The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-05-03 00:00:00

LONDON, &L

A. the purchase of a Watch may be the act of a
lifetime it is advieeble to buy • good article, which will
be found the cheapest in the end. Mr. Lavea's repu-
tation and his Watches are alike known all over the
world, and therefore purchasers will consult theft own
interests in buying a good article of an eminent Loudon
manufacturer. _ .

Of all nuisances, a bad watch is perhaps one of the
worst—it is continually stopping and getting out of
order—costing im owner no end of expense for repairs,
and even then the time it keeps can never be depended

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To make this subject thoroughly understood, it is
necemiu7 here to state that • good wateh is med. of the
beat materials, and the workmen employed are those of
surbei Mr skill, who have bad great experience at the trade, In
addition to which they take their time to finteh every part as
correctly and enact as pomeible. But in a common article the
price will not admit of much time being devoted to its mama.
facture, Inferior workmen ale, are employed, ho frequently
leave thaw parts out of sight in • rough and unflnishM suite,
thereby eaming A lArge amount 01 weat and tear, and an un-
necessary minima id frktion, •hlch nmet in the end prom
detrimental to It., timekeeping. This, of course, Is only known
to it. maker, for • watch may be bad and yet look
good. and for a few month, keep time tolerably well.
Thu Is especially the cape with many of the +nacho:ollM are
made In the country, and Ic much to be regretted, as It will
In the end lower us In the eyes of the world, who now all look
to England for the beet watches. . . .

From calculations made it has been ascertained that the
cost .4 repairing a common Watch, ts hen it has been in
%MU • few years, is often more than the price paid for it
in the find Instance; &aide, the trouble and annoyance It
caws. ;us that an apparently cheap Watch, may in the end
prove • dear one, If It coda as much or more NM its value
In a few years for repairs, and even then the °VINT Ims
nothing to show for the money but is being constantly misled
regarding the time.
frequenUy happens that the makere of inferior Watches,
aware of the &acuity of finding purchasers, adopt the expo-
dient of putting the IMMee of eminent manufacturers on them
—this practice o. unfortunately very frequently done, and has
caused um wren] times to have recoune to law proceedings, in
consequence of our nuns being used; but to be conUnually
going to law eues.:Jons a great 'oh, so it may perhaps in
some degree temen the evil by giving publicity to it, and
we would advt., all persons about to purchase Watches called
" Laval's " to communicate with us and the number, he,
can be traced, and thus frustrate any attempui of thisdescrip-
tion. . . .

If there is one thing more than another, we should be careful
to obtain good, it must be that which we shall always carry
about with no, and have oiscsalon seems) times a day to rely
upon for it,. timekeeping. A good ankle by being cleaned
occasionally (about once celery two years) will Wt a life-
Um*, so that atter the Arst outlay no further expense will be
ncurred. . . . .

The prmened. of n frond Watch Is an emblem of respectability,
and denotes the position in life of Its owner, and moreover it
will slam-. sell lot Ito value should the owner at any time wildi
to diatoms of It.
Loudon has always been celebrated for the superiority
of its watches, and if we trace beak the early history of
Horology, we floid that whenever a good watch wan re-
quired it was customary to send to London for one ;
this is still done at the present day, and will always
continue while the Londoners keep up the character of
their manufacture_
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