The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-03-02
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wALTHAM
WATCHES!
70 Buyers of Watches Everywhere.

The greater part Of the jewellers Of the United
states keep Wafham Watches, and cordially re-
! commend them to their customers, notwithstand
ing the fact that loss profit is made on these
watches than on any others generally sold by the
trade. The reason Of this il, that the reputn.
tion Of the WalthAm Watch renders IL an easy
sale, and the result is that, although the dealer
does not make as much money on each indiyi-
dual watch as ho may on the sale Of other watch.
es, he still the gamer through larger and live.
lisr sales. There are some, however, among the
trade, who do not give the Waltham Watch that
hearty support which Il deserves. This portion
portion Of the trade fancy there is more money
to he made by dealing in watches about which
the public are ignorant, and In which there IL
less competition, aud are content to make an
occasional sale Of such watches ct large profit.
IL lie this class VI dealers who, when asked about
walthsm Watches, use that kind Of nguAgs
which leads the customer finally to buy just such
a watch as 10 the most profitable for the dealer
to sell.
IOrtbe information Of persons about to buy
watch; aud who may DO unfavorably affected by
the representations Of those unfrendly to our
va shss, we call attention to the following sug-
gsstioas:
Since the manufacture Of watches was initia
ted at Wsltham, the company have and sold
about 400, 900 watches. In every town and
village Of the country some WeareT Of Wal
than Watch may be found, Let the party about
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this question:
HAS YOUR WATCH GIVEN YOU salts.
PACTIoN2
| 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 a,
well as the best. On this head We have few
words to say:
| 1t swcll known fact 10 manufacturing, thai
the greater the number Of articles manufactured
by one establishment, the smaller will be tn,
cost Of each individual article Keeping this il
view, our policy has always been to sell our pro
duets at the lowest possible price in order to SO
cure large sales, aud thus u1ble us 10 manufac
ture watches ut minimum cost. WE BELIEVE
IN SMALL PROFITS AND A LARGE BUSI
NESS. This policy We have successfully cat
red out and the result 10, that day we manu-
iacture twice as many watches ~ ell the othe
factories IN the United States put together
We can, therefore, afford to sell Cheaper thai
, they do, and actually do sell Twenty-Five pc
cent. Cheaper than they do, quality for quail
ity.
We would further remark that in noreasin
our productions wo have constantly improved II
q QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. We hav
. to improve tme-pieces, and have adopted a
D those, and those only, which have proved to
4 really valuable. We have retained in our eu
Ploymeut every hoad OF department we hay
} ever had, whose services were OF any importanc
= to the CON pany, and our corps Of designers an
a, master mechanics cannot be cqualed in this
=, any other country. In addition to this we mai
" gold aud silver cases, not only for our own mov
to ments but for those Of other factories ours beI
y the only establishment that turns out watch
r. complete in every respect.
e, As these watches are for sale by the trade gen
0, orally throughout the United States, aud ct n
u tail profit made most honorable by competition
u the company invariably decline orders Of a reta
~ character.
,ir ROBBINS g. APPLETON
Id General Agents,
er 1S2 Broadway, n. Y.