The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-19
WALTHAM
WATCHES
To Buyers Of Watches Everywhere.

The greater part Of the jewellers Of the United
States keep WalthRm Watches and cordially re,
commend them to their PENSIONERS, notwithstand
ing the fact Ghat less profit is made on these
watches than 90 any others generally sold by tn,
trade. The reason Of this is, that the roputa,
| ton Of the WRltham Watch renders it an easy
sale, and the result is that, although tho dealer
| does not make as much money on zach indivi-
! dual watch rs he may on the sale Of other watch
e. ho is still the gamer through larger and live
| ler sales ThoSe are some, however, among the
trade who do not give the WaIthAm Watch that
/ hoarty support which it deserves. This portion
! portion Of the trade fancy there is more money
to be made By dealing in watches about which
the public arc ignorant, and in which there is
less competition, and are content to make an
occasional sale OF such watches at large profit
It il this class Of dealers who, when asked about
Watham Watches, use that kind of language
which Leafs the customer finally to buy Just such
a watch asis the most profitable for the dealer
to sell.
orthe information Of persons about TO buy a
watch and who may be unfavorably affected by
the representations Of those uDfri~"Aiy 70 our
wa,ohos, we call Attention to the following sug-
sosuons:
Since the manufacture Of watches was initia.
ted at Waltham, the company have and sold
about 400, 900 watches, In every town and
village Of the country some weqrer Of Wal
than Watch may be found. Let the party about
h,,.. IL tLt
this question:
HAS YOUR WATCH GIVEN YOU Salts
FACTION
We are not afraid to ask those wishing to buy
watch to guide themselves by the owner. Be-
ing satisfied as to the quality Of the watch, the
ouyer has now only to satisfy himself that the
Ws,thAm Watches are THE CHEAPEST as
well as the best On this head we have few
words to say:
Itis we'll known fact In manufacturing, that
the greater the number Of articles manufactured
by one establishment, the smaller win be the
cost Of each individual article. Keeping this In
view, our policy has always been to sell our pro-
ducts at the lowest possible price in order to Sc.
cure large sales and thus enable us to InanufaO-
tuFe watches at minimum cost WEBBLIEVE
IN SMALL PROFITS AND A LARGE BUsI-
NESS. bis policy we have successfully ar
red out aad the result is, that to-day we manu-
facture tv oe aS many watches as ell the other
factories the United STATES put together.
We can, therefore, afford to sell Cheaper than
they do, and actually do sell Twenty-Five per
cent. Cheaper than they do, quality for quail
ity.
We Wau.i further remark that in increasing
our productions We have constantly improved hI
QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. We have
had the rafusal Of nearly all inven ton intended
to improve time-pieces and have adopted ell
those, an hose only, which have proved to he
really vs. liable. We have retained in our en-.
Floymeut every hesd of department we have
ever had whose services we're OF any importance
TO the company, and our corps of designers and
master mechanics cannot be equsled in this or
any other country. In addition to this we make
gold and silver cases. not only for our own move
ments, bu. for those Of other factories, ours being
the only establishment that turns out watches
complete every respect.
AS these watches are for sale by the trade gen
orally throus bout the United States, aud at re-
tail profit made most honorable by compcti tiou
the company invariably decline orders Of retail
character.
ROBBINS d APPLETON,
General Agents,
1sa aEosdwsYs ~. Y.