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Watchmakers ENGLISH WATCHE3 ! ENGLISH WATCHES'. SPECIAL AND IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! STEWART DAWSOH AND CO.'s LIVERPOOL WORLD-RENOWNED ENGLISH LEVER WATCHES. STEWART DAWSON AND CO., of Liverpool, have pleasure m announcing ' to their many Customers and tho Public m i general that they have opened a Braneli Establishment m Auckland, for the sale of tlieii' unrivalled English Lever Wateheß, which will enable all to secure a Watch of tho highest quality at less than half the prices charged throughout New Zealand. The extraordinary merits of Stewart Dawson and Co.'s Liverpool English Levers aro too well known through the whole of Now Zealand, as well as from east to west of the Old Country, that comment here is unnecessary. Sulfico it to say that their perfection m excellence and value have given S. I), and Co. a patronage nover equalled m the history of watch-making. Only actual seeing cnn convince you of the marvellous value we offer. ORDER EARLY. ORDER EARLY. Pr.KASE Note. — The following prices include duty paid by us. Every watch, quality considered, cannot be bought Retail under Double the Prices. • A £7 10s GENTS' ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING LEVER FOR £3 15s. Tho most perfect English Hunting Lovers m tho world. Every watch manufactured entirely m our own workshops. These watches are specially adapted for bush work, squatters, miners, &c, as they will stand the hardest woar. Send for one of these watches and compare it with what retail dealers call their finest English Hunters nt from £7 to £8, and you will at once declare ours to be the better watch. Selling m hundreds. A £10 10s ENGLISH KKYLESS HUNTING SILVER LEVER FOR £5158. STEWART DAWSON & CO.'S Superb Keyless Hunting Levers, a triumph of utility and convenience, a watch that is also perfectly air-tight, dust-tight and damp-tight, keeping tho works perfectly clean. Unequalled at Ten Guineas, our direct cash price to customers being less than the actual wholesale prico to the trado. Made m two sizes— small and medium. PRICE £5 Ins. POSITIVELY RETAIL VALUE FOR TEN GUINEAS. Also, same watch m open face, price £4 16a. A £12 12s ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING CHRONOGRAPH FOR £G 15s. Each watch a model of perfection ; fine9t J-plate movement, full jewelled m rubies, real chronometer expansion balance, decimal dial, centre seconds, and outside Btop ; each timed to dead beat m positions, to go exactly the same m extreme heat or cold. Notwithstanding tho matchless perfection of this watch, wo positively soil it at a less price than retailors charge for ordinary inferior made watches. PRICE £6 15s FULL RETAIL VALUE FOR TWELVE GUINEAS. Also, same watch m open face, price £5 15b. A £7 10s LADIES' ENGLISH HUNTING LEVER FOR £3 15s. EVERY WATCH A. WORK OF ART, elegant m shape., chaste m design, of sterling English workmanship, watches that with fair usage will last a lifetime. We ask you to obsorve that we supply our magnificent English Levem at a far less price than often charged for common foreign watches. Price, m Hunting Cases, £3 15s ; m open face, £3 5s ; practically saving to each purchaser from £3 to £4. A £4 HUNTING DEFIANCE WATCH FOR£I 15s. None should hesitate to send for one of these Watches, truly named " DEFIANCE," if only to see the perfection that can be nttained by a firm whose enterprise and energy huvo revolutionised the watch trade of Europe Also open-face crystal front, £1 7s Gd ; all sterling silver cases. S. D. & Co's LADIES' AND GENTS' MAGNIFICENT ENGLISH GOLD LEVERS are truly marvellous value. We sell our Ladies' Gold Open-faced Levers at £7 15s, better watches than sold retail anywhere, at £11 15s ; Hunters' ditto, at £10 15s, positive valuo for £15 15a ; Open-faco Keyless at £10 15s ; and Hunters at £12 15s, nowhere equalled under £20. Theso aro facts beyond dispute. Gents' Open-face, £10 15s ; Hunting, £14 15s ; Keyless Opeu-faco, £14 15s; Hunters', £16 15s — each watch saving to the purchaser from £5 to £10. Stewaut Dawson, and Cos. English Gold Three-quarter plate Chronographs should be seen by every gontlomau who contemplates buying a Gold Watch. Tho finest, handsomest, best, most modern, and greatest value m tho world. ADVANTAQBS TO CUSTOMBHB AND CONDITIONS OP BALK. First. — Our gigantic resources of manufacturing, through our complete and efficient factory organisation, and our universal cash sales, enable us to supply each watch at less than half tho usual retail prico. Second. — Each customor is supplied with his watch on a week's freo approval and trial. Tho full amount paid is returned to anyone dissatisfied. Third. — Every purchaser secures tho most perfect English Lever over made, manufactured entirely at our own workshops, m Liverpool, England, unequalled for beauty, for strength, for durability, or as a timokeeper. Tho perfection of improvod mechanism throughout, m solidity of construction, and lasting qualities, each, customer receiving an English Lover that will wear out three foreign or American-made watches one after another. 30,000 TESTIMONIALS have been received during tho last few years from wearers m all parts of tho world, proving our Watches to bo without equal. Tho following is a Specimen Testimonial just received :— " To Stkwaet Davson and Co., Auckland. — Thames, 18th April, 1884. De.ir Sir, — Seeing that you aro m Auckland, I write to say that nearly iivo years ago I Hont to Liverpool for one of your English Silv<r Levers as advertised for £3 15s. I duly received tho watch, and my eon (William Thorburn) has carriod it every day since then at his work, mining, bush work, riding, &c, and it has never cost him one penny for repairs. Tho watch is a splendid timokcopor, and would cost m Auckland at least ten guineas. My BOn could have sold the watch a score of times, for doublo the prico that it cost him, but would not part with it on any account. I may ako say that I know aovoral hero who havo sent for your watches, and they havo given tho greatest satisfaction. You aro at perfect liberty to publish this if you wish, as lam well known herd. — I romaiu yours truly, WM. LANG THORBURN, Engineer, Tararu, Thames." INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDERING WATCHES. ■TIMARU HEBA£D. Cut this Squnro out, and forward I it with P.O. Order, payable to S. P. and Co., Auckland, or Cash m registered letter ; odd 2a 6d to the prico of each watch, to pay pout and registration, when wo will forward .watch aolcotod and writ-ton Guarantee by first return of post. (Signed) Stewart Dawson and Co. Notk. — All letters ond Ordors to bo addreßSod : — STEWART DAWSON AMD CO., 196 QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND. Don't fail to write for Illustrated Watch Pamphlet, most interesting to all | CO pages of wonderful testimonials, Britiah and colonial, Illustrations of Gold and Silver Alberts at I wholesale English pricos. With this will also bo oent a new thirty-two page brochure, entitled, "Tns English Lbvkb, its Invention and Dbvhlopment," with an ceeay on S. D. and Co.'b system of business, which should bo road by every intending watchbuyer. The two pamphlets gratis for the pottage, 4d m »*«nj£i, r - ai 0477

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Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 3056, 10 July 1884, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 3056, 10 July 1884, Page 4

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