New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-12-16
WATCHES Guido CHRoNoMETERS.
IN POLAR EXPEDITION A wALTHAM VARIES
THIRTY-FoUR SECONDS YEAR-ANoTHER
CoRREcTs GREENWICH OBSERVATORY.

CoRRECTs GREENWICH OBSERVATORY.
Each Of the nine members of the wellman Polar
Expedition of 1s9S-'99 carried Waltham watch
Upon his return Lieutenant Wellman wrote; MY
watch was carried while on our sledge journey
toward the North Pole in pocket Of my under
Jacket often found 1t so Undecided in ice. formed
from the exhalations Of my body, that IL was
literally frozen in my pocket The watch itself
continued to go right along. After year OF such
exposure in temperatures varying from that OF
the body TO 49 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. our
steamer arrived. and on comparison with the ships
chronorneter after correction for rating, we found
it had lost thirty-four seconds In the twelve
month The other watches, all Walthams, like
mine gave similar results"
BY the extraordinary achievements of the Ameri-
can Waltham Watch Company during the past
forty-six years, close running timepieees have
been brought within the means of every one
who values time. and they have become so conven-
tonal that we seldom pause to consider how won
derfuI the modern watch is, and how much we
relv upon it Composed of upward of one hundred
no1e-oe1 Viewed even in the light of other recent
mechanical achievements. is a marvellous machine
To produce the expected results each OF the parts
rnittinF and lasting accuracy Unlike almost every
other machine, watch cannot rest 1t must 90 us
balance wheel of a Waltham watch vibrates 1900
times hour, or $4,000 times day the rim trav-
cling more than seventeen miles, HoW snght "a
deviation from the normal action Of this wheel will
render a watch unSerViCeahle is shown by the fact
that should the balance Wheel make put ten Vlbra-
tons less per hour the watch Will lose three-quar
little timekeeping machines which are issued every
working day from the factory at Waltkam that
in 1897 a gentleman observed that according to the
Saltham watch which he carried the time ball on
the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, which is
supposed to drop accurately at o'clock m, fell
a few seconds too His confidence in the
there had been some error at the Observatory. He
wrote to the Astronomer Royal, receiving in reply
the following note from Mr. H. p Hollis. of the
Observatory: I'm answer TO your letter of yester-
day the Astronomer Royal requests to inform
onds before l o'clock
stances as the foregoing has enhanced the uni
versal popularity of Waltham watches their repu-
tation for accuracy and durability been estab-
lshed by, the nine million Waltham watches that
have LEFT the factory during the past half century
ferent circumstances all over the world. These
watches tell their own story They tell almost
from pole to pole why the claim is made that an
American watch should. be preferred to a Swiss
watch and that Of all American watches the Wall
Waltham watches are made in six sizes. from
rs Size expressly adapted 10 the use OF railroad
men. down to the Jewel Series the smallest
lever escapement watch movement made on this
continent. The American Waltham Watch Company
while of the largest IS as well one OF the most
progressive manufacturing concerns in the world Ii
has been the first adopt every sound substantial
invention 10 promote the quality of products II
was the first watch manufacturing concern In
America 10 issue watch movements with seventeen
jewels; the first to employ patent centre piuions
and safety barrels in watches: the first employ a
may be set from the crown without the use OF a
side lever, the only one that has made non-mag-
els One Of the artistic products of this com
pany IS the '12 Size watch fot gentlemen. which
mend itself &c Those who prefer small, very Thin
pocket timepieee is also as strong and accurate as
Watham watches Of larger size.
TIE American Waltham Watch Company has
published brochure describing and illustrating
ton to the company at Waitham, Mass.