The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-04-19
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.

To avoid imposition, purchasers of walthana Watches
will observe that every genuine watch, whether gold OF
silver, bears our Trademark on both case and movement.
Gold cases are stamped "a. w. Co" and guarantee Ger;
Gam. Watch Co., Waltham. Mass, Sterling Silver"
signed r. e. Robbins, Treasurer. The name " waltham'
is plainly engraved upon all movements, irrespective OF
either distinguishing marks; Aha
fact that our cases are frequently separated from our
makers, and rice Versa, thus affecting inJur1ously the per
which is intended to cover only our complete watches
wholly made by us. 1t is necessary; also, because it is SO
fraud in the metal quality of both gold and silver cases
auent ASSAYS that many gold and silver cases offered in
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.
w take this occasion to announce that we have re-
Gently entirely remodelled the very popular grades OF Iui l
plate p snDj % = TFney < kR Gown Sw shd maT Watch co., @H!!f i: 5.
Bartlett, - and " Broadway" giving to them not only a
We embody in them such of the best results of our e1pe
T roa% ana Is study f TOR 5~e w yea years fb as cam ne Ue m osdtIi w a. tHis
special recommendation to all who look for good per
s Itmadeg aif have soh been made with the view of pleasing
practical watch makers, as well as watch wearers.
public against CHEAP watches. The superiority of
knowiedged that our competitors, Swiss and 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 a good watch from a bad
william Morris, the eminent English Lecturer on Artand
Labor Topics, in a recent lecture delivered before the
- Trades Guild, =" says:
"Iknow that the public in general are set upon having
things cheap, being so ignorant that they do not know
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, 'socaled,' are so set on
carrying 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
occupation interest and pleasure in the work are bOtt
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 is, 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 OF
together, until We can truly say, Waltham Watches, il
their respective grades, are the best watches made, anC
as TO the lower grades, they are within reach of every
body who earns wages. Our prices are as low as the.
ought TO be, and as low as they will be. Watches canno
be made for nothing. even by machinery. We say TO tn
public, buy q good watch while you are about it, and pa
3 proper price for il. The more you pay an honest deale
the better satisfied you will be in the end don't be de
ceived by cheapness-quality descends faster than price
Por American Watch Co., of Waltham, Mass.
ROBBINS & APPLETON, General Agents
sp19 New York. L. 5. A.