The bulletin

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Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
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Vol. 10 No. 501 (21 Sep 1889)
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The Bulletin  

Saturday, September 21, 1889.  

AMERICAN WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY.  

At the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, 1888-9, the American Waltham  

Company obtained the FIRST AWARD for their New Non-Magnetic Watches.  

The following Report is hy the Chairman of the Jury on Horology at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, wherein the First Award for the Waltham Non-Magnetic Watches is recommended:  

“WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY.— Non-Magnetic Watches.— Having obtained further information and the results of some good practical tests of some non-magnetio watches of is  

tiiVih have now the honour to report further upon it Question having arisen as to similarity of the balance of this watch and that of Palliard s, the exhibitors obtained the opinion ’  

tacwn as iar forwarded to me report from Captain Joseph, who carried one of these watches with him while occupied about the dynamos in the electric lighting department. This  

ruined an ordinary movement, but its rate about ege watches from Mr. R. 0. Fletcher, engineer in charge of electric light instalment, the result of which shows that these watches,  

after belaid of the large dynamos at work for one or two minutes, and afterwards regulated-'and then exposed again for twenty or tiventy-five minutes, did not appreciably alter their rates. Mr.  

Fletcher was so pleased with the results that he purchased one of the watches for his own use among electric lighting machinery. a-iven FIRST AWARD for their NEW  

“In consideration of these reports in connection with former trials and time tests, recommend that the Waltham Company he given FIRST AWARD lor tnexr xnjlw  

non-magnetio watch. L'T J/UTJT U.S.. Chairman.”  

The following is List of Awards gained by the American Waltham Watches at International Exhibitions  

nUSBLPBU, 1575, Four Prise Medals; PARIS, IS7S, Soli Medal; SYDNEY, 1530, Soli Medal, with Two Special ani Pour First Prises MELBOURNE, 1331, Two Soli Medals;  

ORLEANS, 1080, Fire Prise Moialo; INVENTIONS EXHIBITION, LONDON, 1555, Soli Medal; MELBOURNE CENTENNIAL INHIBITION, 1505-3, First Awari, Non-Magnetic Wes  

Constituting record unequalled by any Exhibitors in Horology.  

Extract from the London Hokological Journal, July, 1889:—“The Great Northern Railway Company have ordered Twenty NON-MAGNETIC Watches of the American Waltham Watch  

Company for the use of the guards on the Scotch express.”  

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