Short Biography of Julius R. Watts

Mr. Julius R. Watts, president of the Jewelers' Association, has been in Atlanta six or eight years. He came here from Nebraska where he was in the jewelry business practially speaking, all his life. He is a middle-aged man, with all the energy and enterprise of the average western citizen of this republic. He believed in going ahead. He does not like the idea of getting lazy and slow about anything. What is worth doing at all, is worth doing well, is one of his watchwords, and he carries this into his trade with telling results. There are few more popular jewelry stores in this entire region of the south than is the one over which he, as leading partner, presides. Mr. Watts knows everything about the business that is to be known, having spent several years of his life in the old country studying the art of making a watch. He knows the secrets of the inside of a watch as well as any doctor knows the general makeup of the human constitution. He was educated in the art at Dresden, where he spent several years hard at study. Mr. Watts has made an excellent president of the Jewelers' Association, and under his splended guidance it is easy to predict that the organization will continue to flourish as the proverbial green bay tree.

Source: "Atlanta Constitution" ²⁰⁶³