The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-03-11
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wALTHA"
WATCHES!
70 buyers Of Watches EvSrywhOrs.

The greater part Of the jewellers Of the United
gsstos keep Waltham Watches, and cordially re-
commend them to their customers, notwithstand
ing the fact that less profit is made on 'ho'e
wstches than on any others generally sold by the
trade. Tho reason Of this 10, that the rePu'S'
tion Of the WaIthGm Watch renders It an easy
sale, and the result is that although the dealer
does not make a. much money on each indivi-
dual watch a. be may on the sale Of other watch
es, he IL still the gamer through larger and live
ler sales. There are some, however, among the
trade, who do not give the WalthGm Watch that
hearty support which Il deserves. This portion
| portion Of the trade fancy there ID 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 Sucf watches Vt Alarse profit
1t is this class VI dealers who, whom asked about
WalthAm Watches, use that kind Of language
which leads the customer finally to buy just such
a watch as is the most prodta lie for the dealer
| to sell.
| orthe information Of persons about to buy
watch; and who may be untavorably affected by
the representations Of those unfreudly to our
vsOhes, we call attention to the following sug-
geItions:
Since the manufacture Of watches was initia'
ted at WGlthAm, the company have aud sold
about 400 900 watches. In every town and
village Of the country some wssreT Of n Wal
than Watch may DO 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 satisfied as to the quality Of the watch, the
ouyer has now only to satisfy himself that the
Waltham Watches are THE CHEAPEST as
well as the best. On this head wo have few
words to say:
Itisawel known fact 10 manufacturing, that
the greater the number Of articles manufactured
by one establishment, the smaller will b. the
cost Of each individual article Keeping this 10
view, our policy has always been to sell our pro,
duots at the lowest possible price in order to SO
euro large cav t,lizSss Enable Us to manufao
tarfs lies on the Dave, cost "EBELlHNf
IN SI'''' o' '"s D1sSeAND A LARGE BUsI
NESS. This policy we have suooesSfully car
riod out, and the result is, that to-day we manu-,
faoturo twice as many watches as ell the other
factories in the United States put together
We can, therefore, afford to sell Cheaper than
they do, and actually do sell Twenty-Five per
oent. Cheaper than they do, quality for quail.
ity.
We would further remark that in increasing
our productions We have constantly improved III
QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. We bAv,
had the refusal Of nearly all invep tons intended
to improve time-pieces, and have adopted al
those, and those only, which have proved to be
really valuable. We have retained in oug en-.
floymout every head Of a department we have
ever had, whose services were OF any Importance
TO the company, and our corps of designers anC
master mechanics cannot be equaled in this o
J any other country In addition to this we max
gold aud silver cases, not only for our own move
ments, but for those Of other factories ours bein
t the only establishment that turns out watohe
complete in every respect.
7 As these watches are for sale by the trade gen
orally throughout the United States, and at re
tail profit made most honorable by competition
the company invariably decline orders of retail
character.
ROBBINS d APPLETON
;, General Agents,
d ia BroadWaU n "