The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-12
w ALTHAM
WATCHES
To Buyers Of Watches Everywhere.

The greater part Of the jewellers of the United
| States keep Watham Watches, and cordially re-
commend them TO their notwithstand-
| ing the fact that less profit is made on those
watches than on any others generally sold by the
trade. The reason Of this is, that the reputA.
| ton Of the Wstham Watch renders it an easy
sale, and the result is that, although the dealer
does not make as much money on each indy-
dual watch NJ he may on the sale of other watch
es, he is still the gamer through larger and live
| lier saep. There are some, however, among the
/ trade, who do not give the Waltham Watch that
| hearty support which it deserves. This portion
! portion of tho trade fancy there is more money
/ % he made by dealing in watches about which
the pablo are ignorant, and in which there Is
! less competition, and are content to make an
occasional sale Of such watches at large profit,
1t is this class Of dealers who, when asked about
Waltham Watches, use that kind of language
which l5ais the customer finally buy Just such
a watch il the most profitable for the dealer
to sell.
! or the information Of persons about to buy Il
watch; and who may be untnvorahlv Affected oy
/ ths ropreseptotinn. - ,nose unfriendly to our
~H.cnes, we oaI attention to tho following sug-
gestions
Since the manufacture Of watches was inita.
ted at Waltham, the company have and sold
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 questions:
| HAS YOUR WATCH GIVEN YOU Salts.
! FACTION
/ We are not afraid to ask those wishing to buy
= 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 Is the best. On this head we have a few
| words to say:
| It's a we'll known fact In manufacturing, that
| the greater the number Of articles manufactured
! by one establishment, the smaller win be the
cost Of each individual article. Keeping this in
view, our policy has slways been to sell our pro-
ducts at the lowest possible price in order to Sc
cure large sales, and thus en- able US to manufse-
ture watches at = minimum cost WE BBLIEVE
IN SMALL PROFITS AND A LARGE BUsI-
! NESS. This policy we have successfully car
ried out, aad the result is, that to-day we manu-
tacture tw CO many watches as oil the other
factories 10 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 for quail
| ity.
! We woui further remark that in increasing
| our productions We have constantly improved its
! QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. We have
had the refusal of nearly all inven tiOns intended
to improve time pieces, and have adopted all
those, ana those only, which have proved TO be
really valuable We have retained in our EN-.
Floyment every head of a department we have
ever had, whose services were Of any Importance
| to the company, and our corps of designers and
master mechanics cannot be equaled in this or
any other country. In addition to this we make
gold aad silver cases, not only for our own move
ments, bu; for tboseof other factories ours being
the only 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 ct re-
tail profit made most honorable BY competition
the company invariably decline orders of g retail
character.
ROBBINS Il APPLEXo1E,
General Agents,
asa broadway, =. =.