The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-04-05
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70 Buyers of Watches Everywhere

The greater part u the jewellers Of the United
States keep Waltham Watches, and cordially re-
commend them u tlrirou-tomyr., uptwith.tapd.
| ing the fast tuat le.- profit is made on these
watchr. than on any others generally soli by the
| tFoI2. Tho reason Of this is, that the roputn-
| ton Of the Wa.,ham Watch renders Il An easy
sale, AMI the result IL thgt, although the lea or
does not make as much money On eaeh iud.y!.
dual watch As he may on the sne of other watch
es, he is still the gamer through larger and live
lrcr salos. IaoTe are some however, among tho
trade, VIII, DO not give the Walthsm Watch that
hearty support which IT deserves. This portion
portion Of tho trade fancy there is moro money
t. he made by isning 10 watches about which
the public are ignorant, and in which there Is
lees competition, and are oontoGt to make M
occasional sale Of such Vatches at a large profit
1t is this class Of dealers who, whom nsked sbout
WaItham Watches, use that kind Of language
which ionis the customer finally to buy lust such
a watch Is is the most prodta le for the dealer
70 sell.
ortho information Of persons about to buy
watch; and who may bo unfsvorohly affected by
tho .~e."'ntIons Of those uufrenily to our
wa'ches, we call attention to the following .ug-
gcsuons:
since tho manufacture Of watches was inita
tod at WsItham, the company have and cold
about 100000 watches. In every town and |
village Of the country some woaror Of Wal. |
than Watch may be found. Let the party about
to buy nsk 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-
'ug satisfied as TO the quality Of the watch the
buyer has now only TO satisfy himself taa. the
"n,tbam Watches are THE CHEAPEST as
we'll rs tho best On this head we have a few
words to say
It's well anown fact in manufacturing, that
he greater the number Of articles manufactured
by one establishment, the smaller will be the {
'oSt ct each individual article. Keeping this in
low, uar policy has always been TO sell our pro-
i''is at the lowest possible price in order to Sc
Ure large sales, and thus enable US to manufao- Il
ute watches at minimum cost. WEBELIEVE j
n SMALL PROFITS AND A LARGE BUSI- 7
'ES>- his policy We have successfully car t
led out and the result is, that to-day we manu-
lcture twice as many watches as al! the other
Ac'orles n the United STATES put together
We can therefore, afford to sell Cheaper than
hey do and actually do sell Twenty-Five per
ent' Cheaper than they do, quality for DUAL.
~.
we "oni u'tu'r remark that in increasing
II productions ". have constantly improved It's
UALlTY AND ITS VARIETY. We have
ID the refusal Of nearly all iuyeD tions intended
improve time ieccs, and have adopted all
oSe' and i-ose only, which have proved to be
ally valuable. We have retained in our en-. o.
'ymeai very bead Of department we have at
eF hHl' whose services we're Of any Importance pc
inc 60" gany and our corps Of designers and ~ ~
''ter mechanics cannot lie equaled in this or So
o'1eT r.-LiFy Ia addition to this We mako pa
ID ana silver cases, not only for cur own move al
nt' BUT fr those Of other factories, ours being n
only establishment that turns out watches
nPlet" in very respect.
As tHese watches are tor sale by the trade gen
!iy throughout the United States, and at a re-
prof: made most honorable by competition
company invariably decline orders Of a retail.
racter.
ROBBINS g. APPLETON, T
General Agents, Ia
1s2 Broadway, u. Y. 0D'
eb4dS2n.