The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-05-27
WALTHAM
WATCHES
To Buyers Of Watches Everywhere.

The greater part Of the jewellers Of the United
States keep WaItham Watches, and cordially re-
commend them TO their customers, notWithstand
ing the fact that less profit is made on thes,
watches than on any others generally sold by thu
trade. The reason Of this is, that the reputa
tIon Of the WslthSm Watch renders it an easy
sale, and the result is that, although the dealer
does not make as much money on each iudlyi-
dual watch as he may on the sale of other watch
e. be is still the gSiner through larger and live
lier sales. There are some, however, among the
trade, who do not give the WGlthAm Watch that
hearty support which it deserves. This portion
portion Of the trade fancy there is more money
30 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
osoAsion 81 sale Of such watches at large profit,
1t is this class of dealers who, when askeda about
Waltham Watches, use that kind of uguags
which leAiS the customer finally to buy just such
watch Nsts the most profitable for the dealer
to sell.
orthe information Of persons about to buy q
watch and who may be unfavorably affected by
the representations Of thos" ""'fienuiy TO oui
ws,ob... 80 sen attention to the following sug
gsstions
Since the manufacture Of watches was initia
ted at Wslthsm, tho company have and sold
shout 400, 900 watches. In every town and
village Of the country some wsarer 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
PACTION2
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
| buyer has now only to satisfy himself that the
WSlthsm Watches are THE CHEAPEST a.
well as the best. On tbis head we have few
words to say:
Iii well known fact In manufacturing, that
| the greater the number Of articles manu- featured
by one establishment, the smaller will be the
cost OF each individual article. Keeping this 10
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 manuiao.
ture watches at minimum cost. WE BELIEVE
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-
facture twice {" many watches a. all the Other
| factories in the United Sta.es put together
We can, therefore, afford to sell Cheaper thar
they do, and actually do sell twenty-five pei
cent. Cheaper than they do, quality for quail
| ity.
Wewould further remark that in increasing
our productions We have constantly improved III
QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. We hay,
had the refusal Of nearly ell inventions intended
TO improve time pieces, and have adopted o.
those, and those only, which have proved to b,
really valus6!e. We have retained in our en-
PIoyment every head Of department we hsv,
ever had, whose services were of any importance
70 the company, aud our corps Of designers and
master mechanics cannot be equRled in this o.
any other country. In addition to this we maxi
gold aud silver oates, n OF only for our own move
mens, but for thoseof other factories, ours beinl
tue only es'SO.lshment that turns out Watchs
complete in every respect.
As these watches are for sale BY the trade gen
orally throughoa! the United States, aud ct a re
tail profit made mos, honorable By competition
the company invariably decline orders Of s retail
| character.
2oSa1Ns 4 APPLET Y
General Ageats.
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