A PRETTY CONCEIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4689, 7 April 1894, Page 3

A PRETTY CONCEIT.

The enormous sales of the Wateibuty Jiave led firms who do'nol care for a steady turnover at a legitimate profit to explore the purlieus of the Continont for cheap inferior " fotors "-to do not call them watcheswitl. which to'run the Waterbury.' These possess one virtuuonly-that of showing the dealer a return of some 150 per cent, on his outlay. That they Bhould keep time is'a matter of no moment, so long as they resemble the Waterbury 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; we 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 watche* can trust tho Waterbury, and the publio requiring the correct time should see that they get it, Tho gents'or ladies' Waterbury, gold filled or in sterling silver, aro handsome, inexpensive,- and durable; whilst the nioket varieties aro so well known that they require no further recommendation. It is a pretty conceit for hero and there a stray trader to think his imports of the "Nebuchadnezzar," the " Millenium," tho " Gonbung," or some othsr specially titled monstrosity, has any effect on the Waterbury market, whilst for every watch he nervously orders over one hundred Waterburys are always afloat for New Zealand. Tho veal strength of the Waterbury lies in its absolute reliability, in other words its absolute refusal to keep anything but the correct time, We somotimes see" tickers'!—we still bar them any other title-offered for sale which are really wonderful combinations. They not only exhibit tho whoie of tho celestial bodies on their facis, but keep time,, or profess to,teli you tho state of the money market, the amount of any particulal member's indebtedness at Bellamy's, and tho name of the next Bank to reconstruct in Australia. The Waterbury does not do this, It simply keeps correct time anicOes on doing so,