The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-05-27
A M e II &c A N
WALTHAM
WATCHES.
To Buyers of Watches Ev.
eryWhere.

The greater part Of the jewellers Of the
United States keep Waltham Watches, and
cordially recommend them to their Gus
toners, Notwithstanding 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 reputation
of the Waltham Watch renders 1t an 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 livelier 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
about which the public are ignorant, and
in which there is 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 Waltham Watches. use that kind of
language which lea DIS the customer final
ly to buy just such'a watch, rs 10 the NEST
profitable for the dealer to sell.
For the information of persons about to
buy watch. ana who may be unfavora.
bly, affected by the representations of
those unfriendly to our watches, we call
attention to the following suggestions:
Since the manufacture of watches was
initiated at Waltham, the Company have
made and sold about 400, 900 watches. In
every town and village of the country
some wearer Of q Waltham Watch may be
found. Let the party about to buy ask
this owner of an American Watch this
question:
HAS YOUR WATCH GIVEN YOU
SATIsFACTION:
We are not afraid to advise those wish
ing to buy watch guide themselves by
0at fal ts,f h.
ity Of the watch, the buyer has now only
to satisfy himself that tho Waltham
Watches are THE CHEAPEST as well as
the best. On this head we have few
words TO say:
1t is well known fact in manufacture
ing, that the greater the number of ar.
the smaller viii IS sn ~ ee s si
vidual article. Keeping this in view, our
policy has always been to sell our pro-
ducts at the lowest possible price in order
to secure large sales, ard thus enable us
to manufacture watches at minimum
cost. WE BELIEVE IN SMALL PROF
ITS AND A LARGE BUSINESS. This
policy we have successfully carried out,
and the result Is, that to-day we manufac.
ture twice a. many watches as all the 9TH
er factories in the United States put to-
gether. We can, therefore, afford to sell
Cheaper than they do, and actually do sell
1Wenty-rlve per c0ut. Cheaper tnan they
do, quality for quality.
We would further remark that in in
creasing our product we have constantly
improved its QUALITY AND ITS VA
RIETY. We have had the refusal of
nearly all inventions intended to improve
time-pieces. and have adopted all those,
and those My, which have proved to be
really valuable. We have retained in our
employment every head of a department
we have ever had, whose services were of
any Importance to the Company, and our
present corps OF designers and master
mechanics cannot be equaled 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 estab-
lishment that turns out watches comple.e
in every respect.
AS these watches are for sale by the
trade generally throughout the United
States, and at aretail profit made most
reasonable by competition, the Company
invariably decline orders Of a retail char
acter.
A full line OF these celebrated Watches
always for saleat most reasonable prices
by TRASK IL BRO,
ROBBINS Il APPLETON, Gen1 Agents,
ls2 Broadway, n, Y.