The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-05-24
W-ALTHANE
w ATCHES
70 Buyers Of Watches Everywhere.

The greater part Of the jewellers Of the Unite,
| States keep Walthum Watches, and cordially re-
commend them to theircustomers, notwithstand
ing the fact that less profit is made on these
watches than on any others generally sold by thu
trade. The reason Of this is, that the reputa
| tion Of the WaItham Watch renders it an easy
sale, and the result is that, although the dealer
does not make as much money on each indivi,
dual watch rs be may on the sale Of other watch
es, he is still the gainer through larger and live
Her sales. 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 an
occasional sale Of such watches at alaFge profit.
1t is this class Of dealers VIII when asked about
WsIthRm Watches use that kind of language
which leads the customer finally tobuy just such
watch as s the most profta lie for the dealer
to sell
orr the inform alton Of persons about to buy a
watch and who may be unfavorably affected by
the representations Of those unfriendly to oar
wa,cbes. we oan ~uoution to the following sug-
gestious:
S,noe the manufacture Of watches was inita.
ted OF Wathsm, the company have and cold
about 400, 900 watches. In every town and
village Of the country some wearer of 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 are not afraid to ask those wishing to buy
q 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
WaItham Watches are THE CHEAPEST as
well as the best On this head we have few
words to say
Itis we'll 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 our pro-
ducts al the lowest possible price in order to Sc
cure large sales, and thus en1bls us to msnufao-
ture watches at q minimum cost. WE BbLlEN
IN SMALL PROFITS AND A LARGE BUSI-
| NESS. This policy we have successfully car
ried out, sud the result is, that Today we manu-
/ tactura w ce as many watches a. oil the othef
| factories In the United States 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 Tor quail
ity.
| We would further remark that in increasing
our predictions we have constantly improved lt'
QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. We have
had the rogusal Of nearly all inventions intended
to improve ume-uieces. and have adopted al
those, and those only, which have proven 10 Dc
really valuable We have retained IN our en-
ploymeat every head of department we have
ever ha4, whose services were OF any Importance
TO the company. and our corps of designers and
master mechanics cannot be equaled in this OF
any other county. In addition to TINS We make
gold aud silver cases, not only Tor our own move
meuts, but for those of other factories, ours oe1ns
the on.y establishment that turns out watches
complete in every respect.
As these watches are for sale BY the trade gen
orally throughout the United States aud at re
tail profit made mos. honorable By competition
the Ompany inv sriably decline orders of retail
character.
aon8TNs 4 APPLHToN
General Agents,
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