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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5035, 23 June 1884, Page 4

Busmeas NotioPfi. English Watches! English Vy atches. SPECIAL AND IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. Stewart Ij>awson & C^o.'S, LIVERPOOL, World-Rexowned English Lever Watches First in Qualitt I First in Workmanship 1 First in Utility and Durabimtt 1 Matchless in Design and Finish, Direct from S.D. and Co.'s Factory, in Liverpool. LESS THAN HALF COLONIAL PRICES. OTEWART DAWSON & CO. have much >3 plonsure in announcing that on account of the Largo Patronage extended to them from all parts of New Zealand to their Head Establishment in England, and to their Australian Branch in Sydney, for their UNRIVALLED ENGLISH LEVER WATCHES, they have opened a Branch Estahlishment for New Zealand at 195, QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND, For th.i sale of their celehrated Watches, which will enable all settlers in New Zealand to purchase in their own Colony an English Lever Watch of the very hest quality ut less than half the Colonial retail prices, thus giving customers, new and old, and every intending w.itch hnyer, an opportunity nover before extended to New Zealand. The extraordinary merit of Stewart Dawson and Co.'s Liverpool English Levers are so well known through the whole' of New Zealand, as well as from east to west of the Old Country, that comment here is unnecessary. Suffice it to say that their perfection ia excellence and value has given S. D. and Co. a patronage never equalled in the history of watch-making. NOTICE. Every purchaser buying from us saves three profits— the London wholesale dea ler's profit, the Colonial wholesale dealer's profit, and the Colonial retail dealer's profit ; iv all over one hundred per cent. Over £30,000 of onr Celehrated English Levers was sold Inst year from onr Australian Branch, Sydney, sufficient proof of their value and matchless quality. ORDER EARLY. ORDER EARLY. Please Note.— The following prices include Duty paid by us. Every Watch, quality considered, cannot be bought Retail under Double the Prices. A £7 10 3 GENT'S ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING LEVER FQR £3 15 s The most perfect English Hunting Leverwin the world. Every watch manufactured entirely in our own workshops. These watches are specially adapted for bush work,, squatters, miners, &c., as they will stand the hardest wear j send for one of these watuhes and compare it with what retail dealers call their -finest English Hunters at from £7 to £8, anA you will at once declara ours to be the better watch. In open face, £3 5s ; ditto crystal unbreakable front, £3 11s ; positively worth £6 10s. A £10 10 s ENGLISH KEYLESS HUNTING SILVER LEVER roR £5 15 s STEWART DAWSON & CO.'S Superb Keyless Hnnting Levers, a triumph of utility and convenience, a watch that is nlso perfectly air-tight, dusttight and damp-tight, keeping the works perfectly clean. Unequalled at Ten Guineas, our direct cash price to customers being less than the actual wholesale price to tho trade. Made in two sizes, small aiid medium. PRICE, £5 155. POSITIVELY RETAIL VALUE FOR TEN GUINEAS. Also, same watoh in open face, price &i 15s. A £12 12 s ENGLISH SILVER HUNTING CHRONOGRAPH FOR £6 15 s Each watch a model of perfection ; finest f-plate movement, full jewelled in rabies, 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. Notwithstanding the matchless perfection of this watch, we positively sell it at a less price than retailers charge for ordinary inferior made watches. PRICE £6 15s. FULL RETAIL VALUE FOB 12 GUINEAS. Also, same watoh, in open face, price £5 155. A £7 10 3 LADIES' ENGLISH HUNTING IiEVER FOR £3 15 S EVERY WATCH A WORK OF ART, elegant in shape, chaste in design, of sterling English workmanship, watches tbnt with fair usage will hist a lifetime. We ask you to observe that we supply our magnificent English Levers at a far less price than often charged for common foreign.watohes. PRICE IN HUNTING CASES, £3 15s ; IN OPEN FACE, £3 ss ; practically saving to each purchaser from £3 to £4. A £4 HUNTING DEFIANCE] WATCH rOE £lls s - None should hesitate to send for one of these Watches, truly named "DEFIANCE," if only to see the perfection that can be attained by a firm whose enterprise and energy have revolutionised the Watch trade of Europe. Also open-face crystal front, £1 7s 6d ; all sterling silver coses. S. D. & Co.'s LADIES' AND GENT'S 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 j Hunters ditto, at £10 15s, positive value for £15 15s ; Openface Keyless at £10 153 ; and Hunters at £12 15s, nowhere equalled under £20. These are facts beyond dispute. Geuta' Open-face, £10 15s ; Hunters, £13 5s ; Keyless o]>en-faoe, £14 15s ; Hunters, £16 15s— each watch Rnving to the purchaser from £5 to £10. STEWART DAWSON & CO.'S English Gold J-plate Chronographs should be seen by every gentleman who contemplates buying a Gold Watch. Tho finest, handsomest, best, most modern, and greatest valuein the world. ADVANTAGES TO CUSTOMERS, AND CONDITIONS OF SALE. Second— Each customer is supplied with his watch on a week's free approval and trial. The full amount paid is returned to anyone dissatisfied. Third— Every purchaser saenres the most perfeot English Lever ever made, manufactured entirely in our own workshops, nneq rolled for beauty, for strength, for durability, or as a timekeeper. The perfection of improved mechanism throughout, in solidity of construction and lasting qualities, each customer receiving an English Lover that will wear out three foreign or American made Watohea one after another. 30,000 Testimonials have been received during the last few years from wearerg in all parts of the world, proving our Watcheo to be without equal. The following is a Specimen Testimonial just received :— " To STEWART DAWSON & CO., Auckland. " Tiiamts. 18th April, 1884. " Dear Sir,— Seeing that you are in Auckland, I write to say that nearly five years ago I sent to Liverpool for one of yoac English Silver Levers as advertised for £3 15s. I Awly received the watch, and my son (William Thorburn) has carried 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 timekeeper, and would co*t in Auckland at least Ten Guineas. My son could have sold tho watch a score of tim»s, for double the price that it cost him, but would not part with it on any account. I may also say that I know several here who have sent for your watches, :md they have given the greatest satisfaction. Von are at perfect liberty to publish this if you wish, as I am well known here. " I remain, yonrs truly, " WM. LANG THORBURN, " Engineer, Tararu, Thames." INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDERING WATCHES. CHRISTCHURCH "STAB." Cut this Coupon out. n.ivl forward, with P.O. Order, payable to Suswurt Dawson and Co., Auckland, or ca9h iv n^tered letter. 2e 6d must be added to the price of each watch to pay •post and registration. We guarantee to forwaixl you the Watch selected by first return of pqston the conditions stated. (SSgned) STEW-ART DAWSON k CO. Note— All Letters and Orders to be addressed ©tewaet Dawson & (Jo., 185, QUEEN STBEET, AUCKLAND. Write for Illustrated Watch Pamphlet, moßt interesting to all ; 60 pogeaot wouderfulTestimonials. British and Colonial, illustrations of Gold and Silver Alberts at wholesale English prices. With this will also be sent a. bow 32-page brochure, entitled— ' "THE ENGLISH LEVEB: ITS INVENTION AND DEVELOPMENT," Wt fh an Essay on S. D.|and Co,'<» system of business, which should bej read by every intending watch Ifflyer, Tho tyro Pamphlets 'gratis for the F°sfcjstfV it} jp stamps. * ' ?M0 251