He landed the mall retrofit in March, eleven rooftop units, the biggest contract of his working life, and spent the commission four days later at a jeweler in a strip mall two doors from a vape shop. Forty-one thousand, financed at nine percent over sixty months. The salesman called him boss the entire time. He wore it out of the store.

The dial holds four sub-dials, two hundred stones and no numeral he has ever located. On job sites he pushes the sleeve back while handing over the invoice, then waits a beat. For the actual time he uses the twelve-dollar digital stuck to his truck dash. At his daughter's game in April he checked his wrist eleven times and nobody looked up.