A DUCAL OPINION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 172, 24 July 1890, Page 6

A DUCAL OPINION.

A leading jeweller, in speaking of the very handsome cut of the Waterbury Watch Company, which appeared in a recenb issue of the "Review," gave your correspondent the following little incident illustrating the popularity and high estimation in which the American low-priced watches are held in England. He says : " While in England lasb summer, I happened to be in the vicinity of Eaton Hall, Chester, one of the country seats of the Duke of Westminster, where there was a meeting of yeomanry and some 200,000 people assembled. All were indulging in games and festivities, the Duke being present in person, aad mingling freely with the others, when His Grace was accosted by one of his friends, who remarked thab there were reported to be several pickpockets presenb,. and tbab he had better look out for his watch. The Duke laughingly replied that ho was grateful for the warning, as he had a watch which he valued highly, although of small cost, and bhab he would hate to part with ib, at the same time pulling out a handsome Waterbury. The master of the hounds informed me that he wore thia watch in preference to all others." This endorsement from one of the nobility whose income is 700,000 dollars per annum is not bad for an American product. This ia au then tie, and not an advertisement.—" Jewellei r's Review."