Eugenie Grandet (1833)

Honore de Balzac's novel of provincial avarice. "Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?" This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie humaine. (Goodreads)

Watches

Breguet pocket watch: "He drew out the most delicious thin watch that Breguet had ever made."

Source text: "Besides—" here he pulled out the prettiest watch Breguet ever made. "Dear me! I am early, it is only eleven o’clock!" (Project Gutenberg ebook 1715)