Stewart Dawson & Co. ENGLISH WATCHES ! ENGLISH WATCIIJ! SPECIAL and important ANNOUNCEMENT 1 STEWART DAWSON AND CO.'S LIVERPOOL WORLD • RENOWNED ENGLISH LEVER WATCHES. STEWART DAWSON, AND CO. have pleasure in announcing to their many Customers and the public in general that they have opened a Branch Establishment in Auckland, at 195, Queen-street, for the sale of their unrivalled Kepi err Lever Watches, which will enable all to secure a watch of the highest quality at ie-a than half the prices charged throughout New Zealand, The extraordinary merits of Stewart Dawson and Co.’s Liverpool English Levers are too well known through the whole of New Zealand, as well as from east to west of the ')ld Country, that comment litre is uuneceaary Suffice it to say that their perfection m excellence and value have given S. D. and Co. a patronage never equalled in the history of watch-makiug. Only actual seeing can convince you of tha marvellous value we otter, ORDER EARLY. ORDER EARLY. Please Note. —The following prices include duty paid by us. Every watch, quality considered, cannot be bought Retail uudtr Double the Prices, A £7 10s GENT’S ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING LEVER FOR £3 15s. Tho most perfect English Hunting Lovers in tho world, in three sizes—small, medium, and large. Every watch manufactured entirely in our own workshops. These watches aro specially adapted for bush work, squatters miners, &c., as they will stand the hardest wear ; send for one of theso watches and compare it with what retail dealers call their finest English Hunters at from £7 to £B, and you will at once declare oura to bo the better watch. A £lO 10s ENGLISH KEYLESS HUNTING SILVER LEVER FOR £5 15s. STEWART DAWSON & CO.’S Superb Keyless Hunting Lovers, a triumph of utility and convenience, a watch that is also perfectly air-tight, dust-tight, and damp-tight, keeping the works perfectly clean. Unequalled at Ten Guineas, oar direct cash price to customers being less than the actual wholesale price to the trado. Made iu two aizos—small au<J medium, PRICK, £5 15s. POSITIVELY RET AH VALUE EOR TEN GUINEAS. Also, same watch in open face, price £llsa, A £l2 12s ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING CHRONOGRAPH FOE £0 15s. Each watch a model of perfection ; finest J-plato movement, full jewelled in rubies, real chronometer expansion balance, decimal dial, centre seconds, and outside atop ; each timed to dead beat in positions, to go exactly tho same in extreme heat or cold. Notwithstanding the matchless perfection of this watch, wo positively sell it at a less price than retailers charge for ordinary inferior made watches, PRICE £6 15a. FULL RETAIL VALUE EOR TWELVE GUINEAS. Also, same watch in open face, price £5 15s. A £7 10s LADIES’ ENGLISH HUNTING LEVER FOK £3 15s. EVERY WATCH A WORK OF ART elegapt iu shape, chaste in design, of sterling English workmanship, watches that with fait usage will last a lifetime. We ask you to observe that wo supply our magnificent English Lavers at a far less price than often charged for common foreign watches. Price, in Hunting Cases, £3 15s; in open face, £3 6a ; practically saving,to each purchaser from £3 to £4. A £4 HUNTING DEFIANCE WATCH FOR £1 15s. None should hesitato to send fvV ouo of those Watches, truly named “ DEFLTNCE,” if only to seo tho perfection that can bo attained by a firm whose enterprise and energy have revolutionised the watch trade of Europe. Also open-face crystal front, £1 7s fid ; 11 sterling silver cases. S. D. & Co.’s LADIES’ AND GENTS MAGNIFICENT ENGLISH GOLD LEVERS are truly marvellous value. Wo sell our Ladies' Gold Open-faced Levers at £7 15s, better watches than sold retail anywhere at £ll 15s ; Hunters' ditto, at £lO 15s, positive value for £ls 16a ; Open-face Keyless, at £lO 16s; and Hunters at £l2 355, nowhere equalled under £2O, Theso are facta beyond dispute. Gents’ Open-face, £lO 15s ; Hunting, £l4 15s; Keyless Open-face, £l4 15s; Hunters’, £l6 15b—each watch saving to the purchaser from £5 to £lO. Stewakt, Dawson, and Go’s. English Gold Three-quarter plate Chronographs should be seen by every geutlemau who contemplates buying a Gold Watch. The finest, handsomest, best, moat modern, and greatest value in tho world. ADVANTAGES TO CUSTOMERS AND CONDITIONS OF SAM. First,—Our gigantic resources of manufactuiing, through our complete and efficient factory organisation, and our universal cash sales, enable ns to supply each watch at less than halt the usual retail price. Second.—Each customer is supplied with his watch on a week's free approval and trial Tho full amount paid is returned to anyone dissatisfied. Third.—Every purchaser secures the most perfect English Lever ever made, manufactured entirely in our own workshops, in Liverpool, England, unequalled for beauty, for strength, for durability, or as a time-keeper. The perfection of improved mechanism throughout, in solidity of construction, and lasting qualities, each customer receives an English Lever that will wear oat three foreign or American-made Watches one after another, QA AAA TESTIMONIALS have been OV/jvl/v received during the bet few years from wearers in all parts of the world proving our Watches to be without equal The following is a Specimen Testiraonia just received:—“To Stewakt Dawson and Co., Auckland. —Thames, 18th April, 1884, Dear Sir, —Seeing that you arc iu Auckland, I write to say that nearly five years ago I sent to Liverpool for one of your English Silver Levers as advertised for £3 15-. I duly received the wateh, and my son (William Thorburn) has carried it every day since then at his work, mining, bush work, riding, &c., and it has never cost him one penny for repairs. The watch is a splendid timekeeper, and would cost in Auckland at least ten guineas. My eon could have sold tho watch a score of times, for double the price that it cost him, but would not part with it on any account. I may also say that I know several here who have sent for yonr watches, and they have given the greatest satisfaction. You are at perfect liberty to publish this if you wish, as lam well known here.—l remain yours truly, W3I. LANG THORBURN, Engineer, Tararu, Thames.” INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDERING WATCHES. Wellington Times. Cut this Square out, and forward it with P.O. Order, payable to Stewart Dawson and Co,, Auckland, or cash in registered ’etter ; add 2s fid to the price o tac.li watch, to pay post and registration, when we will forward watch selected and written guarantee by first return of post. (Signed) Stewakt Dawson AND CO. Kot.—All Letters and Orders to be addressed— STEWART DAWSON AND CO., 195, QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND. Write for Illustrated Watch Pamphlet —most interesting to all; 60 pages of wonderful testimonials, British and Colonial, Illustrations of Gold and Silver Alberts at wholesale English prices. With this wil) also besenta new thirty-two pago brochure, entitled “The English Lever, rra Invention and Development,” with an essay ou S. D. and Co.’s system of business, which should be read by every intending watch-buyer. Tie •wo pamphlets gratia for the postage -Id in stamps.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7280, 24 September 1884, Page 4
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