"As for "tickers", (…) her apartments were alive with their clicking. Tor, happening to mention one night that hers, (…) went ill, on the very next morning there came to her a little bijou marked Leroy (…) and another signed Breguet, which was covered with pearls (...)."
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair, 1847-1848
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) fue un novelista y escritor satírico inglés cuya fama se consagró principalmente con “Vanity Fair” (1847-1848), obra que describe la sociedad inglesa durante las Guerras Napoleónicas.