The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-05-03
A MEXICAN WATCH COMPANY
GOLD IND SILVER W.aTCHES.
OFFICE JOHN A. sTODDART, NO. All
CHESTNUT STREET, PH1LADEL-
PHIA, PENN'A.

Attention is invited to the following e.
statement and the accompanying tesfimoni- q
ais in favor of these 60
CELEBRATED .4.NERIC.4.TR.aTCHES.
A Gold Medal was awarded the Company by the
Massachusetts Mechanical Association, 1855. A
Gold Medal also awarded them by the Amer
lean Institute at New York, in 1857. The Conpa-
ny also received the First Premium-a Gold Medal
from the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, in
1858.
These Watches have now been in the market for
nearly ten years, during which time they have heen
tested 10
ACC URACY, DURABILITY AND RELIABIL-
ITY,
IN every conceivable manner, and have prove
themselves be the most satisfactory time peces
ever offered to the public.
This result has been brought about by stlic. ap-
PHI cation OF mechanical science to the construc tion
OF the watch from its very inception, rendering it,,
when flushed
ENTHUSIASTICALLY CORRECT,
IN all proportions, and necessarily perfect time
keeper as II is possible to 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 introduceda
NEW STYLE OF W.4TCH
elaborately finished, and thinner than any we have
heretofore produced, with several improvements
calculated to secure the greatest accuracy of pefoT
nance, and to prevent the usual accidents and de-
Fangements 10 which foreign watches are liable.
Letter from Paul .Norphy, the Cele5rated
Ch'ss Player,
New YoRE, Oct. Is, 1850.
Mr.. R. ROBBINS, Treas. Am. Watch Co.:
Dear Sr:-The American Watch, No. $3.50
presented me by the New York Chess Club proved
TO be most reliable and accurate time keeper-al-
most unnecessarily so for ordinary purposes. 1t 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 perfo or
nance II was set June Sd correctly:
June IS, fast4 seconds Aug. Is, fast ls seconds.
Juiy |, do Sept /, % do
IS, 20 do -. Is, % do
Aug. l, 10 do Oct. /, 80 do
give you PERMISSION to mnke such use of This
statement as you may think proper.
am, with respect, yours truly,
PAUL MORPHY
The foHQw,ng is from .lfr. Porter, tie ,vsH
kao0n Marine Chronometer and Watch
Maker.
BosrOs, Sept. %, 1859.
r. +. ROBBINS, Treas. Am. Watch Co.
Dear Sir 81 have sold during the last wear a
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 toHowing named gentlemen mag be refer
red TO an relation to these Watches.
Hon. Ha paibal 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, No rman Wizard, Wis, DR.. J. Marion Sims,
Charles Hammond, Phil'a., Prof. Bartlett, West
Point, Or. Ammi Brown, Boston, Lieut.. Henry A.
Wise, U. S. N, Col. w j. Harden, U. S. A.. S.
Lreneus Prime, d. D. White Plains, Col. T. B.
Thorpe.