Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — An Accurate Time-Piece. [ARTICLE]

An Accurate Time-Piece.

* * * While on the subject of Waltham watches, we may mention that we have seen a letter from the Commander of the Gordon Castle (Castle line of Steam Packets), who was fortunate enough to save life at sea, and who for his gallant conduct was presented in September last with a Gold Keyless Waltham watch by the President of the United States, on behalf of the London Local Marine Board. Referring to this Presentation Watch, he says: “When I left London the watch was six seconds fast, and on my arrival at Singapore, it was only three seconds slow, a most extraordinary performance for a watch, as I carried it on my person the whole time. I compared it every day with my chronometers on my passage out, and it seldom or ever differed one second from them; in fact, I found it almost, if not as good as my chronometers, which is a great deal to say for a watch carried hbout and subject to all kinds of jolts.’* —London, England, The Watchmaker, Jeweler and Silversmith, Feb. 1883.