GOOD NEWS FOR ALL. TIME AND TIMEKEEPERS. THE ENGLISH LEVER, st of all Timekeepers. gTEWART RAWSON QO.’S (LIVERPOOL) OFLJLLdZH’IOIT ENGLISH LEVER WATCHES. A £7 10g. GENT’S ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING LEVER For £3 15s. The Liverpool Champion English Lever This watch is the finest quality full-plate English Lever that money can buy, selling in hundreds. Manufactured entirely in our own workshops, they are unequalled for beauty, for strength, or as time-keepers; will suit every occupation, and owing to their great strength and durability, are specially adapted for bush work, squatters, miners, Ac., as they will stand the hardest wear. All have closefitting, full-capped movements, to prevent dust entering the works, patent solid pillar plates, frames, wheels, and pinions, and patent safety hairsprings for riding, &c. The escapements adjusted to the perfection of performance, each action jewelled in hard ruby, producing a perfect dead beat; the dials of finest white hard enamel, gold hands, and sunk seconds. The gilding and steel work throughout finished to the highest degree; maintaining power applied to each watch, the case perfectly dust-tight—very strong sterling silver, Government Hall marked. Each watch complete, a masterpiece of the best workmanship that English talent, capital, and ingenuity can produce, enlisting the praises of every wearer. One of these watches will wear out three American or foreign-made watches one after another. This magnificent and matchless English Hunting Lever we supply to customers for £3 15s, and in quality and time-keeping defy the world to beat it at ten guineas. Notice also the same watch as above, with three pair extra jewels and real chronometer cut compensated balance. Keeping time to a second in all variations of temperature. Price only £4 15s. You cannot buy one as good as this under £l2. A £lO 10 s. ENGLISH KEYLESS HUNTING SILVER LEVER For £5 15s. Stewart Dawson and Co.’s Superb Keyless Hunting Levers, a triumph of utility and convenience, winding and setting hands by simply turning a nicely proportioned nob at the stem of the watch, entirely dispensing with the trouble of carrying a loose key, and a certain preventative of one-half the incidental causes for repairs — a watch that is also perfectly air-tight,dust-tight, and damp-tight, keeping the works perfectly clean—may be worn for years without cleaning; the convenience derived by all who wear them is pronounced incalculable. In quality we positively assert that there is not a keyless watch sold under 12 guineas to equal these. They are made in two sizes, small and medium. Price £5 15e. Worth Ten (Guineas. Also, same watch in open face, pritee £4 15s. A £L2 12s ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING CHRONO- - GRAPH For £6 15s. Stewart Dawson & Co.’s Magnificent English Chronograph Watches. Each watch a model of perfection; finest }-plate movement, full jewelled in rubies, real chronometer expansion balance, decimal dial, centre seconds, and outside stop; each timed to dead beat in positions, to go exactly the same in extreme heat or cold. The wealthiest gentleman in the land, or the highest official in tue State, need not desire a
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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 6, 11 April 1885, Page 8
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