Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-12-12
SPECIAL NOTICES
American Watches
MADE By The
american watch Company
WALT4AM NhSS


Attention is invited to tho following state
ment and accompanying letters OF recommen-
dalton and testimonials, is favor orthese colo
brated Watches.
A gold medal was awarded the Company by
the American Institute, at New York, In 1857.
The company also received the First Premi-
una gold meial--from the franklin Inst
tute, Philadelphia, in 1853.
These watches have now been In tho market
fOrnearly ten years, during which time they
have been tested as to accuracy, durability and
reliability In every conceivable manner, and
have proved themselves to be tho most satisfac-
tory time-pieees ever offered TO the public.
This result has been brought about by strict
application of n echanieal science to the in
srection ofthc watch from Its very inception,
rendering IL when nished, automatically cor
rect ia al its proportions, and necessarily as
perfect a time keeper as u is possible to make.
The Company have tested their watches in
many instances by actual daily noting, and the
result OF this test has been that they have cxhib
tied rate equal Ia regularity to the best ma
riue chrohometer.
n. B.--We havejust introduced NEW sTYYE
of Watch, olabortely finished and thinner than
any we have hitherto introduced, with several
improvements calculated to insure the greatest
accuracy ofperformance, and to prevent the
usual accidents and arrangements 10 which
foreign watches are liable.
The following is from Mr.. Porter, the well-
known Marine Chronometer and Watch maker:
BosroS, April 90, 1860.
Mr. X RoBBISs, Treasurer, &c:
Dear sir:--since my note TO GU OF scptem'
Der, 1859, have sold a number Of your Com
pany's watches, and hear good reports from
them without exception. They give me no
trouble and my customers every satisfaction
Recently ship master 10 whom sold one last
year, called 10 say II al his Chronometor having
broken down at sea, no navigatcd his vessel
safely home by his Waltham watch.
Yours Truly, GEO PoRrKR.
Office OF The Tribune,
New York, Oct "a, 1859.
American Watch Company. Waltham:
Gentlemen: Having carried one of your
Watches for the last eighteen months, can say
confidently that they will do and may be bought
with assurance, that they will keep time. Ibc-
lieve the watch unsurpassed.
HORACE GREELEY.
Book Room, No. e0) Mulberry ST.,
New York, Feb. q, 1850.
X ROBBINS, Treasurer Amer. Watch Co.
Dear Sir: take great pleasure in being able
to certify that for the last ten months have |
carried a watch from the mandatory OF the A
mercan Watch Company and that IL has given
perfect satisfaction a time keeper. Judging |
from the one Ihavo, do not hesitate to pre- |
diet that the day is not far distant when watch
es made in the United States will supercede all |
others. JAMES FGoY, ID. ID.
Wilton Bluff, 5 c, Oct 20, 1859.
X ROBBINS, Esq,
Dear SiT-The three watches of your manu- |
fasturo which l purchased on my plantation,
havo proved to BIO the most correct time-keep- |
ers have ever known. gave my head servant |
my head carpenter and my head engineer each |
ono of them, and since they have been in their /
respective possession, every thing on the plan
tation has moved like clock work, in Gonse-
quence of the extreme accuracy and regularity /
with which these watches perform.
Yours truly, LEWIS MoBRIs.
CHICAGO, ILL., March 1860.
American Watch Company:
have tested with extreme care tho running /
oftho watch bought Of you, now nearlya year
since, and so accurate and equable has been lis |
performances thai 1 have thought II would in
teres. you and all others familiar with horology |
to soc record OF its variations. II was finally |
set to true time after IT had been regulating in |
my possession two m onths.
June 5......lost & sec Oct 1....... ..lost see |
Aug l5-....-. 4" o q" Dec i5..--..- "
Since which limo its average monthly variations
has not exceeded six seeands.
NoRzAE WAND.
CAurIos-As our watch is now extensively |
eountereited by foreign manufactures, we have
to inform the public that no watch Is OF our pro-
duetion which is una accompanied by n certificate
Of genulncss, bearing tho number OF the watch,
and ssgned by our Treasurer. X. L. RoBBIxs, or |
by predecessors, Appleton, Tracy * co.
AS the watches are for sale by jewelers. soncr-
ally throughout the Unior, wo do not solicit ior-
ders for single watches.
FOt the American Watch Company.
RORBINs a. appleton.