The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-10
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.

To avoid imposition, purchasers of waltham Watches
will observe that every genuine watch, whether gold or
silver, bears our trademark on both case and movement.
Gold cases are stamped A. w. Co.. and guarantee GER
Am. Watch Co., Waltham, Mass, Sterling Silver"
and are accompanied by guarantee certincates, signed
r. E. Robbins, Treasurer. The name "Waltham
is plainly engraved upon all movements, irrespective OF
This caution is rendered necessary by reason of the
fact that our cases are fregnantly separated IRON our
makers, and rice rersd, thus affecting injuriously the per
Torrance of the watches and vitiating our guarantee,
which is intended to cover only our complete watches
wholly made by us. 1t is necessary, also, because 1t Is SO
nOtorious as to be a public scandal, that there is great
fraud in the metal quality of both gold and silver cases
as now gensT tHI{ Isn po Md a naSe si GynoH esses oneEed in n
the market are debased from 10 to 20 per cent. from the
chaser, and accounts for the low price at which such
cased watches have been sold.
We take this occasion to announce that we have re-
Gently entirely remodelled, the very popular grades9 iui5
plate movements, known by the m marks; Jw I'm 7
Bartlett" and - Broadway" giving to them not only a
VIee eGbody in them such Of the best results Of our e1pe-
rience and study for twenty years as can be nsef9I IN TINS
special recommendation to all who look for good per
alterations have been made with the view of pleasing
practical watch makers, as well as watch wearers.
public against CHEAP watches. The superiority OF
waltham goods, in all grades, is now SO generadiy &C
knowledged that our competitors, Swiss ana American,
seem to have no resource but to present the attraction OF
to sell them for what they can get. Times are hard, and
people generally not knowing q good watch from q bad
William Morris, the eminent English Lecturer on Artand
Labor Topics, in q resent lecture delivered DeIOT II
- Trades Guild" says;
"Iknow that the public in general are set upon having
things cheap, being so ignorant that they do not knoV
when they get them nasty, also so ignorant that they
neither know nor care whether they give a man his due
1 know that the manufacturers, so-csledr are so set on
carving out competition to its utmost, competition OF
cheapness, not of excellence, that they meet the bargain
hunters half way, and cheerfully furnish them with nasty
wares at the cheap rate they are asked for, by means OF
what can be called by no prettier name than fraud
We are much mistaken if this is what the public wants
or expects, of us, at least. Good watches cannot be made
when neither workman nor employer has pride in his
wanting, and both are essential to good matchmaking.
Low price, especially in watches, MEANS Low QUALITY,
WITH Low PERFORMANCE AND HIGH REPAIRS,
Our mission was. and our business IL, to make GOOD
watches, whatever the cost holding firmly TO this Single
purpose, We have seen Improvement in quality and re-
duction in cost, by means of discoveries and improve
ments in machinery and by natural causes, go steadily on
together. until We can truly say, WalthAm Watches' IN
their respective grades, are the best watches made, and
as TO the lower grades. they are within reach OF every
body who earns wages. Our prices are as low as they
ought TO be, and as low as they will be. Watches cannot
be made for nothing, even by machinery. We say to the
public, buy q good watch while you are about 1t, ana pay
3 proper price for it. The more you pay an honest dealer
the better satisfied you will be in the end don't be de-
ceived by cheapness-qualityd escends faster than price.
For American Watch Co., of WalthAm, Mass.
ROBBINS & APPLETON, General Agents,
ap19 New York U. :. A.
~ All the above Line of Waltham Watches for Sale at
the Store of NJ. MCINERNY, Sole Agent for this Kingdom.
Also, Agent for the GORHAM STERLING SILVER
WARE.
The Trade Supplied at LOWEST PRICES. apas sm