New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-28

.ttt up ud regulating of the movements, Is per
! io,med by hsndcrsft.
TIE value ard impar,srce Of the invea.ion s,i
s.tsbh- -bment in the United States Of Wrch making
b5 machinery may be Inferred by contrasting it with
statement taken from article iha. appeared in s'e
number of Tie Journal Of Commerce, in winch the
writer endesvors TO give the impression that Wstch-
making by machinery has long been prsetced in
Switzerland and that the Waltz am establishment is
but a copy of TIE watch factories Of Geneva. The
| writer say,:
| Some French wstchmaker,. it is true, have OBJ
tsined European celebrity let ie~ years ago, II
stated by NJ Arago, that eXamn alton into the
watch trade Of Paris elected the fac. that not ten
watches made in that city in tie eourse OF a
year; the immense consumption Of France being fur
nished from Switzerland snd the Swiss works being
only examined and rectifed by the French mann.
fact irers. Il is also fac, well known In certain
| quarters in Eogland ard Switzerland tnat compare
lively few Of the watches called English are Manu.
fsctured in Great Britain. Nearly all Of the at eJin-
der watches are purchased by British manufacturers
in Geneva and Neufchatel. Their names are stamped
upon these articles and the outside world buy them as
the industrial produces Of Albion The sale of Swiss
watches bss no5 by any means injured the trade in
resi- English watches. Fine cbronometers and those
large watches which simpler in their construction
than the SWISS n articls are made in Liverpool and
London"
The writer further states that watch making "by
machinery" has for tJfy ysars been prsctced in
Geneva, and that the idea of claiming matchmaking
by machinery American invention is absurd
But after reading the above extract, in which II ap
pears that France and England aided by Switzerland.
owe their Matchmaking reputation chiefly 20 syste-
matte false preteDses or gigantic scheme Of ws.ch-
stUfiipg, of which we poor Yankees sre made the
wholesale victims, it Will not be very difficult to per-
csive the difference in simplicity and value betweeo
the European and American methods OF manufacture.
II, as the writer says, Swiss watches are all made
by machinery and have been for fifty years. it seems
somewhat singular that not one in twenty of those
bearing either the Swiss French or Epglish mark do
or can be made to, keep time; while the American
watches, made by machinery are almost necessarily
good reliable time. keepers; the movements being set
up and regulated before leaving the mandatory, and
when sold 90 not require TO be examined and rected
in order TO make them keep tine.
In regard TO "chronometers and those large En-
"glish watches, which are simpler in their con-
"strucon than the Swiss article" it is only necessary
TO ssy that they constructed the principle of the
lever escspemeDt, with the fusee and chain arrange
ment and have from 600 TO 200 mole parts than the
Anne rican watch movements made by machinery which
also constructed the simplest and most effective
form of the patent lever escapement running freely
with less initial motive power by onethird than the
best English watches.
According to the Free-Trade article to which we
have alluded, it is very evident that must become
our own Matchmaker If we would save ourselves
from the mock auction practices so navely exposed
We il formed that more than II, 900 American
watch movements have been manufactured at Wal
than during the past year, and that Of this number
not single one has been returned on account Of i'm
perfection of workmanship or action.