The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-08-23
A MEXICAN WATCH COMPANY
GOLD .4ND SILVER PATCHES.
OFFICE JOHN A. STODDART, NO. All
CHESTNUT STREET, PHlLADEL-
PHIA, PENN'A.

Attention is invited to the folio wing e
statement and the accompanying tesimoni- e. .
ais in favor Of these Gs=sa&
CELEBRATED Il .hFRiC EH.AI CHES.
A Gold Medal was awarded the Company by the
Massachusetts Mechanical Association, 1856. A
Gold Medal was also awarded them by the Amer
icau Institute at New York, IN 1857. The Compa-
ny also received the First Premium-a Gold Medal
from the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, in
1858.
These Watches have now been in he market for
nearly ten years, during which time they have heen
tested as TO
acc URACY, D DURABILITY AND RELIABLE
ITY,
IN every conceivable manner, and have proved
themselves to be the most satisfactory time pieces
ever offered TO the public.
This result has been brought about by stIict APP
p cation of mechanical science to the construction
of the watch from its very inception, rendering it,
when flushed
ALPHABETICALLY Correct,
in all proportions, and necessarily perfect time
keeper as it Is possible 20 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 have exhibited
rate equal in regularity to the best marine chro-
nometer.
N. B.-We have just introduced
NEW STYLE OF W.ATCH
elaboIately finished, and thinner than any we have
heretofore produced, with several improvements
calculated 10 the greatest accuracy Of peror-
nance, and to prevent the usual accidents and de-
rangements to which foreign watches are liable.
Letter from Paul .uorphy, the Celebrated
Chsss Player
New Yoak, Oct. IS, 1859.
MIR. R. f. ROBBINS, Treas. Am. Watch Co.
Dear Sir The American Watch, No. 9240
presented me by the New York Chess Club, proved
to be most reliable aud accurate time keeper-a-
most unnecessarily so for ordinary purposes. It is
nearly five months since il came into my pos
session. and during that period its variation from
standard time has been but trifie 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.
July l, do Sept. /, % do
Aug. T. /, iS S do do Oct. =, !, % do DO
give you permission to mike such of this
statement as you may think proper
am, with respect, yours truly,
PAUL MORPHY.
The toiloV,ng as from Mr. Porter, the ,oeil
knorn Marine Chronometsr and Watch
Maker.
Bosron, Sept 28, 1859.
r. Z. 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 to the purchasers.
GEORGE Z. PORTER.
The fokiow'ng named gentlemen mag be refer
red 10 an relation 10 these Watches.
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, PhlI'a., Prof Bartlett, West
Point, Dr.. Ammi Brown, Boston, Lieut. Henry A.
Wise, U. S. N, Col. w J. Harden, u. s. A, S.
lreueus Prime, D. D. White Plains, Col. T. B.
Thorpe.