko's Pulsar line. The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: E. Z. Simms showed no amusement. He glanced at a new gold Pulsar watch. "I believe," he said primly, "it is time to commence." (Jack M. Bickham, The Winemakers, scan cataloged as Pocket Books, 1978, p. 170; Internet Archive scan OCR)