A Man of Samples (1887)

William H. Maher's commercial-traveler novel follows salesmen, retailers, and road stories from the late nineteenth-century trade. (Open Library)

Watches

Waterbury watch: The narrator says Henley carries a Waterbury watch in each pocket, and another salesman later praises the Waterbury watch as a durable sales premium.

Source text: Henley can do this. The boys on the road know that he carries a Waterbury watch in each pocket, and expects to sell 1,000 bills in 1,000 minutes. (Project Gutenberg ebook 6132)