The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-03-01
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WALTHAM
WAT CHES!
TO Buyers Of Watches Everywhere.

The greater part Of the jewellers Of the United
| States keep Waltham Watches, and cordially re.
commend them 20 their customers, notWithstAnd
! ing the fact that less profit IL made on these
watches than on any others generally sold BY the
trade. The reason OF this is, that the reputA-
| tion Of the WAltham Watch renders II an easy
sale, and the result Is that, although the dealer
does not make as much money on each indiyi-
dual watch As BIO may on the sale Of other watch
90. he 10 still the gamer through larger aud live
| Her sNle, There are some, however, among the
! trade who do not give the WAlthAm Watch that
hearty support WhohH deserves. This portion
portion Of the trade fancy there is more money
To be made by dealing in watches about which
the public arc ignorant, and In which there Is
less competition, and are content TO make an
occasional sale Of such watches ~ large profit
1t is this class Of dealers who, when asked about
wslthSm Watches, use that Kind Of language
which leads the customer finally tobuy just such
a watch isis the most profitable for the dealer
to sell.
or the information Of persons about to buy a
watch; aud who may be unfsvorably affected by
the representations Of those unfriendly to our
wa oheS, we call attention TO the following sug-
gestions:
Since the manufacture Of watches was initiA.
ted At WAtham, the company have and sold
about 400, 900 watches. Ia every town and
than Watch may be found. Let tho 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
ouyer has now only to satisfy himself that the
Waltham Watches are THE CHEAPEST Al
we'll as the best On this head We have a few
words to say
Itis awell known fact in manufacturing, thai
the greater she number Of articles manu- fsctursd
by ono establishment, the smaller will be the
cost u 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 80
cure large sales, aud thus enable us to manufao
ture watches at q minimum cost. 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-
faoture twice as many watches as oil the oths
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 increasing
our productions We have constantly improved It
QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. We hay
had the refusal of nearly all inventor intende
; to improve time-pieces, and have adopted a
those, aud those only, which have proved to b
really valuable. We have retained in our em
Ployment every head of department we hsy
ever had, whose services were Of any importanc
to tho company, and our corps Of designers an
master mechanics cannot be equAled IN this o
any other country. In addition to this We max
gold aud silver cases, not only for our own move
ments but for those Of other factories, ours bein
the only establishment that turns out watcht
complete in every respect.
As these watches are for sale by the trade ger
orally throughout the United States, and at a re
tail profit made most honorable by competition
the company invariably decline orders of retail
character.
f ROBBINS d APPLETON
General Agents,
192 Broadway, u. Y.
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