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The bulletin

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NX 252
Created/Published
Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
Issue
Vol. 10 No. 509 (16 Nov 1889)
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The Bulletin  

[Saturday, November 16, 1889.  

AMERICAN WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY.  

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

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-magnetic watches of this  

exhibit, have now the honour to report further upon it. Question having arisen as to similarity of the balance of this watch and that of Palhard’s, the exhibitors obtained the opinion of an expert,  

who examined one of the Waltham Non-Magnetic Watches, as well as one of Eotheranrs Watches with Palliard’s non-magnetic balance. This expert (Mr. Kahan) reports as follows have received  

from Messrs. Robert Beeston and Co., agents for the Waltham Watch Company, non-magnetic watch, for the purpose of reporting to you whether the same is identical with those known as Palliard  

anTco’s haw examined watch No. 3,292,923, lever escapement, keyless (Riverside). The balance (bi-metallic compensated) hair-sprmg (Breguet), lever, pallets, and ruby roller are made of such  

metals that are not liable to become magnetised, and consequently these watches are well adapted for the purpose for which they are made. The balance and hairspring are not identical with those  

“ The exhibitors have also 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  

report is as follows At first the watch had gaining rate of 30 seconds per day. After wearing it for some days, and finding this rate fairly constant the watch was used in timing tests of dynamos.  

The rate then changed to 90 seconds per day, losing. then regulated it so as to bring it to gaming rate of 20 seconds per day. This being constant for six days the watch was again used in the  

dynamo-room, and without affecting the rate. have worn it constantly, and it has been brought several times in contact with dynamos at work, having magnetic field which think would have  

ruined an ordinary movement; but its rate still remains gaining about 20 seconds per day. ’  

“I have also report of series of careful experiments with one of these watches Irom Mr, R. C. Fletcher, engineer in charge of electric light instalment, the result of which shows that these watches,  

after being laid on the poles of the large dynamos at work for one or two minutes, and afterwards regulated and then exposed again for twenty or twenty-live minutes, did not appreciably alter then rates. r.  

Fletcher was so pleased with the results that he purchased one of the watches for his own use among electric lighting machinery.  

“In consideration of these reports in connection with former trials and time tests, recommend that the Waltham Company be given FIRST AWARD for their NEW  

NON-MAGNCTIC WATCH. J- ELLERY, RA., CHAIRMAN.”  

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

PHILADELPHIA, IS7S, Pour Prise Medals; PARIS, 1878, field Medal; SYDHiT, 1830, field Medal, with Two Special and Pour First Prises; MELBOURNE, 1831, Two field Medale;  

ORLEANS, 1888, Five Prise Medals; MOTIONS EXHIBITION LONDON. 1883, field Medal; MELBOURNE CENTENNIAL IXHIBITI,IBBO-9, First Award, Non-MapetieWatches  

Constituting record unequalled by any Exhibitors in Horology. »  

Extract from the London Hußological 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.’  

AMERICAN WALTHAM V/ATCHES.-OOV3RNMENT RAILWAYS’ CONTRACT.  

TENDERS hivincr been called for the supply of WATCHES for use upon the New South Wales Government Railways for the ensuing year, the preference was given to the celebrated  

RATTW VY 'GUARDS’ VTCHES of the AMERICAN WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY. This is the Ninth Consecutive Year during which the WALTHAM WATCHES have been  

Siobbii by New  

South Wales Victoria and South Australia, and also upon all the Great Railway Lines of the United Kingdom and the Indian State Railways.  

AMERICAN WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY,  

Sole Australian Agency: WALTHAM BUILDINGS, BOND STREET, SYDNEY.  

rrHE COLONIAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY L.IMITEI).  

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Policies issued under the Ordinary, Modified Tontine and Mortuary Dividexici Systems.  

BONUS YEAR.-—Books will be closed on 31st December, 1889, and the Quinquennial Investigation at once entered upon with view to Distribution of Bonus.  

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