A PRETTY CONCEIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 March 1894, Page 3

A PRETTY CONCEIT.

The enormous sales: o( the Waterbury have led films who do not care for a steady turnover at a legitimate profit to explore the purlieus of the Continent for cheap Inferior " tiolers "—ue do not call them watches—witl, which to 'ran the Waterkry. 1 These possess ono virtuuonly—tha(pf snowing the dealer a return of some 150 per cent. on hjs outlay. That they should keep time is a matter ol no moment,-so loops they re< somble the Waterburyin outward appearahco,: stylo of easing,; etc., with, sufficient cloGoncss to deceive a oarelessor unwary piirohaEer.' Firms, doing ,this?ofteh sayto us" \%nt do we bate; we ,can make . five shillings a . watoh ~more oS.,them thon we can oh yours jlMas to keepliig'time.' well, our troubles about that," •'BuyeS requiring reliable watoheif oan;'trust v the' \Vijterbury, and the psblio requiring: the correct , time! 'fihould eeethat iheygetit. : :The..gonta'or igg^do^tliDg

silver! „ are ■< handsomo, Inexpensive, •*and well known,- that they require no.further recommehdiition, -'lt is Vpretfycoric'eitfor here and there. a stray trader' to. think his tmports of ' 'th'e '' Nebuchadnezzar, ,l th() ?! Millenium,l. the'. V,Gonbtmg'," t :or..'some other specially' titled monstrosity, r bas any effect on the Watorhury .'market, ■whilst for every • watch" he nervously, orders' over one I hundred;Waterburys ■ afloat for New; Zealand.: stcQngitL 'oi tho iV?aterbury. liesin its absolute reliability, inother, words its absolute refusal to keep any, thing but the correct time. We sometimes see" iiokers"-we still bar them any other title—offered for sale which aro really wonderful combinations; They not'only exhibit the whoio of the celestial their facts, but keep tunc, or profess to.teli you -thacßtate of,tne;money.,market, the amount of "any.'partioulal member's indebtedness" at Bellamy's, and the nanio'of the next Bank to reoonstruot in Australia.; The Waterbury does not do this, It simply keeps correct time and soes on doing , bo,