A PRETTY CONCEIT.
The enormous sales of ihe ffaterbury have led firms who do not euro for a steady turnover at a legitimate profit to explore the purlieus of the Continentfor cheap interior " tickersto do not call them watcheswitl'. whioh to 'run the Wntorbury.' These possess one of showing the dealer a return of some 150 per cent, on bis outlay. That thoy should keep time Is a natter ot no moment, so long as they resemble the Waterbury in ouiward appearance, style of casing, elc,, with sufficient closeness to deceive a careless or unwary purchaser. Firms doing this often say io ua" What do we care; wommako 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 watches can trust the Waterbnry, and the public requiring tho correct timo should seo that they get it. The gents'or ladies' Waterbury, gold filled or in sterling silver, are handsome, inexpensive, and durable; whilst the nickel vaiieties are so well known that thoy require recommendation, It is a pretty conceit for here and there a stray trade;: to think his imports of thp " Nebuohaclnezzar," tho " Millenium," the " OonbMg," or some other specially titled monstrosity, has any effeot on the Waterbury market, whilst for every watch he nervously orders over one hundred Waterburys are always afloat for Now Zealand, Tho real strength of the Waterbpry lies in its absolute reliability, in other words its absolute refusal to keep anything but the correct timo, We sometimes see" tickers"—we still bar them any other title—offered for sale which are really wonderful combinations, They not only exhibit the whole of the celestial bodies on their facts, but. keep time, or profess to,teli you the state of the money market, the amount of any particnlal member's indebtedness at 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.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4693, 12 April 1894, Page 3
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334A PRETTY CONCEIT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4693, 12 April 1894, Page 3
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