pwrudy
01-23-2003, 07:39 AM
Dear Damon,
unfortunateley, to find reliable information on a watch signed 'Bellevue' is not as easy as you would think.
This name is not a company name, it is a trade name/model name. This means, a company registered different names which were put on the watch to market it in a certain country or with a certain retailer who could say for example: 'Contest Watches are only made for the house Huber in Munich' (Contest being a brand name of Bulova, my example being completely fictitious). On the other hand, you can be quite certain that your watch is of swiss manufacture and origin, but the company which produced this watch remains obscure as long as we do not see any pictures or have a detailed description (form of plates, number of jewels, dial, hands, and so on).
The brand name 'Bellevue' was used by the following companies:
Gruen, Bulova, Parker, G.F. Roskopf and Schwob-Weill. My source is Kathleen Pritchard, Swiss Tiempiece Makers, vol 1, Phoenix Publ. 1997, B-36.
unfortunateley, to find reliable information on a watch signed 'Bellevue' is not as easy as you would think.
This name is not a company name, it is a trade name/model name. This means, a company registered different names which were put on the watch to market it in a certain country or with a certain retailer who could say for example: 'Contest Watches are only made for the house Huber in Munich' (Contest being a brand name of Bulova, my example being completely fictitious). On the other hand, you can be quite certain that your watch is of swiss manufacture and origin, but the company which produced this watch remains obscure as long as we do not see any pictures or have a detailed description (form of plates, number of jewels, dial, hands, and so on).
The brand name 'Bellevue' was used by the following companies:
Gruen, Bulova, Parker, G.F. Roskopf and Schwob-Weill. My source is Kathleen Pritchard, Swiss Tiempiece Makers, vol 1, Phoenix Publ. 1997, B-36.