The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-03-13
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w ALTHAM
WATCHES!
TO payers of Watches Everywhere.

The greater part Of the jewellers Of the United
States keep WalthAm Watches, and cordially re-
commend them to their customers, notwithstAnd
ing 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 reputA-
tlon Of the WAlth&m Watch renders il an sasy
sale, and the roSult Is that, although the dealer
does not make 40 much money on each indiVi-
dual watch AS he 10 y on the sale Of other watch
es he ia still the gamer through larger and live
Iier sales There are some, however, among the
trade, who do not give the WalthAm W atch that
hearty support which IL deserves. This portion
portion Of the trade fancy there is more money
to be made by dealing in watches about which
the public ere ignorant, and in which there -
less competition, and are content to make AZ
occasional sale Of such watches 81 large profit.
It 10 this claSI Of deGiers who, when asked about
waltham Watches, use that kind Of language
which loAIs the customer finally buy just such
a watch a. 10 tho most proatag lie for the dealer
to sell.
orthe information Of persons aboutto buy q
watch; and who may be unfavOrably affected by
the representations Of those unfrendly to our
We chos, we call attention to the following sug-
gestions;
Since the manufacture Of watches was initiA
ted atWSltham, the company have aud sold
about 400, 900 watches. In every town and
village Of the country some wsarer 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
buyer has now only to satisfy himself that the
Walthsm Watches are THE CHEAPEST az
well as tho best. On this head we have few
words to say;
1t lie we'll known fact In manufacturing, that
| the greater tho number Of articles Manufactured
| by one establishment the smaller will be tho
cost Of each individual article Keeping this in
view, our policy has always been to sell our pro-
ducts at the lowest possible price in order to so
cure large sales, and thus enable US to mRnufao-
/ a.
| IN SMALL PROFITS AND A LARGE BUsI.
! NESS. This policy We have successfully car
ried out, aud tbs result is, that to-day we manu-
! iacture twice as many watches as all the other
| 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 for quail
ity.
We would further remark that in increasing
our productions W. have constantly improved III
QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY We hav,
had the refusal of nearly all nven tions intended
to improve time-pleoes, and have adopted al
those, aud those only, which have proved to bt
really valuable. We have retained in our oun
ployment 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 equaied in this o.
any other country. In addition TO this we max
gold aud silver cases, lot only for our own move
monts, but for those Of other factories, ours bein
the only establishment that trims out watche
a complete in every respect.
}. As these witches are for sale by the trade gen
e orally throughout the United States, and at u re
d tail profit made most honorable by compet tor
p the company invariably decline orders Of reta
II character.
s. ROBBINS d APPLETON
General Agents,
d 192 Broadway, ~. X.