Show WATe WATCH THE T SIZE SIZ OF OP A NICKEL American Watchmakers Latest Tri Tn Triumph Midget Keeps Good Time New York Sun The smallest watch yet turned out in Inthis inthis this his country c has Just been put on Ute tile market although few are on sale yet yet The new watch Is the size of a piece The smallest watch which American watch factories had hitherto succeeded in n making had boen b en as big as a quarter so the new watch Is looked upon as marking a a distinct advance a d vance in the in industry 1 In this country countr where watches have lave only been beeh made for a little more than halt half h lt a a century Watchmakers I also regard it as a indicating that the time Is not far distant when Americans will wIn soon overtake the old worlds words I watchmakers akers the Swiss in turning out ou t watches of minute size The Swiss still stU make a watch smaller I than han the Americans but the watch just put on the market here by the two I largest argest concerns in this country count will wIl have the advantage over the the Swiss watch that tat all aU the other watches made here have possessed namely that of being being turned out in ii quantity Under American methods day daily output in one factory is 2500 a aday aday aday 1 The new watch is the result of ot months of patient endeavor by the watchmakers and machinists machinist For Forever every ever new sized watch watch designed new machines have to be made and as the te size of or the te watch is reduced by so much muc more must these machines be made more delicate The smaller a watch the harder it i is isto Isto Isto to make To make a watch half the size of another is just twice as a hard When Wen i it is considered that in every eve watch there are parts it i will wi be seen seeP what a task the watch machine ex cx experts e pets had in designing machines to tomake tomake tomake make the parts for the new watch many of f them almost infinitesimal in size sze When the machines are made the te new watch can cn be turned out as fast as the larger sizes In watch making in the big factories another factor has to be considered in inthe inthe inthe the production of a new watch that is smaller than those tUt oed out before this is the ability of the hands em employed employed to handle handl the parts part Half Hal the te work of in the big fac factories factories tories torie is in educating the te hands to handle the parts It I takes months to do this with every ever new watch that th t is designed and therein theren has ha lain the dim difficulty culty CulY of imitating the Swiss in the manufacture manufacture of ot small watches by American methods In Switzerland the work is let Jet out by bythe bythe bythe the piece A workman will wU make Just one part of a watch as a his father faher did before him In the biggest American Ameri n factory that of the Waltham com coin company company pany a watch is turned out of the labor of employees It I has been the boast of ot the Swiss that their tiny tny watches could never be made by machinery machner and It i has been just as ns much the endeavor of Amen Ameri American AerI can watchmakers watchmaker to show their Swiss rivals how sadly they underrated American inventive genius That hat Is i why wh the te new watch has been hailed with wit so much pride The jewelers jeweler say that there tere will wl al always always always ways be a demand for a watch smaller maler than the tle last one people could obtain so 50 before long long a still sUl smaller watch may appear The demand for foi foJ an Amer American AmerIcan Amerlean ican lean watch smaller than that of the 2 cent piece size has ha long been felt feI especially since the custom came in of wearing chatelaine watches The new watch Is designed for this and also to meet the tle demand of a 3 new custom lately come into vogue with wih women that of or wearing a watch on a chain cain around the te neck like a locket Jo ket Despite Depie its is diminutive size the new watch atch keeps as good time as the larger ones and better beter time the American watchmakers say sa than tan do the te minia miniature mInIature ture watches of ot the Swiss But the Swiss still hold the palm for putting the works of ofa a watch into the smallest compass compas The smallest watch made in any number by the Swiss wiss is what is known In watch nomenclature as the te watch watch It I is only the size of a mans fingernail This watch is Imported here and Is often put in pocketbooks and leather goods The Swiss turn out even smaller watches than that tat but they are re no regarded regarded here her as freak reak watches One of them thes themis is a watch made to be set In a aring arIng aring ring the size of ot the ordinary seal ring Fairly good go d time has ha been kept by one Another watch made madey by y the th Swiss watchmakers akers isa Is a watch to go go in the buttonhole but it i 3 t is uk js wonderful as the ring watch atch watch Though the as s small smal the works work hId hidden under f the tb lapel of ot the te coat are larger L |