A PRETTY CONCEIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4674, 20 March 1894, Page 3

A PRETTY CONCEIT.

The 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 oheap inferior " tickersie do not_ call them watoheswith whioh to 'run the" Waterbury. 1 Theso possess one virtu« only—that oi showing the denier a return of some 160 per cent, un 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 oloscness to deceivo a careless or unwary purchaser. Firms doing this often say to us "What do we care; we can make five shillings a watch, more on them then we can on yours; and as to keeping time, well, our trouble? abopt that," Euyersrequiring reliable mWi w trust fhe Waterbury, and the public requiring (he correct tiipe should see that they get it, The gents'or ladies' Waterbury, gold filled or in sterling silver, are handsome, inexpensive, and durable; whilst tho nickel varieties are so well known that they/- require no further recommendation, It is a pretty conceit for here and there a stray trader to think his imports of the " Nebuohadnezzar," the " Millemum," the " Gonbung," or Bome other specially titled monstrosity, has any eileot on the Waterbury market, whilst for every Wfltph he nervously orders over one hunared Waterbprys are always afloat for New Zealand. Tho veal Bt'rengjh of the Waterbury lies in its absolute reliability,'in other words its absolute refusal to keep anything but the correot time. We.sometimes see i' tickers"-jye still bar them nny other titled-offered for sale whioh aro replly wonderful combinations, They" not oniy exhibit the whoie of the celestial bodies on their facts, but keep time, or profess to,tell you the'state of the money market, the amonnt of nny particulnl member's indebtedness at Bellamy's, and the name of the next Bank to reconstruct iu Australia. Tho Waterbury does not do this, It eimply keeps correot time and coes on doing so.