Our Continental Competitors.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6886, 23 June 1890, Page 4

Our Continental Competitors.

» Some time since an attempt was made ' to discredit the Waterbury Watch in the ! regions of the German Empire; but the - result is likely to be Tery beneficial to the \ ■Waterbury, judging from the following ' account which appeared in the April ' number of the Jewellbrs' Journal, * Chicago, HI. : — " The Allq. Joubnal dbb i Uhbm gives a detailed account of the suit ■ brought by the agent of the Waterbury j Watches for Germany against a Cologne : watchmaker, who published an article in - the Alls. Auzeiqeb pub Mech, in which J he abused the Waterbury Watch as being ] a fraud and a snare. The defendant per- ! eisted in comparing it with high-priced and ' exact timekeepers, and brought numerous ' witnesses to prove that it did not always ! keep as good time nor last as long ■ us a lOOdol watch. Hia concluding argument was that watches turned out ' at the rate of two a minute must neces- ( sarily be perfect frauds. Of course tho Court, being a German Court, decided - against the American watch, and the ' defendant was acquitted. The same - number of the Journal describes and ( illustrates the Waterbury watch ia all its details, thus giving it a three-page adver- ' tisement free. With our German friends ' across the Atlantic we fear it is quite like people the world over; those who cry ; fraud first and loudest are generally up ■ to irregular or fraudulent practicea themselves. English and American exporters « meet in every clime goods that look < and merchants that speak German, whose 1 ♦Sheffield cutlery' and whose 'American 1 tools,' all come from the ' Kaiser ' empire, 1 The Waterbury is all that it claims to be, < and, like wine, it is constantly improving with, age, and not a fraud by any meana." < ! The WATERBUEY, despite the attempts i to prejudice it made by interested parties 1 swayed by motives of envy, malice, hatred, 1 and all uncharitableness, still remains first I favourite with the intelligent public, who » recognise in it all the merits claimed fox 1

it. It is a strong, handsome, well-finished and serviceable timekeeper, which, unlike its host of imitators and would-be competitors, should it meet with an accident, may be efficiently repaired at small cost at any of the Company's various repair dep6ts throughout the Colonies. Price, Series E 13s 6d, series Jor L 20s. To be obtained from any respectable storekeeper throughout the Colony. - >