Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1861-01-02
SPECIAL NOTICES.
American Watches /!
MADE BY TIE
american Watch Company

AT WALTHAM, MASS.
Attention is invited to the following state
mont and accompanying letters OF recommen-
dstion and testimonials, In favor Of these cole
brated Watches.
A gold medal was awarded the Company by
the American Institutes, at New York, in 1857.
The company also received the First Premi-
una gold me1al-from the franklin Insu.
tute, Philadelphia, In 1s5s.
These watches have now been in the market
fornearlytsn years, during which time they
have been tested as to accuracy, durability and
reliability in every conceivable manner, and
have proved themselves to be the most satisf.c-
tory time-pieees ever offered to the public.
This result has been brought about by a strict
application OF n echanical science to the in
speetion ofthe watch from its very inception,
rendering it when finished, mathematicspiy
rect in all its proportions. AID necessarily as
perfect time keeper as 1t 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 exhb-
/. II rate equal in regularity to the best ma
Inc csronometer.
N.B.--we havejus. introduced NEW srYYx
Of Watch, elabortely finished and thinner than
any we have hitherto introduced, with several
improvements calculated to insure the greatest
accuracy ofperform anee, and 10 prevent the
usual accidents and arrangements 10 which
foreign watches are liable.
The following is from Mr.. Porter, the well.
Gnewn Marine Chronometer and Watch maker:
BosroS, April 20, 1850.
Mr.. K ROBINS, Treasurer, &c:
Dear sir:--Since my note TO you of Septem,
er,Is59, 1 have sold a number of your Corn
naany's watches, and hear good reports from
Them without exception. hey<give me no
trouble and my customers every satisfactio
Recently ship master 10 whom sold one last
year, called to say tina, his Chronometor having
broken down at sea, he navigatod his vessel
safely home by his wsltham watch.
Yours Truly, tGEo PORTER.
Office OF The Tribune,
New York, Oct %, 1859.
meriean Watch Company, Waltham:
Gentlemen: Having carried one of your
atches for the las eighteen months, / can say
nidentiy that they will do, and may be bought
it'll assurance, that they will keep time. be-
lieve The watch unsurpassed.
HORACE GREELEY.
Book Room, No. 20) Mulberry ST.,
New York, Feb.o, 1850.
ERosBrxs, Treasurer Amer. Watch Co.
Dear Sir: take great pleasure in being able
to certify that for the last ten months 1 have
carried a watch from the mandatory OF the A.
merican Watch Company and that it has given
perfect satisfaction as time keeper. Judging
from the one have, 1 do not hesitate to pre-
dict that the day is not far distant when watch
es made in the United States will supercede all
others. JANIS PLoY, ID.
Wilton Bluff, S c, Oct 90. 1859.
RE ROBBINS, Esq,
Dear Sir-The three watches OF yeur manu-
faeture which 1 purchased on my plantation,
have proved TO be the most correct time-keep-
crs have ever known. / 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 msved like clock work, in conse-
Quence Of the extreme accuracy and regularity
with which these watches perform.
Yours truly, LEWIS NoBRIs.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 1860.
American Watch Company
Ihave tested with extreme care the running
ofthe watch bought OF you, now nearly year
since, and so accurate and equsble has been It's
performances that have thought it would in
terest you and all others familiar with horology
TO sea record ofits variations. II was finally
to true time after it had bssn regulating IN
my possession two months.
June lost 4 sec Oct l....... ..lost sec
AugIs... 90 Dec I5........ Z" . -
Since which time Its average monthly variations
has not exceeded six seeands.
NoRuAx wIAED.
cAurIoS.-As our watch is now extensively
eounterfeited by foreign manufactures, we have
TO inform the public that no watch is OF our pro
duction which Is unaecompanied by eertiheats
of genuiness, bearing the number OF the watch,
and ssgned by our Treasurer. r. z. ROBBINS, OF
by rredesessors, Appleton, Tracy & Co.
As the watches arc for sale by Jewellers gener.
atty throughout the UnIor, we do not solicit Tor
ders for single watches.
Fot the American Watch Company.
ROBBINS a. APPLETON
whoLEskLE AGENTS,
Noise Broadway, Now York,