The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-05-07
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10 Buyers Of Watches Everywhere,

The greater part Of the jeWellt Of the United
States keep Waltham Watches, and cordially re-
commend them to theircustomers. 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 IL, that the reputs-
ton Of the Waltham Watch renders it an easy
sale. and the result is that, although the dealer
docs not make as much money on each indivi-
dual watch rs he may on the sale of other watch
ca, he is still tho gamer through larger and live
lior sales. There are some however, among the
trade, WHO DO not give tho WalthAm Watch that
hearty 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 are ignorant, and in which there IS
less competition, and are content to make an
occasional sale Of such watches Of large profit.
II is this class of dealers who, when asked about
Waltham Watches, use that kind Of language
which leads the customer finally to buy Just such
a watch As is the most pro1ta lie for the dealer
to GEL.
or the Information Of persons about to buy a
watch; and who may be uufavorably affected by
the reuresentattous Of those uufrieudly to our
wR,ohe', we call attention to the following sus
gestions:
Since the manufacture Of watches was Inita
ted at Wathsm, the company have and sold
about 400, 600 watches. In every town aud
village Of the country some wearer Of a 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
a watch to guide themselves BY the owner. Be-
ing satisfed az to tho quality Of the watch, the
0uyer has now only to satisfy himself that the
Waltham Watches are THE CHEAPEST as
vel, as the best On this head we have few
words to say:
| Iii. well known fact In manufacturing, that
/ the greater the number Of articles manufactured
| by oue establishment, the smaller will be the
/ cost # each Individual article. Keeping this in
yisw. our policy has always been to sell our pro-
ducts at the lowest possible price in order to Sc
cure ilrge sales and thus enobls ia to manufac-
ture watches ct minimum cost. We BELIEVE
! IN SMALL PROFITS AND A LARGE BUSI-
! NESS This policy we have successfully car.
r,rt u4, and he result is, that to-day we manu-
taoturg twice as many watches as all the other
ts'soros in the United States put together.
We can, therefore, afford to sell Cheaper than
tAeJ do, and actually do sell Twenty five per
! 81 40 F,r
ity.
We would further remark that in Increasing
! our productions We have constantly improved lis
| QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. We have
had the refusal Of nearly all inventions nter iei
to Improve time-p pieces, and have adopted oil
those, AMI those only, which have proved to be
really va liable. We have retained in our cm.
| Floymeut every head of a department We have
ever had, whose services were Of any Importance
to the Pauy, and our corps Of designers and
master mechanics cannot be equaled 10 this or
| any other country. In addition TO this we rpake
gold aud silver cases, n OF only for our own move
ment' but for those Of other factories ours being
the ouly establishment that turns out watches
complete IN every respect.
As these watches are for sale by the trade gen.
orally throughout the United States, aud 81 re-
tail profit made most honorable By competition
the company invariably decline orders of retail
| character
ROBBINS & APPLETON
General Agents,
asa Broadway, ~. Y,
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