Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Perfected American Watch
Splendid investment. It gives better return and depreciates less in proportion than any other article of personal wear or use. Like the human heart, it works unremittingly. If treated with common care and cleaned as occasion requires, it will, excepting accidents, outlive its wearer. Though the case be thinner at the end of twenty years than it was when new, the movement, if originally good, will be as vigorous and exact as the day it left the factory. Moreover, it never goes out of vogue. How much is an overcoat that cost you forty dol lars worth after five years' wear, com pared with a watch that cost the same We are speaking now about the waltham watch, and to the person who is not carrying one. Eleven mil lion people have them. To such the watches have told their own story. Fifty years ago all watches were made in Eu ro p e, chie?y in Switzerland.
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