title: Russian Wristwatches: Pocket Watches, Stop Watches, Deck Watches & Marine Chronometers (A Schiffer Book for Collectors)
author:  Juri Levenberg 
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: German
zlib_text: The Day Watch
  
  
  This text has been banned for distribution as injurious to the cause of the
  Light.
  
  
  The Night Watch
  
  
  This text has been banned for distribution as injurious to the cause of the
  Darkness.
  
  
  The Day Watch
  
  
  Story One
  
  
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  UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL PERMITTED
  
  
  Prologue
  
  
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  The entrance did not inspire respect. The coded lock was broken, the floor was
  littered with the trampled butts of cheap cigarettes. Inside the elevator the
  walls were covered with graffiti, the word Spartak scrawled as often as the
  usual crude obscenities. The plastic buttons had been burned through with
  cigarettes and painstakingly plugged with chewing gum that was now rock-hard.
  
  
  The door to the apartment on the fourth floor was a good match for the
  entrance: some kind of hideous old Soviet artificial leather, cheap aluminum
  numbers barely held on by their crooked screws.
  
  
  Natasha hesitated for a moment before she pressed the doorbell. She must be
  insane, hoping for anything from a place l