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Show I A first claBs American watch, well I kept, will laat thirty or forty years, or j eomelimes even longer, before the work wear out, but the average life of an ordinary or-dinary low priced American watch 1 ten years, and that of a Swiss watch ot tho Bame grade seven venrs. Tho length of life for a watch depends largely on the number of its jewels. The range of prices for American watches runs rrom $5 to $500, the coi.tlieGt being a split second sec-ond minute register timing watch. Iu the United States about o,Q00 watches are manufactured every day. The Walthoni factory turns out 1,500 per day and th Elgin factory between 1,00 and l),GO0. Chicago Hejald. |