A PRETTY CONCEIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4623, 16 January 1894, Page 3

A PRETTY CONCEIT.

Tho enormous sales of the Waterbury have led firms who do not care for a steady turnover at a legitimate profit to explore the purlieus of the Continent for cheap inferior " tickers"—we do not call them watches—with which to "run the Waterbury." These possess one vh tue only- that of showing tho dealer a return of sonic 160 percent, on his outlay. That they should keep time is a matter of no moment, so long as they resemble the Waterbury in outward appearance, style of casing, etc., with sufficient oloseness to deceive a careless or unwary purchaser. Firms doing this often say to us" What do we care; we can make five hillings a watch, more on them then we ean on yours; and as to keeping time, well, our troubles about that." Buyers requiring reliable watches can trust tho Waterbury, and tho public requiring tho correct tiuio should see that they get it. The gents' or ladies' Waterbury, gold filled or in sterling silver, are handsome, inexpensive, and durable; whilst the nickel varieties are so well known that they require no further recommendation, It is a pretty conceit for licre aud there a stray trader to think ids imports of the "Nebuchadnezzar," the "Millemum," the "Gonbung," or somo other specially titled monstrosity, has any effect on tho Waterbury market, whilst for every watch he nervously orders over one hundred Waterburys are always afloat for New Zealand. Tho real strength of the Waterbury lies in its absolute reliability, in other words its absolute refusal to keep anything but tho coneot time, We sometimes see" tickers"-we still bar them any other title—offered for salo which are really wonderful combinations. They not only exhibit the whole of the celestial bodies on their facis, but keep time, or profess to.tell you the state of the money market, the amount of any particulal member's indebtedness at Bellamy's, and the name of the next Bank to reconstruct In Australia. The Waterbury does not do this, It simply keeps correct time and goes on doing so.