Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1914 — Our Watches in Germany. [ARTICLE]

Our Watches in Germany.

Germany’s importations of American watches are growing, that country manufacturing very few watches of high grade. The lever-escapement style is supplanting the cylinder watch throughout Europe, although most of the watches for women and workmen are still of the cylinder type. American gold-filled cases have an increasing sale, and American manufacturers are finding a market in Germany for their watch movemeats In connection with these cases. In Germany gold cases of any fineness may be sold, but when they are of 14 or 18 carats fineness this must be indicated In thousandths, 14 carats being indicated by the decimal .585; 18 carats by .750. The Imperial German Crown and the Bun stamps must also appear on such gold cases. Any gold case less than 14 carats in fineness must not be stamped In any way to Indicate the fineness of the gold employed, and the penalty for violating the law is severe. American gold-filled cases are now competing advantageously with cases of an eight-carat quality, which are in considerable demand among the prosper, ous but careful members of the lower middle class in Germany.