Deal is there's all sorts of watches that monitor your vitals and beep if something has an alert. They have no idea if it was a watch or why he looked at it.
On the other side of the coin, he could have looked at the time and thought, "good, I can stay and talk with the folks as long as they want because I don't have to be anywhere for a couple of hours"
It works both ways and the fucknuts only work one way. To destroy democracy.