Process for the selective decoration of a timepiece component

    公开(公告)号:US11259609B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-01

    申请号:US15774035

    申请日:2016-10-20

    Inventor: Nicolas Francois

    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a timepiece or jewellery component, the component being manufactured from a first material, the process including: obtaining the component, having undergone, at a very latest during the obtaining, a treatment directed toward combining the component with a chromic element, the chromic element including at least one pigment capable of reacting to an energy supply and a matrix for binding the pigment; placing the component in a machine capable of at least locally supplying energy to the component; using the energy supply machine in a predefined operating program at least locally to provide energy to the chromic element to bring about a reaction of its pigment; removing the component from the energy supply machine.

    WATCH CASE EQUIPPED WITH AN EXTERIOR ELEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20220057753A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-24

    申请号:US17374192

    申请日:2021-07-13

    Inventor: Silvano BONADEI

    Abstract: The invention relates to a timepiece comprising a watch case formed by a middle closed by a back and a crystal, the middle being equipped with horns defining a space for receiving a bracelet strand, said timepiece comprising a sole arranged to rest against the back, the sole, the bracelet strand and the space between the horns comprising shaped elements arranged to cooperate by interlocking when the middle, the sole and the strand are assembled.

    Control crown for a timepiece
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    公开(公告)号:US11243498B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-08

    申请号:US16988779

    申请日:2020-08-10

    Abstract: A control crown for a timepiece, capable of cooperating, in order to maneuver a control rod, with a middle including a recess along an axis receiving a tube included in the crown, which includes a crown body capable of rotating covering both the rod and the tube, which includes a hollow to allow the rod to pass and/or be guided in rotation, the crown includes a closing cap fastened to the tube in a fixed angular position relative to the middle by the cooperation between indexing device of the tube and complementary indexing device of the closing cap, to axially enclose the crown body between the middle and the closing cap.

    Watch comprising an element provided with an illuminable index

    公开(公告)号:US11215952B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-04

    申请号:US16381795

    申请日:2019-04-11

    Abstract: A watch including a watch case provided with a case middle, the case middle carrying an element provided with at least one index and defining an inner cavity. The watch further includes at least one pair of electrodes and at least one light source device connected to the electrode pair and arranged opposite the index, the electrodes of the electrode pair being fixed inside the inner cavity, the element being water permeable such that, when the watch is immersed in seawater, the seawater can penetrate the inner cavity so that the electrode pair and the seawater form an electrochemical cell, for powering the light source device.

    HOROLOGICAL MOVEMENT COMPRISING AN ESCAPEMENT PROVIDED WITH A TOOTHED WHEEL AND A STOPPER

    公开(公告)号:US20210356911A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-18

    申请号:US17221429

    申请日:2021-04-02

    Abstract: A horological movement includes a resonator and an escapement wheel with flexible teeth, and an anchor formed of two mechanical pallets capable of abutting, when the anchor switches between its two rest positions, with any one of the flexible teeth depending on the angular position of the escapement wheel. Each flexible tooth is arranged to bend by undergoing an elastic deformation under a radial force that can be exerted by one of the two mechanical pallets abutting against this flexible tooth while the escapement wheel has an unfavourable angular position and the resonator is braked by the anchor. Each tooth has an elastic capacity to elastically absorb, in a radial direction, most of a maximum mechanical energy that the mechanical resonator may have during normal operation of the horological movement, to avoid breakage or deterioration of the escapement.

    POWER INDICATOR DEVICE OF A THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR OF A WATCH

    公开(公告)号:US20210341882A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US17203178

    申请日:2021-03-16

    Abstract: A power indicator device (1) of a thermoelectric generator of a watch. The indicator device includes a first gas fluid reservoir (2), a second gas fluid reservoir (3), and at least one tubular conduit (4) connecting the two reservoirs. The first reservoir is placed on an upper surface of the thermoelectric generator in a watch case, while the second reservoir (3) is placed on a lower surface of the thermoelectric generator in contact with the back of a watch case. The tubular conduit is of the capillary type and comprises in an intermediate portion (9) a liquid forming a barrier to the gas fluid of the two reservoirs and allowing, in a display portion (24) visible from the outside of the watch case, to provide an indication of the power of the generator by measuring the temperature difference of the two reservoirs.

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