The Mysteries of London, Volume II (1845)

George W. M. Reynolds's serialized urban melodrama follows crime, poverty, wealth, secrets, and sensation through the underworld and drawing rooms of Victorian London. (Open Library)

Watches

Breguet pocket watch: Greenwood's gold chain and Breguet watch are visible while he paces his study in agitation, marking his fashionable wealth.

Source text: His handsome dressing-gown of oriental pattern was not arranged, with the usual contrived air of negligence, to display the beautiful shirt-front, over which hung the gold chain of his Breguet-watch:—on the contrary, it had evidently been hurried on without the least regard to effect. (Project Gutenberg ebook 51294)