LETTERS FROM PROMISES? CITIZENS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9129, 10 August 1888, Page 6

LETTERS FROM PROMISES? CITIZENS.

THE LATE REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER.

People have an idea that the W'atekbubv, because a cheap watoh, is cheaply made. A visit to the Company's factory at Waterbury, Conn., would decidedly alter this impression. On seeing the extent and variety of the machinery used, and the neatness, order and organization there exhibited, you begin to realize that making a cheap watch (and good time-keeper) i> rot, by any means, the off-hand affair you had thought it was. As you pass through department after department and observi the working of wonderful automatic machines, which make parts so fine thai you can scarcely see them, and yet so accurate that they can be taken at random and fitted together to form a perfect watch : as you note the handling of the parts by dainty and skilful fingers, the delicacy of the processes, and the thoroughness and care as to every detail, you find it difficult to imagine that fchey are not making hundred-dollar watches, and you then become convinced that the Watekbury is cheap, not because poorly made, but because unique and simple in construction.

FROM WEARERS. November 6, 1885. Dear Sir, Accept my thanks for your gift of a Waterbury Watch. I had heard the fame thereof, but had never carried one. It seems impossible that so good a watch could be sold for three dollars and a-half and any profit be made ! I shall wear in under a gold repeater, and they can compete with each other as to accuracy. The watch is quite handsome, and appears quite as well as silver watches that cost five times as much. I am, truly yours, Henry Ward Be£CHKs. Columbia College, New York, President's Room, Dec. 4, 18S5. Dear Sib, On the 22nd October ult., I received from you a Waterbury Watch. It was running a little slow, and I moved the regulator, after which it ran about as much too fast. On the morning of the first day of November I carefully touched the regulator again, and set the watch exactly with a Jurgensen watch, which is the most perfect portable time-keeper I ever knew, not excepting nautical chronometers. Since that! time it has kept precise pace with the Jurgensen watch, and the difference between them is not perceptible to-day. P? r : haps, if the Waterbury Watch had a seeonu hand, some few seconds of variation might , be discovered ; but there is no apparent; difference between the ■ minute hands capable of being detected. As this seem: to me to be an extraordinary performance, I have thought) you might be interested in knowing ifc. Yours truly, F. A. P. BarnardWaterbury Watch Co : Allow me to take this opportunity o> expressing my admiration for the excel lence of this simple and inexpensive watch. It keeps better time than a silver watch u> our house, which cost, at a reliable dealer s, seven times as much. Each of my boy s carries one of these Waterbury watches, and with great satisfaction. Yours very truly, Wai. B. Dwtoht, Professor of Natural History, Vassar College. This is to certify that the enclosed Waterbury watch has been run, side by side,, wiw the U. S. Regulator Clock in the Post Otnc° at St. Louis, Mo., also with one that is reg lated and is connected by telegraph the one in Washington University, i° r ' test, and has not varied in any way pen** ible in two weeks' time. Respectfully, Sam. H. Simmons, St. Louis P. 0., St. Louis, Mo. Sole Agents for Auckland— B. PORTER & CO.

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