"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
威廉·梅克比斯·薩克萊 (William Makepeace Thackeray)（1811年-1863年）為英國小說家及諷刺作家，他主要以作品《浮華世界》 (Vanity Fair)（1847年-1848年）聞名，此作形容拿破崙戰爭時期的英國社會。