LETTERS FROM PROMINENT CITIZENS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 18 September 1888, Page 3

LETTERS FROM PROMINENT CITIZENS.

ME LATE KEY. HENRY WARD

BEECHER.

People have ah idea that tlie Watbrbitry because a cheap watch is cheaply made. A .visit to the Company's factory ab -Water' bury, Conn.,- would, decidedly -alter, tbid impression. On seeing, the extent and variety of the machinery us^ed, and the heabnesp, order, and organisation there exhibited, you begin to realise that making ,a cheap watch (and good tiuie-keeper)"is not,' by any means, the off-hand affair you had thoughb it was. Aa you pass through department after department and observe the working of wonderful automatic machines, which: make parts so fine that you can scarcely see.bh^m, and yet,so accurate that they cftn J?e t^ken 0 random and f Mcd together to. form a" perfect watch:, as .you note the handling of the. parts by dainty and skilful fingers, fcho delicacy of "the processes, and the thorough: .loss and care as to every detail, you find it difficult to■- imagine that :; they.>.-'. are not making hundred-dollar watches, and you then become convinced that the WaxbrBtrRY id, cheap, nob because pqprly made, but because unique and simple in construction. -