A PRETTY CONCEIT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 220, 16 September 1893, Page 2

A PRETTY CONCEIT.

The enormous sales of the Waterbury have led firms who do not care for a steady turnover at a legitimate profit to explore the purlieus of tho Continent for cheap inferior " tickers"—wo do not call them watches—with which to " run the Waterbury." These possess one virtue only— thab of showing the dealer a return of some 150 per cent, on his outlay. Thab they should keep rime is a matber of no moment, so long as they resemble the Waberbury in oubward appearance, style of casing, etc., with sufficient closeness to decoivo a careless or unwary purchaser. Firms doing thia often say to us, " What do we care ; wo can make fiva shillings a watch more on them than we can on yours; and as to keeping time well, our troubles about that." Buyers requiring reliable watches can trust the Waterbury, and the public requiring the correct time should see thab thoy got 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 thab bhey require no further recommendabion. It is a protty conceib for here and bhere a stray trador to think his imports of tho "Nebuchadnezzar," the "Millenium," tho " Gonbung," or some other specially titled monstrosity, has any effect on the Waterbury market, whilsb for every watch he nervously orders over one hundred Waterburys are always afloat for New Zoaland. i The real strength of bho Watorbury lies in its absolute reliability, in other words its absolute refusal to keep anybhing bub bhe correcb time. We sometimes see " tickers "—we still bar them any other title—offered tor sale which are really wonderful combinations. They not only exhibit the whole of bhe celestial bodies on their faces, but keep titae, or profess to, Sell you the state of tho money market, the amount of any particular member^ indebtedness at Bellamy's, and the name of the nexb bank to reconstruct in Australia. The Waterbury does not. do this. Ib simply keeps correct time, and goes on doins so,