Eugenie Grandet (1833)
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Honoré de Balzac's novel of provincial avarice follows Eugénie Grandet within a wealthy but miserly Saumur household. Charles Grandet's Breguet pocket watch enters as a pointed luxury detail: in the Project Gutenberg translation, he produces what the narrator calls “the prettiest watch Breguet ever made.” (Goodreads)
Watches
- Breguet pocket watch
- Charles Grandet checks the time by drawing out what this English translation calls “the prettiest watch Breguet 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)