A PRETTY CONCEIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4666, 10 March 1894, Page 3

A PRETTY CONCEIT.

The enormous sales of the Waterbury have led firms who do not oaro for a steady turnover at a legitimate profit to explore the purlieus of the Continent tor cheap inferior " tickers"—?e do not call them watoheswith which to 'rim the Waterbury.' ' These possess one virtue only—that oi showing tbe dcalor a return of some 150 per cent, on his outlay, That they should keep time is a matter of no moment, so long as they resemble the Watorbury in outward appearance, stylo of casing, etc, with sufficient closeness to deceive a careless or unwary purchaser. Firms doing this often say to us" What do we care; wo can make five shillings a watch, more on them then we can on yours; and as to keeping time, well, our troubles about that." Buyers requiring reliable watohca can trust the Waterbury, and the public requiring the correct time should see that they get it. The gents' or ladies' Waterbury, gold filled or in storling silver, aro handsome, inexpensive, and durable; whilst the nickel varieties are so well known that they require no further recommendation. It is a pretty conceit for here aud there a stray trader to think his imports of the "Nebuchadnezzar," the " Millen.um," the " Gonbung," or some other specially" titled monstrosity, has any fleet on the Waterbury market, whilst for overy watch he nervously orders over one hundred Watcrburys are alway3 afloat for New Zealand. The real strength of the Waterbury lies in its absolute reliability, in other words its absolute refusal to keep anything but the coneot time. We sometimes seo" tickers"—we still bar them any other title—offered for salo which are really wonderful combinations. They not only exhibit the whoie of the celestial bodies on their facts, but keep time, or profess to.tell you tho state of the money market, the amount of any particulal member's indebtedness ut 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.