The Portland daily press., 1869-04-08
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, Notwithstanding
| the fact that less profit is made these watches
than any others generally sold by the trade he
reason of this that the reputation of the Walham
Watch renders it easy sale and the result is that
| although the dealer does not make as much money
| on each individual watch as he may on the sale Of
other watches, he is still the gamer through larger
and liveer 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 fancy there is more money to be made by
dealing in watches about which the public are ig-
norant and in which there is less competition, and
are content to make occasional sale o. such
watches at large profit. 1t is this class of dealers
who, when asked about the Waltham Watches, use
that kind of language which leads the customer f.
nally to buy just such watch is the most profit
able for the dealer to sell.
For the information OF persons about to buy
watch, and who may be unfavorably affected by the
representations of those unirendly to watches,
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 a waltham Watch may
be found Let the party about to buy ask this own
er OF an American Watch this question:
HAS YOUR WATCH GIVEN YOU SATISFAC-
TON? We are not afraid to advise those wishing
to buy watch to guide themselves by the an
swer Being satisfied as to the quality of the WATCH
the buyer has 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:
tits a 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 view our policy
has always been to sell products at the lowest
possible price in order to large Sales and thus
enable US to manufacture watches at minim um
cost. We believe i'm small profits and a
large business This policy we have successfully
carried out and the result is that to-day we manu-
faeture twice many watches as all the other fac
tories In the United States put together. We can
therefore, afford 40 sell cheaper than they
do, and actually do sell Twenty-Five per
cent. cheaper than they do,s qualify for
qaulity.
We would further remark that in increasing our
production we have constantly improved its Quail
ity and its Variety. We have had the refusal of
nearly all inventions 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 employment every head of a depart
ment We have ever had, whose services were of any
Importance to the Company, and our present corps
of designers and master mechanics cannot be equal
ed 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 that turns out
watches complete in every respect.
AS these Watches are for sale by the trade gener-
ally throughout the United States, and at retail
profit, made most reasonable by competition, the
company invariably decline orders OF retail char
acter.
ROBBINS d APPLETON,
General Agents,
sNmar23eod&wlm 1S2, Broadway, N. ":