OUR CONTINENTAL COMPETITORS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 9089, 28 April 1890, Page 3

OUR CONTINENTAL COMPETITORS.

Some time since an attempt was made to discredit the Waterbary Watch in the regions of the German Empire; but the result is likely to be very beneficial to the Waterbury, judging from the following account which appeared in the April number of the Jewellers’ Journal, Chicago, 111.: “The Allg. Journal der Uhbm gives a detailed account of the suit brought by the agent of the Waterbury Watches for Germany against a Cologne watchmaker, who published an article in .the Allg. Auzeigeb Fur Mech, in which he abused the Waterbury Watch as being a fraud and a snare. The defendant persisted in comparing it with high-priced and exact timekeepers, and brought numerous witnesses to prove that it did not always keep as good time nor last as. long as a lOOdol watch. His concluding argument was that watches turned out at the rate of two a minute .must necessarily he perfect frauds. Of course the Court, being a German Court, decided against the American watch, and thq defendant was acquitted. The same number of the Journal describes and illustrates the Waterbury watch ia all its details, thus giving it'a three-page advertisement free. With our German friends across the Atlantic we fear it is quite like people the world over; those who cry fraud first and loudest are generally up to irregular or fraudulent practices themselves. English and American exporters meet in every clime goods that look and merchants that speak German, whose ‘Sheffield cutlery’ and whose ‘American tools,’ all come from the ‘ Kaiser’empire. The Waterbury is all that it claims to be, and, like wine, it is constantly improving with age, and not a fraud by any means.” The WATERBURY, despite the attempts to prejudice it made by interested parties swayed by motives of envy, malice, hatred,and all unoharitableness, still remains first favourite with the intelligent public, who recognise in it all tbe merits claimed for it. It is a strong, handsome, well-finished: and serviceable timekeeper, which, unlike its host of imitators and would-fce competitors, should it meet with an accident may be efficiently repaired at small cost- at any of the Company’s various repair dejjdfa throughout the Colonies. Price, Series, E 13s 6d, series Jor L 20s. To be obtained from any respectable storekeeper throughout the Colony.