A PRETTY CONCEIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4513, 2 September 1893, Page 3

A PRETTY CONCEIT.

The enormous soles of the Waterbury have led firms who do not oaro for a steady turnover (it a legitimate profit to explore the purlieus ot the Continent for cheap inferior " tickers"—we do net call them watches—with which to "run the Waterbuty." These possess dno viituo only—that of showing the dealer a return of some 150 per cent, on bis outlay. That they should keep time Is a matter ot no moment, so long'as they re-, semblc tho Wafcrbury in outward appearand, style ol casing, e(o., with sufficient closeness (o deceive a careless er unwary purchaser, Finns doiug this often say to us "What do wo saro; wo caninako five shillings a watch more on them then wo can on yours; and as to kcoping time, well, | our troubles about that," Buyers requiring roliahlo watoheo can trust (he Waterbury, and the public requiring the correct time should aeo that they get it, The gents' or laities' AYntcrlitity, gold filled or in sterling allvor, are handsome, inexpensive, and durable; whilst the nickel varieties are so we'J known that they rcijuiro no further recommemWon. It is a pretty conceit for here and there a stray trader to think Mb imports of the" Nebuchadnezzar," Hie" Mil'enium," ihe ■' Godlunj," or scmo other specially titled moustros : ty,bf,s'auy effect on the Wateibury markei, wb'ist for, every watch'he nervously oi'dovs over one hundred Waterburys are always a?oat for New Zealand. The leal ihe Waterbury lies iu itsa'iso'uie ra'iab'Hiy, iu other words its absolu ,c vo.usJ. to keep anything but tho correal i ; uie, We Someinds seo'! i'ekers "—wo sii'J bar them aay qibcr title—offered for sa'e which ate really ivoadetlul combinations.". (Thoy. not only exhibit the whole ot the colestial bodies on jh'olr faces, bat keen time, or pjofess to, tell you'th? stajo oj t»o monoy'market, the particular n| nber's indebtedness at Bellamy's.and the name ot the nest Bank to reconstruct'"in Australia, Tho Waterbury does not do this. It simnly keeps correct time, and goes on doing so; *