A PRETTY CONCELT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4628, 23 January 1894, Page 3

A PRETTY CONCELT.

' ■ f The enormous sales of the Waterbury ' have led firms who do not care for a steady turnsver at a legitimate profit to explore the purliousof the Continent for cheap inferior "tickers"—wo do net call them watches—with whioh to "run the Watorbury," These possess onovhtuo only—thatol showingtho I dealer a return of some 150 per cent, on his ," outlay. That thoy should keep time is a I matter of no moment,' so long as they re- , somhlo the Waterbury in outward appearanco, style of casing, etc, with sufficient 1 closeness to deceive a careless or unwary i purchaser. Firms doing this ofton say to us "What do we care; we can make, five hillings a watoh, more on them thon wo 1 san on yours; and as to keeping time, well, our troubles about that." Buyers requiring roliable watches can trust the Waterbury, and the public requiring the correct time should sco that thoy get it. Tho gents' or ladies' Waterbury, gold filled or in sterling silver, aro handsome, inexpensive, and durable | whilst the nickel varieties are so well .known that thoy require no further recommendation. It is a pretty ooncelt for hero and thero a stray trader to think his imports of tho " Nobuohadnezzar," tho " Millemum," the " Gonbung," or some other specially titled monstrosity, has any effect on tho Waterbury market, whilst for every watch he nervously orders over one hundred Waterbnrys aro always afloat for New Zealand. Tho real strength of the Waterbury lies in its absolute reliability, in other words its absoluto refusal to keep anything but tho correot timo. We sometimes sco" tickers"-wo still bar them any other title-offered for salo which are really wonderful combinations. They not only exhibit the whoio of the celestial bodies on their facts, but keep time, or profess to.tell you the slate of the monoy market, the amount of any partioulal member's indebtedness at Bellamy's, and the name of tho next Bank to reconstruct in Australia. The Waterbury does not do this, It simply eeps correct time and goes on doing so,