Outlook

An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Current Life

Stanford Library

MAY 13 1921

27

What Did
The War Do

To You?

This issue of The Outlook
contains the remarkable
human record of

Five Hundred
Personal

Confessions

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1921
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THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY

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Jaw Gauge

The Pivot or Shaft

The Bearing of a Shaft that Measures Only
Six One-Thousandths of a Centimeter, the Diameter

of a Normal Human Hair
W.

E told you in our last adver- Watch, the works of which are de

tisement that the twelfth part signed to perform on a pivot mea-
of a human hair was the difference surement of six one-thousandths of
between the Waltham standardized a centimeter.
accuracy and the variable guess- But suppose this pivot was enlarged
work in foreign watches.

the third part of a human hair, fric-
A normal human hair measures six

tion would be increased, causing a one-thousandths of a centimeter.

variation in the time-keeping qualImagine, then, the pivots or bear

ities of the watch.
ings of the Balance Shaftbeing only

The Waltham Watch Company has
the size of a human hair.
a

created marvelous gauges that meas

ure even the twelfth partof a human
If you should split one of the hairs

hair to determine these variations
of
your

head into six equal parts, and eliminate errors unseen by the
each part would measure approxi-

human eye in the works of a watch, mately one-thousandth of a centi

which mean all the difference to you meter. Yet, even this minute varia

in dependability and value, giving tion is eliminated by the Waltham

another of those unanswerable reastandard of measurement.

sons why your watch selection For instance, here is a Waltham should be a Waltham.

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Outlook

An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Current Life

Photograph by John Kabel

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