The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-23
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To Buyers Of Watches Everywhere.

| The greater part Of the jewellers Of the United
States keep Walthnm Watches, and cordially re-
commend them TO their customers, notWithstand,
| ing the fact that less profit is made on these
watches than ON any others generally sold by the
| trade. The reason OF this is, that the reputs.
tion Of the Waltham Watch renders it an easy
sale, and the result is that, although the dealer
does not make as much money on each indivi-
dual watch as he may on the sale Of other watch
es, he is Gttll the gamer through larger and live
ler sales. There are some, however among the
trade who do not give the Waltham Watch that
hearty support which it deserves. This portion
portion Of the trade fancy there is more money
to he made by dealing in watches about which
the public are ignorant, and In which there is
less competition, and are content to make an
occasional sale Of such watches at a large profit
1t 10 this class Of dealers who, when asked about
Wslthsm Watches, use that kind Of language
which leads the customer finally to buy just such
watch asis the most profitable for the dealer
TO sell.
orthe information Of persons about 20 buy t.
watch; and who may be unF~v orably affected by
tho rer r..sutationI of those unfrieudly to our
Wa;cheS, we call attention to the following sug-
geStions!
Since the manufacture Of watches was initia.
ted at WslthAm, the company have and sold
about 400, 900 watches. In every town and
village Of the country some wg4rer Of Wal
than Watch may be found. Let the party about
to buy ask this owner of an American Watch
this question:
HAS YOUR WATCH GIVEN YOU Salts
FACTION
We are not afraid to ask those wishing to buy
Watoh to guide themselves by the owner Be-
ing satisfied as to the quality of the watch, the
buyer has now only to satisfy himself that the
Wsltham Watches are THE CHEAPEST O.
well as the bOst On this head we have few
words to say:
Hisawell 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 SO.
cure large sales, and thus enable Us to msnufao-
tuEe watches at minimum cost. WEBELIEyE
IN SMALL PROFITS AND A LARGE BUsI-
NESS. This policy we have successfully car
ried out, aud The result is, that to-day we manu-
faeture tWceSs many watches as all the other
factories IN the United Stales 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 would further remark that In Increasing
our productions We have constantly improved It,
QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. We have
had the refusal Of nearly all nven tons intended
TO improve me-pieees, and have adopted all
those, AMI those ouly, which have proved to be
really valuable. We have retained in our en-.
FIoymsnt every bead of dep srtment We have
ever mad whose services were OF any Importance
10 the conf any, and our corps Of designers and
master mechanics cannot be equaled in this or
any other country. In addition to this we make
gold snd silver cases, not only for our own move
ments but for those Of other factories, our, benx
the only establishments that turns opt u.,obs,
complete in every respect.
As these watches are for sale by the trade gen
orally throughout the United States, and a, re-
tail Prohs made most honorable by cOmpeti ton
the company invariably decline orders of rst.Il
character.
3oS9IMR 4 ARPL1ToHg,
General Agsass,
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