A DUOAL OPINION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8784, 21 May 1890, Page 4

A DUCAL OPINION.

A leading jeweller, in speaking of the very handsome out of the Waterbury Watch Company which appeared in a recunt issue of the Review, gave your correspondent the following little incident illustrating the popularity and high estimation in which tbs American lowpriced watches are held in England. Ho says: "While in England last summer I happened to be in the vicinity of Eaton Hall, Chester, one of the country seats of the Duke of Westminster, where there was a meeting of yeomanry and some 200,000 people assembled. All were indulging in ganr.eß and festivities, the Duke being present in person and mingling freely with the others, when bis Grace was accosted by one of his friends, who remarked that there were reported to be several pickpockets present, and that he had better look out for bio watch. The Duke laughingly replied that he was grateful for the warning, as he had a watch whioh he valued highly , although of small cost and that he would hate to part with it, at the same time pulling out a handsome Waterbury. The master of the hounds informed me that he wore this watoh in preferenoe to all others." This endorsement from one of the nobility whose inoome is 700,000d0l per annum is not bad for an American product. This is authentic, and is not an advertisement,— Jevnlkn' Review, JOHN AVERT* tfew Plymouth,