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•梅克匹斯•萨克雷（William Makepeace Thackeray）（1811-1863），英国小说家和讽刺作家，以《名利场》（Vanity Fair）(1847-1848年）而名声鹊起，《名利场》一书描述了拿破仑战争期间的英国社会。