A PRETTY CONCEIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4712, 7 May 1894, Page 3

A PRETTY CONCEIT.

The enormous sales ot the Waterbury have led firms who do not care for a steady turnover at a legitimate profit to explore the purlieus ol the Continentfor okeap, inferior " tickers"—w do not call them wntcheswitl, which to 'rau tho Watcrbury,' These possess one virtue only—that o! showing tho dealer a return of some 150 per cent, oh lus outlay. That they should keep time is a matter ot no moment,- so long as thoy resemble the Watcrbury in outward appearance, style ot casing, etc, with sufficient closeness to deceivo a careless or unwary purchaser, Firms doing this often say to üb" What do wo care; we canmako fivo shillings a watch, mora on them then we can on yours; and as to keeping time, woll, our troubles about that." Buyers requiring roliablo watches can trust tho Waterbury, and the public requiring tho correct timo should see that thoy get it. The gents' or ladies' Watorbury, gold filled or in sterling silver, nro handsome, inexpensive, find durable; whilst the nickel varieties are so well known that thoy require no further recommendation, It is a pretty conceit for here and thcro a stray trader to think his imports ot tho " Nebuchadnezzar," the " Millcnium," tho " Gonbung," or some other specially titled monstrosity, has any effect on the Watcrbury market, whilst for every watch ho nervously orders over one hundred Waterburys ore alway3 afloat for New Zealand, Tbo teal strength of tho Watcrbury lies in its absolute reliability, in other words its absoluto refusal to keep anything but tho correct time We sometimes sco" tickers"—vro still bar them any other! title—offered for sole which are really wonderful combinations. They not only exhibit tho whoioot the colcstial bodies on their facts, but keep time, or profess to.tell you tbe stale of the money market, the! amount of any particulal member's indebtedness at Bellamy's, and tbe name of the next Bank to reconstruct in Australia, Tho Waterbury does not do this. It simply beeps correct timo and coos on doing so.