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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1376, 10 November 1884, Page 4

Business Notice. gN GLISH WATCHES! engltsh"*watches ! SPECIAL ANdImPORTANT 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. The extraordinary merits of Stewart Dawson and Co.’s Liverpool English Levers are too well known throughout the whole of New 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 equalled in the history of watch-making. ORDER EARLY. ORDER EARLY. Please note. —The following prices include duty paid by us. Every watch, quality considered, cannot be bought retail under Double the Prices. A £7 los GENT’S ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING LEVER For £3 15s. The most perfect English Hunting Levers in the world. Every watch manufactured entirely in our own workshops, These watches are specially 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 English Hunters at from L 7 to LB, and you will at once declare ours 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 £lO ios. Also same watch in open face, price £5 15s. A £l2 12s 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, 1 centre seconds, and outside stop; each timed to dead beat in positions, 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, same watch in open face, price £$ Ijs A £l ios LADIES’ ENGLISH HUNTING LEVER for £3 15s. Every watch a work of art, elegant in shape, -haste in design, of sterling English workmanship, watches that with fair usage will last a lifetime. We ask you to observe that we supply our magnificent English Levers at a far less price than often charged for cammon foreign watches. Price, in Hunting Cases, £3 15s; in open face,' L 3 Ss; practically saving to each purchaser from £3 to £4. A £4 HUNTING DEFIANCE WATCH For £1 15s. None should hesitate to send for one o r these watches, truly named "DEFIANCE,” f 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 front, £1 Js 6d; 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-faced Levers at Ly 15s, better watches than sold retail anywhere &£ii 15s. Hunters’ ditto, at £ 15s, positive value for £ls 15s; Open-face Keyless, at £lO 15s; and Hunters at Ll2 15s, nowhe e equalled under L2O. Lhese are facts beyond dispute. Gents’ pen-face, j£io 15s; Hunting, £l4 15s; Keyess Open-face, 15s; Hunters, £l6 15s—watch saving to the purchaser from £lO. Stewart Dawson and Cr English Gold Three-quarter Plate Chronogiaphs 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 CTSTOMERS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE. First—Our gigantic resources of manufac turing, 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 a 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, England, unequalled for beauty, for strength, or durability, or as a time-keeper. The perfection of improved mechanism throughout, in solidity of construction, and lasting qualities, each customer ecemng an English Lever that will wear out three foreign or American-made Watches one after another. years trom wearers in all parts of tha world, proving our Watches to be without equal. The following is a specimen Testimonial just received:—“To Stewart Dawson and Co., Auckland.—Thames, 18th April, 1884. Dear Sir, —Seeing that 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 £t> i S s - I duly received the watch, and my son (William Thorbum) has carried it every day since then at his work, riding, etc., and it has never cost him one penny for repairs. The 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 jour watches, and they have given the greatast satisfaction. You are at perfect liberty to publish this f you wish, as I am well known here,—l remain, yours truly, Wm. Lang Thorburn, Engineer, Tararu Thames.” INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDERING WATCHES. 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 6d to the price of each watch, to pay post and registration 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 STEWART DAWSON & GO. 19?, QUEEN STPEET, AUCKLAND. on’t fai write for Illustrated Watch Pamphlet—most interesting to all; 60 pages wonderful testimonials, British and colonial. fHnstrat ions of Gold and Silver Alberts at wnolesale English prices. With this will also be sent a new thirty-two page brochure, en- ( titled “The English Lever, its Invention and Development,” with an essay on S. D. and Co.’s system of business, which should be 1 read by every intending watch-buyer. The ( two pamphlets grali" fo the postage, 4d in TESTIMONIALS have been received dusing the last few addressed « 6