A DUCAL OPINION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8785, 22 May 1890, Page 4

A DUCAL OPINION.

A leading jeweller, in speaking of the very handsome oat of the Waterbury Watch Company which appeared in a recent issue of tho Review, gave your correspondent the following little incident illustrating the popularity and high estimation in whioh the American lowpriced watches ure held in England. Ho says: "While in England last summer I happened to be in the vicinity of Eaton Hal), Chester, one of (he country seats of the Duke of Westminster, where there was a meeting of yeomanry and some 200,000 people assembled. All were indulging in garr.es 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, aad that he had better look out for his watoh. The Duke laughingly replied that he was grateful for the warning, as he bad a watch which he valued highly , although of small oost and that he would hate to part with it, at the eamo time pulling out a handsome Waterbury. The maetfcf of the hounds informed me that be wore tbia watoh ia preference to all others." This endorsement from one of the nobility whose j income is 700,000d 0l per annum ia not bad for an American product, Thii is authentic, and is not aa advertiaomenti— Jeweller*' Eeview. JOHN AVERY N9W Plymouth.,