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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1290, 26 June 1884, Page 4

Business Notice. gNGLISH WATCHES ENGLISH WATCHES! I SPECIAL AND IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. STEWART DAWSON AND CO.’S LIVERPOOL WORLD-RENOWNED ENGLISH LEVER WATCHES. STEWART DAWSON AND CO., of Liverpool, have much pleasure in announcing to their many Customers and the public in general that they have opened a Branch Establishment in Auckland, at 195, Queen street, for the sale of their unrivalled English Lever Watches, which will enable all to secure a watch of the highest quality at less than half the prices charged throughout New Zealand. 1 The extraordinary merits of Stewart Dawson and Co.’s Liverpool English Levers are too well known throughout the whole of No*v -Zealand,, as well as from East to West of the Old Country, that comment here is unnecessary. Suffice it to say that their perfection in excellence in value has given S. D. and Co. a patronage never equal ed in the history of watch-making. ; ORDER EARLY, ORDER EARLY. Please note.—lhc following prices include duty paid by us. Every watch, quality considered, cannot be bought retail under Double the Prices. A £7 10s GENT’S ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING LEVER For £3 15 s - Tire most perfect English Hunting Levers in the world. Every watch manufactured eu- ' lively in our own workshops, These watches arc s_ ecially adapted for bush work, squatters, miners, etc., as they will stand the hardest wear; send for one of these watches and compare it with what retail dealers call their finest Jbngli-h Hunters at from L 7 to LB, and you will at once declare burs to be the better watch. A £lO los ENGLISH KEYLESS HUNTING SILVER LEVER FOR £5 15s. Stewart Dawson and Co. ’s Superb Keyless Hunting Levers, a triumph of utility and convenience, a watch that is also perfectly airtight, dust-tight, and damp-tight, keeping the works perfectly clean. Unequalled at Ten Guineas, our direct cash price to customers being less than the actual wholesale price to the trade. Price, £$ 15s- Worth j£io 103. Also same watch in .open face, price £$ 15s, A £l2 123 ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING CHRONOGRAPH for £6 15s. Each watch a model of perfection; finest -plate movement, full jewelled in rubies,-real chronometer expansion balance, decimal dial, centre seconds, and outside stop; each timed to dead beat in posit! ns, to go exactly the same in extreme heat or cold. Notwithstanding the matchless perfection of this watch, we positively sell it a less price than retailers charge for ordinary inferior made watches. PRICE, £6 15s FULL RETAIL VALUE FOR TWELVE GUINEAS. Also, si me watch in open face, price £5 15s’ A £7 103 LADIES’ ENGLISH HUNTING LEVER for £$ 15s. Every watch a work of act, elegant in shape, chaste in design, of sterling English workmanship, watches that with fair usage will last a lifetime. We ask you to observe that wc supply our magnificent English Levers at a far less price than often charged for common foreign wat hes. Price, in Hunting Cases, saving to each pur chaser from £3 to £4. A Z 4 HUNTING DEFIANCE WATCH . For £1 IS?. None should hesitate to send for one o these watches, truly named “DEFIANCE,” if only to see the perfection that can be attained by a firm whose enterprise and energy have revolutionised the watch trade of Europe. Also open-face crystal fronq £1 7s fid ; all sterling silver cases. S. D. & CO.’S LAD' S’ and CENTS Magnificent English GOLD LEVERS are truly marvellous value. We sell our Ladies’ Gold Open face 1 Levers at L 7 15s, better watches than sold retail anywhere Hunters’ di to, at £to 15s, positive value for .£ls 15s; Open-face Keyless, at £lO 15s; and Hunters at Ll2 15s, nowhe e equalled underLao. Lhese are facts beyond dispute. Gents’ Open-face, £lO 15s; Hunting, £l4. 15s; Keyless Open-face, £l4 15s ; Hunters, £l6 15s—each watch saving to the purchaser from £5 to £lO. Stewart Dawson and Co.’s English Gold Three-quarter Platt Chronographs should be seen by every gentlemen who contemplates buying a Gold Watch.- The finest, handsomest, best, most modem, and greatest value in the world. advantages to customers and conditions OF SALE. First—Our gigantic resources of manufacturing, through our complete and efficient factory organisation, and our universal cash sales, enable us to supply each watch at less than half the usual retail priae. Second —Each customer is supplied with his watch on a week’s free approval and trial. The full amount paid is returned to anyone dissatisfied. Third—Every purchaser secures the most perfect English Lever ever made, manufactured entirely in our own workshops, in Liverpool, Engladd, unequalled for beauty, for strength, for durability, or as a time-keeper. The per : faction of improved mechanism throughout, in solidity of construction, and lasting qualities, each customer receiving an English Lever that will wear out three foreign or American-made Watches one after another, TESTIMONIALS have been received dusing the .last few years from wearers in all parts of the world, proving our Watches to be without equal. The following is a specimen Testimonial just received;—“'lo Stewart Dawson and Co., Auckland.—Thames, 18th April, 1884. Dear Sir, —Seeing tint you are in Auckland, I write to say that nearly five years ago I sent to Liverpool for one of your English Silver Levers as advertised for £3 15 s - I duly received the watch, and my son (William Thorbum) has carried it every day since then at his work, riding, etc., audit has never cost him one penny for repairs. *1 lie watch is a splendid timekeeper, and would cost in Auckland at least ten guineas. My son could have sold the watch a score of times, for double the price that it cost him, but would not part with it on any account. I may also say that I know several here who have sent for your watches, and they have given the greatast satisfaction. You arc at perfect liberty to publish this if you wish, as I am well known here, —I remain, yours truly, Wm. Lang Thorburn, Engineer, Tararu, Thames.” INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDERING WATCHES. STEWART DAWSON & GO. 19;, QUFK ~TREET, AUCKLAND. Don fail to write for Illustrated Watch Famphlet—most interesting to all j 60 pages of wonderful testimonials, British and colonial, IHastralions of Gold and Silver Albercs at wholesale English prices. With Ihis will also be sent a new tbirty-two page brochure, entitled “The English Lever, its Invention and Development,” with an essay on S. D. and Co.’s system of business, which should be read by -every intending watch-buyer. (The two pamphlets gratis tor the postage, 4d in Stamps 6 Ashburton Guardian. Cut this .Square out, and forward it with P.O. Order, payable to S.D. and Co., Auckland, or cash in registered letter; add 2s fid to the price of each watch, to pay post and registration 1 ! when we will forward watch selected and written guarantee by first return of post.—(Signed) Stewart Dawson and Co. Note—All Letters and Orders to be addressed