Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-12-30
AMERICAN WATCHES:
THEIR MANUFACTURE AT WALTHAM,
MASS

tentlon prominence it deserves. The
same perfection Of machinery that has
made Colts firearms the acknowledged
best in the world, after patient expert
ment, has been successfully applied to
the manufacture watches.
| The introduction ofAmerican watches
marks an era III the history Of time and
timekeepers, aud may well be Joined
with the Atlantic Telegraph, the Sewing
Machine and other kindred successes of
mind over matter, which SO wonderfully
distinguish the present period
Hitherto England and Switzerland
have been the watchmakers ofthe world.
Coventry and Prescott in Lancashire
and arwickshire, in England, and Lo-
Gle and La Chaux de Ponds in the nor
thern cantons Of Switzerland, by Lake
Geneva, have been and are the worlds
famed seats of watch manufacture but
now it seems that Waltham, Mass, has
surpassed these old world competitors,
and with machinery, system and intelli-
gent skill, unaidel by protection of any
kind, already produces the NEST thor
oughly exact timekeepers at about half
the cost of the best foreign watches.
All imported watches are made by
hand, the movements and parts ofmove-
ments by different persons, and at diff
erenttimes and places; and each watch
is finally finished with special reference
to itsolf-eyery part being made to suit
only one place, and the whole movement
fitted to a case which will suit no other
moYement-no two watches being in all
respects, approximately alike.
A large majority Of these watches are
worthless, rs timekeepers, and con-
slant bill ofexpense to their owners, over
s5,oo0,000 being annually thrown away
in vain attempts to improve them.
The American watches are construc.
ted upon the most scientific and appro-
we'd principles, designed to secure uni
formity, simplicity, durability, cheapness
and unvarying perfection of movement,
and are sold with certificate of war
ranty In all eases, for ten years, signed
by the manufacturers.
The specific advantages Of these
watches to dealers and wearers, as com
pared with the best imported handmade
watches, will be most readily apprehen-
ded by the following enumeration, viz:
Each watch and each part of every
watch, of a given style, is the unyarying
counterpart of every watch Of the same
style, so that any single part is exactly
lifted, and may be transposed indiscrim-
inately to make up any one OF any num-
Der Of watches. The movements are
made to fit any one Of any number Of
cases, thus enabling the dealer to keep
large and varied stock of movements
with limited number Of cases, to suit
the demands of trade
The ease and facility with which any
part can be restored when broken or lost
by accldent-each part being registered
at the factory-a counterpart can be had
for the mere cost Of reproduction, and
with Wholemoycments changed and sent
by mail or express to any part Of the
world. Dealers are thus brought direct
ly in contact with the manufacturer, and
single retail profit is the only added
cost to the Wearer, to manufacturers
prices.
The watches have fewer parts, are
more substantially made than any others,
are easily kept clean, and the chances
for failure by breakage are diminished
four-hfths as compared with the English
watch, which has upwards of seven hun
dred separate parts, while the American
watch has but one hundred and twenty
five parts, and most Of these are SO sub
stantial, and all so perfect, that it would
be very difficult to break them.
The American watch is eminently ad-
apted for railroad engineers and conduc-
tors, where exact time is of the utmost
Importance, and where the constant jar
of the moving train offers the most try
ing tent to prove the quality of watch
as timekeeper. Many eminent engin
GERS and conductors on the leading rail-
roads Of the country have been supplied
with these watches and now will have no
other.
There is no article Of common use that
is SO little understood, and about which
so much deception, charlatanism and
swindling may be and is continually
Practiced, as attaches to the watch; and
it will be a great comfort to honest deal
ers and legitimate buyers and wearers,
to know that they can have a substan-
tial and reliable pocket timekeeper, at a
moderate price, made at home, and
about which there can be no deception
or mistake, that may not be easily,
promptly and cheaply remedied, by wri-
ting to Waltham or to Robbins and APP
pleton, Is Maiden Lane, New York,
General Agents.
In many parts of the country great
difficulty is experienced in finding good
watch repairers and reliable timekeepers
BY the introduction Of American watch
es this difficulty may be almost entirely
obviated, SO that the country merchant
can obtain adjusted watches as part Of
his miscellaneous stock, and the custo-
mer viii buy his regulated timekeeper,
wind it up and 60 about his business, as
he would after purchasing any other ar
ticle without mystery or humbug.
The manufacturers, Messrs Appleton
Tracy, & Co., with their present means
can furnish 10000 watches per annum,
and they intend to furnish from time to
time, as the wants Of the trade may re-
quire, other styles and sizes Of watches,
including an entire new form Of sport
ing or timing watch, which will indicate
the minutest divisions of time with more
accuracy than has ever before been at
tanned.
Arrangements are now being made to
supply small and elegantly finished
watches for ladies.
The mandatory stands upon the
banks Of Charles River, in the town Of
w altman, Mass, and occupies a site OF
beauty, covering an area of
1907 100 feet, forming quadrangle.
with an open court in the center The
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