ALWAYS THE WAY.
If you meet a man on the wharf using strong language because he has missed the steamer just passing Terawhiti, you can safely wager that he does not carry a Waterbury. People who do are never in a hurry. They walk down leisurely, and catch their boats every time, Bimply because their watches have been built to show them only ‘the correct time,’ and not to mislead them by an approximation only. The man who, when asked the time, looks at hiß watch and, aftei having got a glimpse of the sun's position and gone through a few arithmetical calculations on his fingers, tells you, * Oh, about twenty or twenty-five minutes to one,’ carries a gold chronograph, or some other ‘graph,’ which cost him twenty guineas to buy, and as much more to keep it going at all. If he owned a Waterbuy, his answer would be short, sharp, and correct, sir ; not a minute too fast, and never slow.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 896, 3 May 1889, Page 25
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