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Helvetia History
·Hello,
I was recently pointed towards a new research site by someone on another forum and thought I'd post details in case some hadn't heard of it.
The address is: https://www.e-periodica.ch/
There are a wide range of publications available to search, if you choose advanced search and leave the option at the top on all then at the bottom use the full text search box. It's probably best to put in a couple of words otherwise you may be swamped by results.
You then get a list of result with clickable page numbers.
Unfortunately they have just had a redesign and where you used to go to a page with the relevant text highlighted it now seems to load several pages which can take a little while before finally taking you to the correct page with highlighted text.
Here are some of the ads I found with a quick search:
One of the most interesting publications is the 'Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce'. This is a publication of trademarks mainly but also some registered designs. I have used it to track when Helvetia registered different designs of logos and trademarks and some movement designs.
After clicking on advanced search
Where it says 'all' choose 'Schweizerisches Handelsamtsblatt = Feuille officielle suisse du commerce = Foglio ufficiale svizzero di commercio'.
Then at the bottom of the search form use the full text search.
You then get the list of result with clickable page numbers.
Here are a few entries I found when searching for Omega content, Original trademark entries for Seamaster in 1949, Speedmaster and Seamaster 300 in 1957 and the Omega triangle logo from the inner case back from 1934.
Hope you find it as useful as I did.
Carl
I was recently pointed towards a new research site by someone on another forum and thought I'd post details in case some hadn't heard of it.
The address is: https://www.e-periodica.ch/
There are a wide range of publications available to search, if you choose advanced search and leave the option at the top on all then at the bottom use the full text search box. It's probably best to put in a couple of words otherwise you may be swamped by results.
You then get a list of result with clickable page numbers.
Unfortunately they have just had a redesign and where you used to go to a page with the relevant text highlighted it now seems to load several pages which can take a little while before finally taking you to the correct page with highlighted text.
Here are some of the ads I found with a quick search:
One of the most interesting publications is the 'Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce'. This is a publication of trademarks mainly but also some registered designs. I have used it to track when Helvetia registered different designs of logos and trademarks and some movement designs.
After clicking on advanced search
Where it says 'all' choose 'Schweizerisches Handelsamtsblatt = Feuille officielle suisse du commerce = Foglio ufficiale svizzero di commercio'.
Then at the bottom of the search form use the full text search.
You then get the list of result with clickable page numbers.
Here are a few entries I found when searching for Omega content, Original trademark entries for Seamaster in 1949, Speedmaster and Seamaster 300 in 1957 and the Omega triangle logo from the inner case back from 1934.
Hope you find it as useful as I did.
Carl
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