The Watch Seller was a street vendor and a minor background character who sold watches (most likely counterfeit) primarily in Herald Square in New York City.
Biography[]
Events of Watchmen[]
Corpse of the Watch Seller in the aftermath of the 11/2 Psychic Shockwave event
The Watch Seller was first seen shouting at Malcolm Long as he passed by him.[1] He was also seen shouting at the black mailman.[2]
On the night of November 2, 1985, Gloria Long asked him if he saw her husband. Bernard told her to ask the black watch seller nearby; at that comment, Gloria felt insulted, as if he were implying to her all black people belong to a "negro club" knowing each other.[3]
At the stroke of midnight, The Watch Seller was instantly killed along with everyone else in the area when Adrien Veidt's "alien" squid monster was teleported to Manhattan and died the moment it arrived there. The peddler's body laid in the street along with his wares in front of the New Utopia Cinema.[4]