The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-14
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 thoircustohers, notwithstAnd-
ing the fact that less profit is made on these
watches than any others generally sold by the
trade. The reason of thia IL, that the reputa-
tion Of she Walshsm Watch renders il an easy
sale. and tie rssa.; tg that, although the dealer
does not MAKE ~ u1:z =e-ey n esch indivi-
ila' wk.:A - - zly C :5s Ib,s o! other watch
Is, tGtta. 'a= El.rs: ;1cg lga larger And live
.erIS.eg. Easrs az Gazs. h5wsrsr, among the
trade who 1 no, give the Wa}tham Watch that
hesrty support which it deserves. This portion
portion Of the trade fancy there is more money
t. be- made by dealing 10 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 large profit
1t ia this class Of dealers who, when asked about
WAithsm Watches, use that Kind Of language
which leads the customer finally tobuy Just such
watch asIs the most prohlapl e for the dealer
70 sell.
iorthe information Of persons ABOUT to buy a
watch; and who may be unravorably affected by
| the represeutatlous Of thoso ''"'.'onaly 10 our
va,chos ~.~ ..-n auention TO the following sug-
gesttons:
Since the manufacture Of watches was inita
| ted at WsItham, the company have and sold
about 400,0 600 watches. In every town and
village Of the country some weqrer 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 not sfrad to ask tho'e wishing to buy
watch to guide themselves by the owner. Be-
Ing satisfied as to the quality of tho watch, the
buyer has now only to satisfy himself that the
Wathsm Watches are THE CHEAPEST as
well as the bOst. On this head we have a few
words to say
| 1t is a well known fact In IN snufaoturns, that
| the greater the number Of articles manu- factured
| by one establishment, the smaller will 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 Sc.
cure large sales and thus enable US to mauufao-
ture watches At minimum cost. WEBELTEVE
IN SMALL PROFITS AND A LARGE BUSI-
NESS. This policy we have successfully car
ried out, and the result is that to-day we manu-
facture twicess 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
cent. Cheaper than they do, quality for quail
ity.
We would further remark that in increasing
our productions We have constantly improved its
QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. We have
hal the refusal Of nearly all inyen tons Intended
to improve time-pieCes, and have adopted sll
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
80 the company, and our corps Of designers and
master mechanics cannot be equAed in this or
any other country. In addition to this we make
gold and silver cases, not only for our own move
meuI, but for those of other factories ours being
the only establishment that turns out watches |
complete in every respect.
As these watches are for sale by the trade gen
orally throughout the United States, and at a re-
tail profit made most honorable by oompsti ton |
the company invariably decline orders Of q retail |
RoBBICGs d APPLETON,
General Agents,
Asa 3EoadwsTs ~. ".