Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on August 23, 2002 at 14:14:04 from 194.112.53.234 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: John's watch posted by Jon on August 15, 2002 at 13:04:34:
The timescale is AR's; I happen to have just read past the bit in WDMTGTS where John, taking Goblin past the Sunk LV, reflects on his sailing on the lake two years before.
I think you must be right and it was a wristwatch.