New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-31
UATCHCASES WIN LITTLE GOLD
THE FILLING PROCESS HAS All. DuT BAHIsHED
THE SILVER TIMEPlECE.

THE FILLING PROFESS HAS ALL BCT BA"lsHED
THE SILVER TiMEPIECE
This il an effete age and generation" remarked
the free silyerite Not content WIKI deDrvins the
country ~ cheap money. the gold bugs OF wal!
Street have worked upon the passion Tor display
that posse ses the multitude that even silver
watch isn't good enough for the workingman' ana
he must carry a gold ,imepiece What has become
Of the silver watches our grandfathsrs USED 70
wear? NOBODY or Amos; n)b3dy, carries one now
adays'
His listener observed that grandfatheT's turnip
was probably worn ont by this time. "Bit ne
continued IF you wan. know why even peo-
pie in very modest circumstances don't carry
wa,chcz ike it, III tell you. It's because they can
buy gold watches just about as cheap as your
grandfather could silver ones AMI they naturally
prefer the more precious metal Not soHd' OK
course. but the filled case which, for the time ior
which 1t is guaranteed. IS just good as the
sold"
The filling" Of Weaknesses WIKI b1ser meta! Is
an American invention and the manufacture OF I'll ed
cases Is confined 20 this country, where, however
1t has attained vast proportions. James Boss hrSt
conceived the idea OF substitute for gold, ana MS
invention was patented in ISL Is possibilities
were not fully realized by manufacturers for about
twenty years. but since 1876 the use OF the new
method has been steadily increasing. until to-day
nllel cases are carried by tn great majority OF
owners Of watches.
The use of filing Is what has killed silver in the
manufacture Of watchclscs." said prominent ox-
pert The average lie OF silver case is four or
five years \ goli-ilicd case. II carat. Is guaF4n-
teed for twenty years. a lC-cardt for fifteen and
rollei-pla:r for I'VE. Here = one OF me eaIlest
MAKE which has been worn Tor twenty years"
showing a case which might SIN have passed ior
cod. Il got that OF clergyman, VINO Stli IL Tao
neen presented % him by his congregation, ana
that he'd been lying about Il FOR score OF years.
squeamish in those days. and Il had the ls-caFat
mark the inside. <.,o.
.'Wher the panic struck the country the factories
Of this country were turning out 6.nJ watches
artiiicl! demand created by me whtch cuo ana
other schemes which gained such vogue -FOUR or I'VE
years ago. The courts nav" since ruied tAeSe
schemes illegal and the watch trade IS coming
back to a legitimate bass. ,-
almost every part o.! an American watch Is now
made By machinery. Even the designs on the
cheaper cases are stamped in
but machine-madc cases equal 70 hand-
made. aside from IN" stamped 'onGrlVlas .
Better. The different parts are hardeaet by tne
pressure and more uniform IN qu1hty. or
si'As Of the Milling by great mechanical pressure;
You'd be SURPRISED how littc gold VIII spread
over that filing. and last. too. We never make
an lS-carat case except 70 orde., because H-carat
case wears best
''Th. is only by the way; but look a, ;hlt bow.
You wouldn't believe that a piece OF WORK dpDaF-
entity so simple u construction had twenty-five or
thirty patents on IT, would YOU Eat II mas. Ih1ts
to prevent a thief from wrenchpG your chain on
your watch. when he is unable to ger az the time
piece itself" ~
process reduced the price from ,hat OF fine caseT'
Well il wouldn't b. any cNaggerati0n 10 say
that the reduction has been nearly one-half. This
Is due the machine process OF course. as well as
to the filing"
All the grea, watch-clse factories are in and
around New-Y0rk and Philadelphia.