WALTHAM WATCHES 



OBSERVATIONS BY GREAT OBSERVERS 



From Autobiography of 



HERBERT SPENCER 



Vol. II, Page 167, American Edition. 



"The presentation watch named in 

 Prof. Youman's letter was one of those 

 manufactured by the Waltham Watch 

 Company. ... It has proved a great 

 treasure as a timekeeper and has excited 

 the envy of friends who have known its 

 performances." 



"I find in a letter written in December, 1880, after the watch 

 had been in my possession fourteen years, a paragraph respecting 

 it which may fitly be quoted : 'I have several times intended to 

 tell you how wonderfully well my American watch has been 

 going of late. It has always gone with perfect regularity, either 

 losing a little or gaining a little; but of course it has been difficult 

 to adjust its regulator to such a nicety as that 

 there should be scarcely any loss or gain. 

 This, however, was done last summer. It 

 was set by the chronometer-maker in July, 

 and it is now half a minute too slow, never 

 having varied more than half a minute from 

 the true time since the period when it was set. 

 This is wonderful going. As the Admiral says, 

 one might very well navigate a ship by it.' " 



(In 1890 it went with equal nicety; lost 42 

 seconds in half a year.) 



RALPH WALDO EMERSON, the Concord Philosopher, 



used the Waltham Watch as a type of the highest development 

 when he wrote in one of his Essays on Eloquence, in speaking of 

 a man whom he described as a leader and a Godsend to his com- 

 munity : "He is put together like a Waltham Watch " 



WALTHAM WATCH CO., WALTHAM, MASS. 



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