A PRETTY CONCEIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4737, 4 June 1894, Page 3

A PRETTY CONCEIT.

Tho enormous sales o! the Waterbury Imve led firms who do not carolor a steady turnover at a legitimate profit to explore tho purlieus ot the Coutinontfor cheap, interior " tickers ; to do not call them watches—witl. which to'run tho Watcrbury,' These possess one vivtuuonly—that of showing the dealer a return of some 150 per cent, on hjs outlay. That they should keep time is a matter o! no moment, so long as they resemble the Waterbury in outward appearance, style of casing, eto., with suilicient closeness to deceive a careless or unwary purchaser.' Firms doing this often say to us " What do wo care; wo can make five shillings n watch, more on them'then wo can on yours; and as to keeping time, well, out troubles about that," Buyers requiring reliable watches can trust tho Waterbury, and the public requiring tho correct time should SCO that thoy get it. The gents' or ladies' Waterbury, gold filled or in sterling silver, are handsome, inexpensive, and durable; whilst the nickel varieties are so well known that they require no furtho recommendation. It is a pretty conceit for hero and there a stray trader to think bis imports of tho "Nebuchadnezzar," the " Millcn.um," tho " Gonbuug," or somo nlhcr specially titled monstrosity, has any effect on the Waterbury market, whilst fofi overy watch he nervously orders over one hundred Waterburys are always afloat for New Zealand. Tho real strength of tho Waterbury lies in its obsolute reliability, in other words its absolute refusal to keep anything but tho correct tinio. We sometimes sis" tickers"-we still bar' them any other I title—offered for sate which are really wonderful combinations. They not only exhibit the whoie of the celestial bodies on their facts, but keop timo, or profess to.teli you the state of the money market, tho amount of any particulal member's indeb tedness at Bellamy's, and the name of tho next Bank to reconstruct in Australia. Tho Waterbury does not do this. It simply keeps correct time and cogs on doing so,