They could not endure a long voyage across the water without swelling the parts and rendering them useless as time-keepers; experience had taught us this, as many wood clocks on a passage to the southern market, had been rendered unfit for use for this very reason.
Metal clocks can be sent any where without injury.

Millions have been sent to Europe, Asia, South America, Australia, Palestine, and in fact, to every part of the world; and millions of dollars brought into this country by this means, and I think it not unfair to claim the honor of inventing and introducing this low-price time-piece which has given employment to so many of our countrymen, and has also, been so useful to the world at large.

No family is so poor but that they can have a time-piece which is both useful and ornamental.

They can be found in every civilized portion of the globe.

Meeting a sea captain one day, he told me that on landing at the lonely island of St.Helena, the first thing that he noticed on entering a house, was my name on the face of a brass clock.