The Downfall o? a Humbug, The day of the "cheap Swiss Watch" has gone by. It is ill-fitting, roughly made, not interchangeable, and when once out of order, rarely, if ever, susceptible of satisfactory repairs. The country has been flooded with those implements, but, gigantio as this importation has been, they must yield to the superior merits of American watches. The very first watch produced by the Waterbury Watch Company sounded the death knell of the Swiss atrocities. In 1889 the battle had been won, and .the days of unreliable timepieces practically numbered. The modern David of American genius and accuracy has, by force of intrinsic merit* cause* the downfall of the' Swiss Philistine of cheap horologies! humbug,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2058, 3 August 1893, Page 35
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118Page 35 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Witness, Issue 2058, 3 August 1893, Page 35
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