Posted by John Wilson on September 28, 2005 at 12:14:10 from 202.154.157.202 user hugo.
In Reply to: Re: Watches posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on September 27, 2005 at 17:42:21:
In SA John has a watch “which was now called a chronometer because John was the master of a ship” and which he disappears to look at (Ch 6). They do not have a watch to time their tacks when sailing at night, but on the morning after, the chronometer is on the tin box in the tent with the barometer (Ch 23). During the storm he puts it in his pocket (Ch 30).
These suggest that it is a pocket watch, not a wrist watch. The aneroid barometer which John won at school and always takes with him is kept dry in a heavy tin box with the books (Ch 3, 4).
PS: Does Dick determine the direction of North with a watch and the sun in one book?