The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-06-14
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.
,,Srstas sccomnsnx hem silver cases Sc = stsmned
"Am. Watch Co, Waltham, Mass, Sterling Silver"
r. l. E E Ro6bins' Trea sS The name "walthsm
This caution is rendered necessary by reason of the
movement and put upon worthless movements of other
Torrance of the watches and vitiating our guarantee,
which is intended to cover only our complete watches
notorious oriiS as to- to be a pubic scaadai, that there is great
fraud in the metal quality of both gold and silver cases
quent assays that many gold and silver cases offered in
quality they assume to be. This is a fraud upon the pur-
chaser. and accounts for-the low price at which such
We take this occasion to announce that we have re;
Gently entirely remodeIled me very popuiar 9rau1 B1 . u II
HHAppieton, Tracy { Co." "waIthsm watch Co" Fps.
W N1enI Tb mnPrG ~ tbe aPp sn q ! Of The UT hest res1iIts of 81 our e xpe.
" e emo ~ st IN rs IN 9Tent ~ en . 8 3 can he 1sefni in This
popular form of watch. We give these new model watches
formance and solid excellence at moderate cost. The
alterations have been made sn With the view w OF pleasing
We avail ourselves, too, OF this occasion to warn the
Waltham goods, in all grades, is now so generally &C
knowledged that our competitors, Swiss and Amerlean;
low price. Their goods being inferior TO ours, they have
people generally not knowing a good watch from a bad
one. very often slow a small price to decide them;
William Morris, the eminent English Lecturer on Art and
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;
I know that the manufacturer, 'so-called,' 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 both
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
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, and pay
a 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-quality descends faster than price.
For American Watch Co., of Waltham, Mass.
ROBBINS & APPLETON, General Agents,
apI9 New York, L. s. a.
81 All the above Line of Waltham Watches for Sale at
the Store of NJ. Sole Agent for this Kingdom.
Also, Agent for the GoRHAM STERLING SILVER
WARE.
The Trade Supplied at LOWEST PRICES. ap26 9m