The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-06-14
A MERICAN WATCH COMPANY
GOLD AND SILVER BITCHES.
OFFICE JOHN A. STODDART, NO. All
CHESTNUT STREET, PHlLADEL-
PHlA, PENN'A.

AtteAtion is invited 10 the folio wing e.
statement and the accompanying tesfimoni- G. D
ais in favor Of these GA|'
CELEBRATED .4.uERIC.7.s'W.fTCH HE'S,
A Gold Medal was awarded the Company by the
Massachusetts Mechanical Association, 1856.
Gold Medal was also awarded them by the Amer
lean Institute at New York, in 1857. The Compa-
nv also received the First Premum-a Gold Medal
from the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, in
1855.
These Watches have now been in the market for
nearly ten years, during which time they have Feen
tested
acc URAcT, DURABILITY AND RELIABIL-
TTY,
IN every conceivable manner, and have proved
themselves to be the satisfactory time pieces
offered TO the public.
This result has been brought.about by strict ap-
pl cation Of mechanical science to the construction
Of the watch from its very inception, rendering IT,
when flushed
.H.4THEJM8TIC.4LLY CORRECT,
IN ali proportions, and necessarily perfect time
keeper ii is possible 10 make.
The Company have tested their Watches, in
many instances, By actual daily noting, and the re-
suit Of this test has been that they hive exhibit ed
nometer
N B.-We have just inIodpceda
NEW STYLE OF W.fTCR
elaboIately finished, and thinner than any We have
heretofore produced with several Improvements
calculated to the greatest accuracy of perfor
nance, and TO prevent the usual accidents and de-
rangements 10 which foreign watchts are liable.
Letter from Paul .Norphy, the Celebrated
Chss Player
New YORk, Oct. Is, 1859.
Mr. r. F. RoBBINs, Treas. Am. Watch Co.
Dear Sir The American Watch, No. 9240.
presented me by the New York Chess Club, proved
30 be most reliable and accurate time keePeT-al
most unnecessarily so for ordinary purposes. il is
now nearly FIVE months since il came into my pos
session, and during that period its variation from
standard time has been but trife more than half
minute. The following is record of its perfor-
nance. 1t was set June Sd correctly;
June Is, fast4 seconds. Aug. IS, fast is seconds.
jury |, 6 do Sept !, % do
Aug. T. T. .iS do Oct. /, /, 81 DO do
give you PERMISSION to mike such of this
statement as you may think propeT.s
am, with respect, yours truly,
PAUL MORPHY.
The feiOw,ng is from Mr. Porter, the veA
knopn Marine Chronompter and Watch
Maker.
BosrON, Sept. 2s, 1859.
X. f. ROBBINS, Treas. Am. Watch Co.
Dear SIR IL have sold during the last year
considerable number of Watches of the Waltham
manufacture and am happy to say that all of them
without exception, have fulfilled my guaranty, and
have given satisfaction 10 the purchasers.
GEORGE f. PORTER.
The totiow,ng named gentlemen mag be refer
red TO in relation to these Matches.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, Maine, John G. SAKE,
Vermont, N. P. Willis, N. Y, Hon. N. P. Banks,
Massachus etts, A. L. Hamilton, Tennessee, James
W Simonton, Cal. Carlos D. Stuart, Long Island,
Townsend Harris, Japan, Horace Greeley, Frank
Leslie, Norman Wizard, Wis., DR.. J.. Marion Sims,
Charles Hammond, Phil'a., Prof Bartlett, West
Point, Dr. Ammi Brown, Boston, Lieut.. Henry A.
Wise, U. S. N, Col. w j. Harden, U. S. A, S.
Ireneus Prime, d. D. White Plains, Col. T. B.
Thorpe.