The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-12-04
AMERICAN WATCHES,
MADE BY THE
AMERICAN WATCH C0MP'NY,
AT. WALTHAM, MASS

Attention is invited to the following statement
aud the accompanying letters of recommendation
and testimonials, in favor of these celebrated
Watches
Gold Medal was awarded this Company 10y the
American Institute at New York in 1857.
The Company also received the first premium a
gold medai-from the Franklin Institute, Phila
delphia in 1858.
These Watches have been in market tor nearly
ten yeArs during which time they have been tested
accuracy, durability and reliability IN overy
conceivable manner, AMI have proved themselves to
TO the most satisfactory timepieees offered to
the public.
This result has been brought about by strict
application Of mechanical science to the construc-
ton OF the Watch from its very inception, render
TX it when finished, mathematically correct in all
It's proportions, and necessarily perfect time
piece ~ II is possible TO make.
The Company have tested their Watches in
many Instances, by actual daily noting, and the
esult Of this test has been that they have exhibit
a rate equal in regularity to the best marine
hrOnometer.
From The Prairie Fdr1ner, Oct 1850.
AMERICAN WATcnBs.-Nearly year ago, We re-
ceivsd from AIessrs Robbins Il Appleton, General
Agents of the American Watch Company, and
pad for "a good looking Watch, g warranted" with
the request that aer thOro ugh trial we should say
" har We thought of it, editorially. 1t has been
our constant companion nearly a year. We have
no fault to find with the way it has tOked the time
We DO not udni Il better he-peee than this has prov
eI thus far. Once regulated (and we regulated it
ourseIf il has scarcely varied half minute
month from transit time" Added to its quality
~ a good time keeper, it is honestly and substan-
italy made Were we going to purchase, we should
rrrf.r AN American Watch.
OFFICE OF THE TRIBUNE.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27th, 1859.
A.,eriroD Watch Company,
GrxrIEMEN Having carried one Of your Watch
IS for eighteen months, can say confidently that
they will d. and may be bought with the assurance
that they will keep time. 1 believe the Watches
unsurpassed. HORACE GREELEY.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 1860.
GfNrLEMEN In reply to yours of 25th ulto., we
take pleasure in stating that the American Watch
now in use upon our railroad has varied only six
seconds, in little over six weeks.
S.W. & ". A. ToRREY,
Contractors on the Iar. & Del. Bay L. Il.
u" Nrssrs. ROBBINS d APPLETON.
BOsTON, Sept. 9th, 1859.
Mn. L. 4. RoBRINs, Treasurer american Watch Co.,
DEAR SIR:-It gives great pleasure to comply
with your request for a report of the performance
OF the American Watch purchased of you Dec. ?,
s5S. 1t set on that day, and its variation
true time to the 10th Of February, 1852 when lot
il run down, ten seconds fast. From that time
10 the present it has with nearly perfect stead
mess, having during the eight months remained
AT from seven to nine seconds fast, and this with
uncommonIy rough usage. 1 can -ommend your
manufacture in the highest terms.
Yours, JAMES II. CLAFP,
Firm Of Clapp, Fuller Brown, Bankers, Boston.
CAUrIoS.--As our Watch is extensively
eonnterleted by foreign manufacturers, we have to
inform the public that witch is Of produc-
tion which is unaccompanicd by certificate oil
geuwneuess, bearing the number of the watch,
and signed by our Treasurer, r. E. Robbins, or by
predecessors, Appleton, Tracy Co.
As these watches for sale by jewelers. gener-
ally throughout the Union, the American Watch
Company do not solicit orders for single watches.
ROBBINS 4 APPLETON,
Wholesale gents, No. ls2 Broadway, N. Y.
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