"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
Уильям Мейкпис Теккерей (1811-1863) – английский романист и сатирик, прославившийся романом "Ярмарка тщеславия" (1847-1848), в котором он ярко описал английское общество времен наполеоновских войн.