The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-03-10

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wALTHAM
WAT CHES !
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 oustomers, uotwithstand
ing 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 reputA.
tion of the WAltham Watch renders it az easy
sale, and the result is that, although the dealer
does not make Is much mouey on each indiyi-
dual watch rs he may on the sale of other watch.
ss he is still the gamer through larger and live
ler sAl0I There are some, however, among the
trade who do not give the WAlthAm Watch that
hearty support which It deserves. This portion
portion Of the trade fancy there is more money
te be made by dealing in watches about which
the public are ignorant, and In which there is
less competition, and are content to make az
osOAsionSlts Of such watches a. large profit.
1t Ia this olass Of dealers who, when asked about
waltham. Watches, use that kind Of language
which leads the customer hnsIly tobuy just such
a watch IS lie the most profitable for the dealer
to sell.
| orthe Information Of persons aboutto buy a
watch; and who may be uniayorably Affected by
the representations Of those unfriendIy to our
wa,ohes, we call attention to the following sug.
gsStions:
Since the manufacture Of watches was militia
ted at Waltham, the company have and sold
about 400 900 watches. In every town and
village Of the country some weareT 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 arc 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
Watham Watches are THE CHEAPEST as
well as the beat. On this head we have few
words to say
ItisAwell 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
view, our policy has always been to cell our pro-
ducts at the lowest possible price in order to SO
cure large sales, and thus enable US to manufRo,
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-,
faoture twice as many watches as ell the Other
factories in the United statos 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.
2 We would further remark that in iuoreasin
r. our productions w have constantly improved it
! QUALITY AND ITs VARIETY. We hav
had the refusal Of nearly all iuvon tions intende
to improve time-poces, and have adopted a
those, and those only, which have proved to b
. really valuable. We have retained in our en
Floyment every head Of department we hsv
, ever had, whose services were Of any importanc
to tho company, and our corps Of designers an
} master mechanics cannot be equaled in this 0
any other country. In addition to this we max
gold aud silver cases. n OF only for our own move
nents, but for those Of other factories, ours bein
tho only establishment that turns out watche
complete in every respect.
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 Il APPLETON
General Agents,
1s2 Broadway, ~. Y.