The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-25
W-ALTHAM
WAT CHE 5 !
To Buyers Of Watches Everywhere.

The greater part Of the jewellers Of the United
States keep Waltham Watches and cordially re-
commend them to their customers, uotwithstand.
ing tho fact that less profit is made on these
watches than On any othorS generally sold by the
| trade. The reason Of this Is, that the reputA.
ton Of the Waltham Watch renders it an easy
sale, and the result Is that, although the dealer
does not make as much money on each indiv-
dual watch as he may on the sale of other watch
es, he is stll the gamer through larger and live
lier sales. There arc come, however, among the
trade, who do not give the Waltham Watch that
hearty support which it deserves. This portion
portion Of the trade fancy thore is more money
to be made by dealing in watches about which
the public are ignorant, and In which there 10
less competition, end are content to make an
occasional sale Of such Natches OF large profit
1t Is this class of dealers who, when askedabout
WaItham Watches, use that kind of language
which leads the customer finally to buy just such
watch as is the most profitable for the dealer
TO sell.
the information of persons about to buy a
watch; and who may be uniavorably affected by
the representations of those unfrieudly to our
ws,CheS, we call attention to the following sug-
geStions:
Since the manufacture Of watches WAS inita.
ted at Walthsm, the company have and sold
about 400, 900 watches. In every town and
village Of the country some weqrer of n 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
a watch to guide themselves by the owner. Be-
ing satisfied as to the quality Of the watch, the
ouyer hss now only to satisfy himself that the
WalthAm Watches are THE CHEAPEST M
well as the best. On this head we have sov
words to say:
| It's well known fact In m,nur,ot,,rirO .L.,
the greater the number of articles manu- iactured
by one establishment, the smaller will bs tbs
cost OK each individual article, Keeping thi, In
yieW' our policy has always been to sell our rro-
ducts at the lowest possible price in order to 40.
cure large sales, aad thus en1blc IN u,nrr.,
.u'o H"''no' at minimum cost. BELIEVE
IN SMALL PROFITS AND LARGE BusI-
NESS' Tbs policy We have successfully oar-
'''u ou'' and the result is, that to-day we manu-.
t"''uTe twice as many watches as ali the other
factories IN the United States put topetbay
We can, therefore, afford to sell Chasnsy than
they DO and actually do sell Twenty-Ave mar
=
! ity. 1 Ava quar-
w Nou'a luther remark that in Increasing
our production 10 have constantly improvsd ~
QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. Wa have
uSu zoe retasa Of nearly all invon tions intended
~ improve tme-Pieces, and have adopted oil
'nose' and th)'e only, which have proved to be
'eA-f valuable. We have retained in our en-.
P'O. lect every head Of a department we have
ever mad, whose services were Of any Importance
10 Inc company, and our corps Of designers and
""s"f mechanics cannot be equaled in this or
Ill! theT country. In addition to this we make
SoI1 and silver eases, not only FOR our own move
mems nut Tor those Of other factories, ours being
Tue only establishment that turns out watches
complete in every respect.
A' these watches are for sale by the trade gen.
orally throughout the United States, and al re-
Tai profit made most honorable by compet tior
the company invariably decline orders Of retail
character.
ROBBINS q APFxETST,
General Agents,
1s0 Broadway ~. ".