The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-10-06
American Watches.

COMPARISON WITH FoRIGN Product.
In this age of splendid mechanical tri-
umphs in which our own country stands
so proudly foremost, there is one that is
just beginning 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 manufac.
ture Of watches.
The introduction Of American watches
marks an era in the history of time and
timekeepers and may well be joined with
the Atlantic Telegraph, 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 of the world. Gov.
entry and Prescott in Lancashire and
Warwckshire, in England, and Locle and
La Nhaux de Fonds in the Northern IAN.
tons 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 machine
~, system and intelligent skill unaided
by protection of any kind, already pro-
duces the most thoroughly exact time
keepers, at about half the cost of the best
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All imported watches are made by
hand, the movements and parts of move
ments by different persons, and at differ
ent 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 case which will suit no other move
ment--no two watches being in all re-
spects approximately alike. -... ....
A large majority Of these watches are
worthless, as timekeepers and constant
bill Of expense to their owners, over
100000 being annually thrown away
in vain attempts to improve them.
The American watches are constructed
upon the most scientific and approved
principles, designed to secure uniformity,
simplicity, durability, cheapncss, and un-
varying perfection Of movement, and are
sold with certificate Of warranty in all
cases, for ten years, signed by the manu.
facturers.
The specific advantages of these watch
es to dealers and wearers, as compared
with the best imported handmade watch
es, will be most readily. apprehended by
the following enumeration, to wit Each
watch and each part of every watch, of
given style, is the unvarying counterpart
of every watch of the same style, so that
any single part is exactly fitted and may
be transposed indiscriminately to make up
any one Of any number of watches. The
movements arc made to ct any one Of any
number Of cases, thus enabling the dealer
TO keep large and varied stock of move.
ments 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 accident-each part being registered
at the factory-a counterpart can be had
for the mere cost of reproduction. and with
whole movements changed and sent by
mail or express to any part of the world.
Dealers are thus brought directly in con.
tact with the manufacturer, and a single
retail profit is the only added cost to the
wearer, to manufacturers prices
The waches have fewer parts, are more
substantially made than any others, are
easily kept clean, and the chances for fail.
ure by breaking 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 hundred and twenty-five parts, and
most of those are so substantial, and all
so perfect that it would be very difficult to
break them.
The American watch is ominently
adapted for railroad engineers and con.
ductors, where exact time is of the ut.
most Importance, and where the constant
jar of the moving train offers the most
trying test to prove the quality Of watch
"a tinekeeper. Many eminent engineers
and conductors on the leading railroads 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
30 much deception, charlatanism, and
swindling may be and is continually prac-
ticed, as attaches to the watch and it
will be a great comfort to honest dealers
and legitimate buyers and wearers, to
know that they can have substantial and
reliable pocket timekeeper, at q 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 writing to Waltham, or to
Robbins & Appleton, 10 Maiden Lane,
New York, General Agents. ,..-.. e
In, many parts of the country great DIFF
6culty is experienced in finding good
watch repairers and reliable timekeepers
BY the introduction of American watches
this difficulty may be almost entirely OBJ
waited, SO that the country merchant can
obtain adjusted watches as part of his
miscellaneous stock, aud the customer will
buy his regulated 'timekeeper, wind it up,
and 90 about his business, as he would az
ter purchasing any other article without
mystery and humbug.
| The manufacturers Messrs. Appleton,
Tracy 4 Co., with their present means,
can furnish 10000 watches per annpnh,
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