Chai Assert deepEqual but Object is Empty

I am trying to write some tests covering a Class I have written that can have multiple, varying components. What I am trying to do is create a new class instance and save it to a variable then test if that variable has a specific key.

describe('Year Indicator', () => {
    it('should return a Watch instance with a "year" property.', () => {
        const settings = {
            testing: true,
            dials: [{
                hands: {
                    hour: 'hour-hand',
                    minute: 'minute-hand',
                    second: 'second-hand',
                }
            }],
            year: {
                id: 'year-hand'
            }
        };
        const test = new Watch(settings);
        assert.deepEqual(test, { year: { id: 'year-hand' } });
    });
});

In this example, I expect test to return a new instance of Watch which contains the properties from settings. However, whenever I run this test, it errors because test returns as an empty object.

1) Year Indicator
   should return a Watch instance with a "year" property.:

  AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: Watch {} deepEqual { year: { id: 'year-hand' } }
      + expected - actual

  -{}
  +{
  +  "year": {
  +    "id": "year-hand"
  +  }
  +}

The only thing I can really think of is the initial Watch class does make a call using Moment to get the current date. Is it possible that I need to delay this test until the full object is returned?

I am running all of my tests through the terminal using Mocha and Chai assert.