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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1418, 31 December 1884, Page 4

Business Notice. gN GLI S H WATC HE S ! ENGLISH WATCHES ! 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. 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 10s 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; I 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 wau.li. , A £lO los ENGLISH KEYLESS HUNT- , ING SILVER LEVER FOR £5 iSs. Stewart Dawson and Co.’s Superb Keyless f Hunting Levers, a triumph of utility and convenien'ce, a watch that is also perfectly air. j tight, dust-tight, and damp-tight, keeping th< ■ works perfectly clean. Unequalled at Ter Guineas, our direct cash price to customer being less than the actual wholesale price t( the trade. Price, £3 15s. Worth 10s. Also same watch in open face, price £5 iss A £i2 12s ENGLISH SILVER HUNTINC j CHRONOGRAPH for £6 15s. [’ Each watch a model of perfection; fines -plate movement, full jewelled in rubies, rea j chronometer expansion balance, decimal dial centre seconds, and outside stop; each tiraei to dead beat in positions, to go exactly th II same in extreme heat or cold. Notwithstand ing the matchless perfection of this watch, w • positively sell it a less price than retailer charge for ordinary inferior made watches. I* PRICE, £6 15s 1 FULL RETAIL VALUE FOR TWELVE GUINEAS. Also, same watch in open face, price £5 15s , A£7 10s LADIES’ ENGLISH HUNTINt LEVER for £3 15s. Every watch a work of art, elegant in shape ■jhaste in design, of sterling English workmat ■ship, watches that with fair usage will last lifetilfte. We ask you to observe that we.su [ ply our magnificent English Levers at a ft . less price than often charged for cammo foreign watches. Price, in Hunting Cases , £3 15s; in open face, L 3 ss; practical! 10 saving to each purchaser from £3 to £4. y A£4 HUNTING DEFIANCE WATCI For £l lss. t- None should hesitate to send for one ( these watches, truly named “DEFIANCE, j f only to see the perfection that can be ai tained by a firm whose enterprise and energ r have revolutionised the watch trade of Europt ’ Also open-face crystal front, £1 7s fid; a ** sterling silver cases. S. D. & CO.’S LADI i S’ and CENT! 1- Magnificent English GOLD LEVERS at truly marvellous value. We sell our Ladie Gold Open-faced Levers at L 7 15s, bette j watches than sold retail anywhere at/ll 15s Hunters’ ditto, at / 15s, positive value fc . £l3 15s; Open-face Keyless, at £lO 15s; an }I Hunters at Ll2 15s, nowhe e equalled unde r " L2O. Lhese are facts beyond dispute. Gent , pen-face, .£lO 15s; Hunting, £l4 15s; Kej *» ess Open-face, 15s; Hunters, £l6 15swatch saving to the purchaser from £ I 10. b Stewart Dawson and Cr English Gol fhree-quarter Plate Chronographs should b ; seen by every gentlemen who contemplate f. buying a Gold Watch. The finest, handsomesl best, most modem, and greatest value in th | world. ADVANTAGES TO CTSTOMERS AND CONDITION ;• OF SALE. First—Our gigantic resources of manufac '» turing, through our complete and eflicien factory organisation, and our universal casl 1 sales, enable us to supply each watch at les than half the usual retail priae. Second—Each customer is supplied will X a watch on a week’s free approval and trial The full amount paid is returned to anyom I dissatisfied. Third—Every purchaser secures the mos perfect English Lever ever made, manufacturer r entirely in our own workshops, in Liverpool England, unequalled for beauty, for ’strength; 1 or durability, or as a time-keeper. The per 1 fection of improved mechanism throughout, h , solidity of construction, arid lasting qualities, each customer eceiving an English Lever thai will wear out three foreign or American-made Watches one after another. J or\ TESTIMONIALS have beer jUjUUU received dusing the last few years from wearers in all parts of tht world, proving our Watches to be without equal. 1 The following is a specimen Testimonial just received:—“To Stewart Dawson and Co., I 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 £3 15s. 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 host 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 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 fid 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 addressed STEWART DAWSON & GO. I 9«;, QUEEN STBEET, AUCKLAND. on’t fai- write for Illustrated Watch Pamphlet— most interesting to all; 60 pages wonderful testimonials, British and colonial. /Castrations of Gold and Silver Alberts at wnolesale English prices. With this will also be sent a new thirty-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 groli“ fo the postage, * D • $