The Portland daily press., 1869-02-27
WALTHAM
WATCHES.
To Buyers of Watches Everywhere

The greater part of the jewellers of the United
States keep Waltham Watches, and cordially re
commend them to their customers notwithstand,ng
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 reputation OF the Waltba
Watch renders it an easy SALE and the result ia that
although the dealer does not make as mucb monev
on each individual watch as he may on the sale Of
other watches, he is still the gamer throuob Iaroer
and hveier sales There are some, however. among
the trade, who do not give the waltham Watch that
hearty support which it deserves. This portion OF
the trade fancv there Is more money to be made by
dealing In watches about which the public are ig-
norant' aud In which there is less competition, and
are content TO make an occasional sale of such
Watches az large profit. 1t is this class Of deal
ers who' when asked about Watham Watches, use
tnst Kind OF language which leads the customer f.
many 70 Duy just such watch as is the most profit
able for the dealer TO SELL
For the Imagination Of persons abont to buy Q
watch, and who may be unfavorably affected by the
representations of those unfriendIy to our watehe
we call attention to the following suggestions:
Since the manufacture of watches was initiated at
Waltham, the Company have made and sold about
100000 watches, In every town and village OF the
country some wearer Of waltham Watch may be
tound. Let the party about to buy ask this owner
OF an American Watch this question:
HAS YOUR WATCH GIVEN YOU SATISFAC-
IioNT Weare not afraid to advise those wishing
to buy watch to guide themselves by the answer
Being satisfied as to the quality of the watch, the
Duyer mas now only to satisfy himself that the
Waltham Watches are THE CHEAPEST as well
as the best On this head we have few words to
say
Its well known fact In manufacturing, that the
greater the number OF articles manufactured by one
establishment the smaller will be the cost of each
Individual article. Keeping this In vew our policy
has alway been to sell our products at the lowest
possible price in order to secure large sales, and
thus enable us to manufacture watches at a mini
mum cost. We believe i'm small profits and
n large business. This policy we have success
uly carried out, and the result is that to-day we
manufacture twice as many watches as all the other
factories in the United States put together. We
can, therefore, aasrd 90 sell cheaper than
they do, and actually do sell Twenty-ave
per cent. cheaper than they do, quality for
qualify.
We would urther remark that in increasing our pro-
ductons wehave constantly improved tsouality and
It's variety We have had the refusal Of nearly all in
ventions intended to improve time pieces and have
adopted all those, and those only which have proved
to be really valuable. We have retained in our en-
ployment every head of department. we have ever
had, whose services were of any Importance to the
company, and our present corps OF designers and
master mechanics cannot be equaled in this or any
other country. In addition to this we make gold
and silver cases, not only for our own movements
but for those Of other factories ours being the only
establishment thatturns out watches complete in
every respect.
As these Watches are tor sale by the trade gener-
erap throughout the United States, and at retail
profit made: most reasonable by competition, the
company invariably decline orders of retail char
ccter.
Robbins 6 Appleton,
General Agents,
sNieseod&wim lS9 Broadway, NY.