WATCHES STEWART DAWBON ' AND CO.'S LIVERPOOL WORLD-RENOWNED English Lever Watches! i FIRST IN QUALITY! FIBST IN WORKMANSHIP! '' FIRST IN UTILITY abd DURABILITY ! MATCHLESS IN DESIGN and FINISH! (Direct from S. D. & Oo.'b Factory in Lirerpool.) - JC THAN HALF COLONIAL PEICES. ' QLEASE NOTE.—The following Prices ■ include Duty Paid by us. Every Watch, quality considered, cannot be bought Retail under Double the prices:— • < a£7 10b ■ GENT'S ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING LEVER ■ roK £3 1& ■?-/ The most perfect English Hunting Levers in the *orld. Every Watch manufactured entirely in our own workshops. These Watches are specially adapted for bush work, ■quarters, miners, &c, aa they will stand the hardest wear; send for one of these watcheß and compare it with what retail dealers call their finest English Hunters at from £7 to £8, and you will at once declare ours to be the better watch. ' - BELLING; IN HUNDREDS. A £10 10* ENGLISH KEYLESS HUNTING SILVER LEVEiI *0* £5 15*. . . A triumph of utility and convenience, a ■ watch that is also perfectly air-tight, dusttight, and damp-tight, keeping the works perfectly clean. Made in two sizes, small and medium. PRICE, £5 15s. WORTH TEN GUINEAS. Also, same Watch in open face, price £4 15s. A £12 12s ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING CHRONOGRAPH *M £6 15s. : Each watch a model of perfection ; finest f-plate movement, full jewelled in rubies, real ohronometer expansion balance, decimal dial, centre seconds, and outside stop; each timed to'dead beat in positions, to go exactly ■'* the Baine in extreme heat or cold._ Notwithstanding the matchless perfection ot this watch, we positively sell it at a less price , than retailers charge for ordinary inferiormade watches. PBICE, £6 15s. FULL BETAIL VALUE FOR TWELVE GUINEAS. Also, same watch, in open face, price £5 15s. .: ' A'£7los. « LADIES' ENGLISH HUNTING LEVER r°" £3 15a EVERY WATCH A WORK OF ART,' elegant in shape, chaste in design, of sterling , English workmanship,—watches that with fair" usage will last a life time. We ask you 1 to observe that we supply our magnificent English Levers at a far less price than is often chareed for common foreign watches. PRICE IS HUNTING CASES, £3 15s } IN OPEN FACE, £3 ss; prflCticallT Ba"ng ,to ,eacn . purchaser from £3 to £4. S. D. and CO.'S LADIES' AND GENT'S MAGNIFICENT ENGLISH GOLD LEVERS are truly marvellous value. ■ For Prioeß and Illustrations please see vir^Watch Pamphlet, most interesting, sent free •v't oareceipt of 4din stamps for its postage. ■' Each Customer is supplied with his watch on ' ;^i l!t -;B week's free approval and trial. *!The jfull amount paid is" returned to anyone "*-C"^i dissatisfied. '*/;•:*." Watch is Guaranteed. , 30,000 Testimonials have been re- * .j^b oWyect during the last few years from 1 ..■£*§ w%rei« in all parts of the world, V.V* proving our Watches to be without ST^ equal. The following are Specimen Testimonials justkreceived from this Diotrict :— "To STEWART DAWSON^ & CO., " Auofiland. ... , •' Thames, 18th April, 1884... t -<|VDoar 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 tne wato!) > an(J mv Bon (William {Tliorburn) has oarried it every day since then at his work —mining, bush 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, dmble the price that it ' cost him, but would'npt part with it on any account. '. I may also say "that I know several here who have sent for your watyhes, and they . have given the greatest satisfaction^ You are at perfect liberty to publish this if you wish, M 1 am well known here. • ; ' ■*' ■• "I remain yours truly, . • , " Wm. Lak& Thobbubw, Engineer, " Tararu, Thames." ' ' " Tararu, Thames, April 26th, 1884, > , «• Messrs Siewabi Dawbon & C 0.,; " Dear Sirs, —About four years ago when in :-' want of a wateb, I was recommended to send to your establishment at Liverpool for one of y©ur £3 15» English Silver Hunting Levers. • I did so, and receded the same. I have \\ carried the watch about,with me everyday ainco: it is an excellent timekeeper, and has stood lotß of knocking about, without being f in any way affected. By tho nature of my. business I am constantly riding, and on.one. occasion the horse I was riding fell, and I was thrown to the ground with such force as to smash .the glass into atoms/hut the watch did not Iwpfand it keeps as correct time now as it did when I first raceired it. " I am yours truly, "KichabdH. Em-is, Storekeeper, 11 Tararu, Thame«." ALL LETIER9 AND ORDERS TO BE ADDBESSED— TO Stewart Dawsonfy Co. ■•v^:??:"'.i9s, Queen Strset, Xiw- " ' ' 'AUCKLAND. ,
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4793, 20 May 1884, Page 4
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796Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4793, 20 May 1884, Page 4
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