Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-10-01
AMERICAN WATCHES.
7H.u Manufacture at Wahaanr, Mass.

TG-ir Manufacture at W'atham, Mass Cam
parison lcih Foreign Product.
In this age of splendid m chanical triumphs
in which our own country stands 50 proud
ly foremost, there is one that is just begin
ing to receive the attention and prominence
that it deserves. The same perfection Of
machinery that has made Colts firearms the
acknowledged best in the world. after patient
experiment, has been successfully applied to
the manufacture Of watches.
The introduction OF American Watches
marks an area in the history of time and
timekaepcrs, and may well e Joined with the
Atlantic Telegraph, Sewing Machine. and
other kindred successes of mind over matter,
which 50 wonderfully distinguish the pres
ent period.
Hitherto England and Switzerland have
been tha watchmakers Of the world. Cow
entry and Prescott in Lancashire and War
wickshire, in England, and Locle and La
ChauX de Fonds in the Northern cantons of
Switzerland, by Lake Geneva, have been and
are the worlds famed seats of watch manu-
tacture but now it seems that Waltham,
Mass, has surpassed the old world competi-
tors, and with machinery, system and intel
ligent skill, unaided by protection of any
kind, already produces the most thoroughly
exact timekeepers at about half the cost Of
the best foreign made watches.
All imported watches are made by hand,
the movements and parts of movements bv
different persons, and at different times and
places and each watch is finally finished
with special reference to itself-every part
being made to suit only one place, and the
whole movement fitted to IA case which will
suit no other movement-no two watches
being in all respects approximately alike.
\ large majority Of these watches arc
worthless, as timekeepers, and constant
bill Of expense to their owners, over So ,000,-
900 being annually thrown away in vain at
tempts to improve them.
The American watches are constructed
upon the most scientific and approved princi-
pies. designed to secure uniformity, simpli-
city, durability, cheapness, and unyarying
perfection Of movement, and are sold with a
certificate of warranty in all cases, for ten
years, signed by the manufacturers.
The specific advantages of these watches
to dealers and wearers, as compared with
the best improved hand made watches, will
be most readily apprehended by the follow
ing enumeration, to wit Each watch, and
each part every watch Of a given style is tie
| exact counterpart of every watch of the same
| style, So that any single part is exactly fitted
and may be transpOsed indscriminately to
make up any one of any number of watches
| The movements are made to tit any one ofany
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 acci-
dent-each part being registered at the fac
tory-a counterpart can be had at the mere
cost Of reproduction, and with whole move
Inents changed and sent by mail or express
to any part Of the world Dealers are thus
brought in contact with the manufacturer,
and a 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 ca
silly kept clean, and the chances for failure
by breakage are diminished four-ffths as
compared with the English watch, which
has upwards of eight hundred separate parts
while the American watch has but one hun.
dred ard twenty five parts, and most OF thosC
are substantial, and all SO perfect that il
would be very difficult to break them.
The American watch is eminently ADAPTED
for railroad engineers and conductors, wher,
exact time is OF the utmost importance, anC
where the constant jar of the moving trair
offers the most trying test to prove the quail
ity of II watch as a timekeeper. Many em
nent engineers and conductors on the leading
railroads of the country have been supplied
with these watches and now will have n,
other.
There j, no article of common u.s. that i
so little understood. and about which S,
much deception, charlatanism and swindlin,
may be and is continually practiced as at
taches to the watch and il will be grea
comfort TO honest dealers and legitimate buy
ers and wearers, to know that they can hav
a substantial and reliable pocket thuekeap
er, at moderate price, made at lur, an,
about which there can be no dec ptiun %
mistake, that may not be easily. IruupH,
and cheaply rcmedied, by writing to Walt
ham, or To Robbins & Appleton, Is Maidci
Lane, New York, General Agents
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