Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1861-01-16
American Watches
MADE BY THE
american Watch Company
At WALTHAM, MASS

Attention isinvite TO The following state
ment and accompanying letters OF reeommen-
dation and testimoni ais, i. favor ofthese cello
brated Watches.
gold medal was awarded the Company by
the American Institute, at New York, in 1851.
The company also received the First Premi-
una gold me1al-from the franklin Insti
tute, Philadelphia, In 1853.
These watches have now been in tho market
fornearIy ten years, during which time they
have been tested as to accuracy, durability and
reIIabilityin every conceivable manner, and
have proved themselves to be the most satisfae
tory timc-pieces ever offered to the public.
This result las been brought about by strict
application of eshanical science to the in.
sPeetiOn of the watch from its very inception,
rendering II wher dni shed, mathematicaLy cor
rect in all its proportions, and necessarily as
perfect a time keeper as it 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 exhib
tied rate equal ia regularity TO the best ma
rine chronometer-
N.B.--we havejust introduced EKw sTYyE
of Watch, elabortely finished and thinner than
any have hitherto introduced, with several
Improvements calculated to insure the greatest
accuracy ofperformanee, and to prevent the
usual accidents and arrangements 10 which
foreign watches are liable.
The following is from Mr.. Porter, the we'll
Snewn Marine Chronometer and Watch maker:
Bosros, April 90. 1860.
Mr. ROBINS, Treasurer, &c:
Dear sir:--Sinee my note to you OF Septem
er, 1859, have sold number Of your Com
any's watches, and hear good reports from
them without exception. They give me
trouble and my customers every satisfaction
Recently ship master 10 whom sold one last
year, called to say thai his Chronometor having
broke down at sea, he navigated his vessel
safely nome by his waltham watch.
Yours Truly, kGEO 4 PORTER.
Office Of The Tribune,
New York, Oct %, 1859.
merican Watch Company. waltham:
Gentlemen: Having carried one OF your
atches for the las eighteen months, can say
n6dently that they will dc. and may be bought
it'll assurance, that they will keep time. be-
Iieve the watch unsurpassed.
Horace GRExLEy.
Book Room, No. 2Ol Mulberry ST.,
New York, Feb 8, 1860.
X RossrNs, 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
merican Watch Company and that ii has given
perfect satisfaction as time keeper. Judging
from the one I have do not hesitate to pre-
diet that the day is not far distant when watch
es made in the United Safes will supercede all
others. JAMS FLoY, ID.
NIftor, RIuH Oct 1870
X ROBBINS, Esq,
Dear Sir-The three watches Of your manu-
facture which I purchased on my plantation,
have proved to be the most correct time-keep-
ers have ever known. 1 gave my head servant
my head carpenter and my head engineer each
one OF them, and since they have been in their
respective possession, every thing on the plan
tation has moved like CLOCK work, in con.e-
ouence OF the extreme accuracy and regularity
with which these watches perform.
Yours truly, LEWIS MOBRrs.
CHIcAsO, lLL., Marcel 1863.
American watch Company:
have tested with extreme care the running
ofthe watch bought of you, now nearly a year
since, and accurate and equablc has been its
performances that have thought it would in
terest you and all Others familiar with horology
to see a record ofits variations. 1t was finally
to true time AFTER it had bHen regulating in
my possession two months.
Aug Jug IS. Sc Dec Is b.: % sc
Since which time its average monthly variations
has not exceeded six secands.
NORMAN WtAND.
CAurIoS.-is our watch is now extensively
counter leited by foreign manufactures, we have
to inform the public that watch is OF our pro
duction which Is unaccompanied by certificate
of genuiness, bearing the number OF the watch,
and ssgned b. our Treasurer. X. z. RoBBIss, or
predecessors, Appleton, Tracy & Co.
As the watches are for sale by jewelers. gener-
ally through out the Unior, we do not solicit ior-
ders for single watches.
Fot the American Watch Company.
ROBBINS e. APPLETON.
WHOLESALE AGENTS,
No. 1s2 broadway, New York.
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