The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-04-16
"ALTHAM
WAT CHES !
10 Buyers Of Watches Everywhere.

The greater part Of the jewellers Of the United
States keep WaItham Watches, and cordially re-
commend them to their customers, uotwithstAnd.
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 Waltham Watch renders it an easy
sale, and tho result is thst, although the dealer
dOes not make as much money on each indivi-
dual watch as he may on the sale of other watch
es, heis still the gamer through larger and live
lier sales. There are some, however, among the
trade who do not give the WalthAm Watch 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 are Ignorant, and in which there Is
less competition, and are content to mako an
occasional sale Of such watches at large profit.
1t is this class Of dealers who when asked about
Walthnm Watches, use that kind Of language
which leads the customer finally to buy Just such
watch Us lie the most profta lie for the dealer
to sell.
orthe information Of persons about to buy a
watch; and who may be unfav orably affected by
the representations of those unfrIendy TO our
wasohes we .~u -,'~"trVn 10 the following sug-
| gestions:
since the manufaoture Of watches was lnitia
ted at Waltham, she company have and sold
| about 400, 900 watches. In every town and
village Of the country some wesrer of Wal
than W. toh may be found. Let the party about
to buy ask this owner Of nm American Watch
this question:
HAS YOUR WATCH GIVEN YOU salts,
FACTION
We are not afraid 20 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 a the best. On this head we have few
words to say:
IT. we'll known fact 10 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 At the lowest possible price 10 order to Sc
cure large sales, and thus enable US to manufac-
tuFe watches ct q minimum cost. WE BELIEVE
IN SMALL PROFITS AND A LARGE BUSI-
NESS. This policy we have successfully cur
ried out and the result is, that to-day we manu-
tactuFe '"cc as many watches as ell the other
factories III 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 We have constantly improved its
QUALITY AND ITS VARIETY. We have
had the refusal Of nearly all inventions intended
to improve time pieces, and have adopted all
those, and those only, which have proved to be
really valuable. We have retained in our EN-.
Floyment every bead of department we have
ever h@u' whose services were OF any Importance
10 the CON pAuy, and our corps of designers and |
master mechanics cannot be equaled in this or |
any other country. In addition to this we make |
gold ana SILVER cases, not only for our own move
me0ts, but for hoseof other fact cries. 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 at re-
tail profit made most honorable by competition |
the company invariably decline orders of retail |
ROBBINS q APPLETON,
General Agents,
. 4s2 Broadway, ". Y.
febAdv2n.