The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-02-04
WALTHAM
WAT CHE 5 !
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, notwithstaud
| 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 reputS-
tion Of the WalthAm Watch renders it an easy
sale, and the result is that, although the dealer
does not make as much money on each ndiyi-
dual watch as he may on the sale Of other watch
e., he is still the gamer through larger and live
| ller sales. There are some, however, among tho
trade, who do not give the WalthIm Watch that
hearty support which IL deserves. This portion
portion Of tho trade fancy there is more money
to be made by dealing in watches about which
tho public are ignorant, and in which there IA
less competition, and are content to make an
occasional sale Of such watches at a large profit
1t Is this class Of dealers who, when asked about
Walthsm Watches, use that kind Of language
which Leafs the customer finally tobuy just such
q watch as ia the most prodta5 DO for the dealer
10 sell.
Tor the information Of persons abo ut to buy n
watch; and who may be unfayorably affected by
the representations Of those unfrendly to our
wa ches, we call attention to the following sug
gestions:
Since the manufacture Of watches was inita
ted at Watham, the company have aud so ID
about 400, 900 watches. In every town and
village Of the country some wearor Of Wal
than Watch may bs found. Let the party about
to buy ask 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
ing satisfied as to the quality Of the watch, the
buyer has now only to satisfy himself that the
Waltham Watches are THE CHEAPEST aI
! well as the best On this head we have few
J words to say:
G Iii sswcIl known fact In manufacturing that
the greater the number Of articles manufactured
by one establishment, the smaller will bs the
r cost Of each individual article Keeping this in
i 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 10 mapufac-
ture watches at minimum cost. We BELIEVE
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 twice as many watches as oil the other
factories in the United sta.os 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
had the refusal Of nearly all inyen tons intended
? TO improve tme-pieces, and have adopted all
t those, and those only, which have proved to be
really valuable We have retained in our en-
Ployment every head of a department we have
ever had, Whose services were OF any Importance
to tho company, and our corps Of designers and
master mechanics cannot be cqualed in this or
any other country. In addition to this we make
gold and silver cases, not only for our own move
ments, hut 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 gem
orally throughout the United States, and at re-
tail profit made most honorable by competition,
the company invariably decline orders Of retail
character.
RoBBTNs & APPLETON,
General Agents,