EP0082119A1 - Armbanduhrmittelteil und Herstellungsverfahren - Google Patents

Armbanduhrmittelteil und Herstellungsverfahren Download PDF

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EP0082119A1
EP0082119A1 EP82810545A EP82810545A EP0082119A1 EP 0082119 A1 EP0082119 A1 EP 0082119A1 EP 82810545 A EP82810545 A EP 82810545A EP 82810545 A EP82810545 A EP 82810545A EP 0082119 A1 EP0082119 A1 EP 0082119A1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
    • B44C1/00—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing decorative surface effects
    • B44C1/26—Inlaying with ornamental structures, e.g. niello work, tarsia work
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • G04B37/22—Materials or processes of manufacturing pocket watch or wrist watch cases
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B47/00—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece
    • G04B47/04—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece with attached ornaments or amusement apparatus
    • G04B47/042—Fastening of jewels and the like

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  • the middle parts of known wristwatch cases bear a cap of scratch-resistant material or are made entirely of such material.
  • the cap in question is an expensive and delicate workpiece, because of its shape and the shrinkage that hard materials, in principle sintered, undergo.
  • the fixing of this cap to the middle of the box is not easy, if it is to be removable and nevertheless sufficiently strong to avoid accidental separation.
  • the manufacture is even more difficult and costly, because the piece of scratch-resistant material must still have means allowing it to fix a watch movement.
  • such a part, made entirely of hard material is subject to rupture due to impact. It follows that its manufacturer is exposed to having to replace a significant number of whole boxes, to ensure after-sales service worthy of the name.
  • the invention aims to avoid these drawbacks, by protecting the edge of the middle of a wristwatch case by means that are just as effective as the known means, but clearly simpler and therefore less costly.
  • a middle part having the features defined by claim 1 is suitably protected, because the protective elements which line the edge thereof protrude from the latter. They thus keep foreign objects away from the body of the middle part, which can even be made of a relatively soft material, very easily machinable and inexpensive.
  • This protective effect is already achieved by using relatively low protruding elements, as shown of the shape of these elements, which is defined in the characteristic of claim 1.
  • the decorative elements could, in fact, be manufactured entirely by stretching, parting off, stamping, folding and polishing, so that after their welding to the neckline of the middle part, the latter was finished.
  • the method of fixing the protective elements defined by claim 2 is particularly simple and very effective.
  • adhesives on the market which resist most chemical agents, including hydrofluoric acid. They also provide an adhesion of 3.5 to 4.5 kilograms-force per square millimeter.
  • the invention is not limited to the protection of the slice of polygonal shoulders, as is apparent from claim 4. Although the implementation of the protective elements is more laborious than in the embodiments defined by the claim 3, these executions are still very interesting because of the reduced cost of said protective elements.
  • the protective elements of the edge of the middle part will be made as defined in claim 5, because they give this middle part a very attractive appearance, especially if its upper face is completely covered by glass, as described in the applications for Swiss patent N ° 4228 / 80-0, 2858 / 81-8, 2859 / 81-0, because, in this case, it is possible to match the aspect of the edge of the middle with that of the edge of the glass.
  • the middle part according to the invention is advantageously manufactured according to the process defined by claim 7. It is, in fact, easy to manufacture quer cylindrical or spherical elements of hard material to the desired diameter. As the build is raw when they are glued, the manipulations that this last operation involves are not likely to alter it. The same applies to the subsequent grinding of the protective elements. This operation does not affect the body of the middle. Finally, the termination treatments then applied to the body of the middle part, which usually include a final polishing and a surface treatment, no longer affect the protective elements, which are much harder than the body of the middle part and than the means used. to polish the latter.
  • grinding removes a relatively soft material - gold - to leave only encrustations of this material in a hard part - stone - and not vice versa, a very hard material - corundum -, glued to a relatively soft support, in brass, for example.
  • Fig. 8 illustrates another step in this mode of implementation.
  • the middle part 1 (Fig. 2) of the watch case shown in Figs. 1 to 3 has its upper face 2 entirely covered by the sapphire crystal 3, which is fixed to the middle part 1 by force engagement in the opening 4 thereof, with the interposition of a cuff 5, of a central plate 6, transparent, also made of sapphire or made of tempered mineral glass, which is glued under the glass 3.
  • the periphery of the latter carries an opaque decorative frame 7, which determines the appearance of the upper face of the watch, in conjunction with the dial 8, visible inside the frame 7.
  • the glass of the watch shown could naturally also be arranged and fixed to the middle part 1 in one or other of the ways described in Swiss patent applications No. 2858 / 81-8 and 2859 / 81-0.
  • the middle part 1 has a rectangular outline with corners 9 cut at 45 °.
  • the edge 14 of the middle part 1 has semi-cylindrical recesses 15, which extend from a across these flat faces of wafer 14 the middle.
  • the thickness of the usual movements, produced in large series, is currently of the order of magnitude close to 2 mm
  • the dimensions of the recesses 15 can be chosen so as not to allow them to remain, above and below them, only parts of the long sides 12, 13 of the edge 14 of the middle part 1, the height of which does not exceed a few tenths of a millimeter. It will also be noted that these recesses 15 can be machined without difficulty, using a shaped cutter.
  • Rods 16, 17, 18 in transparent monocrystalline corundum are glued in the recesses 15.
  • these rods have the shape of circular segments extending over a little more than 180 °, so as to exit from the recesses 15 and to be presented parts of about two tenths of a millimeter in thickness projecting from the edge 14 of the middle 1.
  • the part of the rods 16, 17, 18, which is glued in the recesses 15 is coated with a thin reflective metallic layer 19.
  • This layer 19 is deposited on the rods 16, 17, 18 by vaporization under vacuum in a manner well known to those skilled in the art. The adhesion of a layer deposited in this way is remarkable. It is, in fact, no longer possible to remove it without. take part of the corundum at the same time.
  • the side of the middle 1 extending opposite "9 o'clock" is provided with two rods, 17, 18, to make room, between these, for the crown 20, which is arranged on this side of the case, so that the strip 16, arranged on the other side and visible to wear, is not interrupted.
  • the layer 19 has, in fact, the property of concentrating in a central area of the rods 16, 17, 18, the rays of an incident light beam, as shown by the arrows a and b (Fig. 2), so that by observing these rods in the light, we see, in the middle of their flat face 21, a "line” 22 of very great luminosity compared to the rest of the rods. Oddly enough, this line 22 gives, apparently, first to the middle, but also to the watch itself, the thickness of a watch with case whose middle is about a millimeter thinner.
  • the chosen location of the crown 20 therefore also has the effect of do not interrupt the optical phenomenon mentioned on the side of the edge of the middle turned towards the hand of the watch wearer, which is precisely the one that comes out of the wearer's sleeves and is, therefore, the most visible.
  • the described position of the crown 20 is not disadvantageous. On the contrary, in this place, it is less exposed to the risk of being torn off.
  • this crown In a quartz watch, moreover, this crown is only used for setting the time, which is done to the nearest second, by advancing the minute and second hands and stopping them on a specific time, while waiting the corresponding "top" of the speaking clock. If the watch is equipped with a calendar mechanism, the crown 20 is also used to update the latter, after the months of less than thirty-one days.
  • these operations controlled by the crown which are relatively delicate and must be carried out with great dexterity, are almost never done while keeping the watch on the wrist. When removed, the location of the crown on either of the long sides of the case is clearly irrelevant.
  • the ends of the strips 16, 17, 18, which are adjacent to the strap fixing horns, are cut at 45 °, so as to be flush with the corners 9 of the box.
  • various metals such as for example chromium, silver, gold, and certain carbides such as, for example, those of titanium or boron, can be used to form the layers 19. It is thus possible to '' match the appearance of the sticks 16, 17, 18 to the rest of the visible parts of the middle part (platinum, gold, rhodium silver, stainless steel or chrome, nickel-plated, plated) or to the appearance of the frame 7.
  • the strips 16, 17, 18 In order to adequately protect the edge of the middle, in all cases a material will be chosen for the strips 16, 17, 18 practically scratch-resistant, that is to say that it does not scratch when the watch is worn normally. Since the strips 16, 17, 18 protrude from the middle part 1, the parts of the edge of the latter that they reveal are kept away from contact with foreign objects, which could alter the state of area. Given the lack of grip on such objects offered by the rods 16, 17, 18 themselves, they practically do not risk breaking or sagging. It is thus possible to give the edge of the middle of a wristwatch case an extremely neat appearance, which the wearer of the watch will not have the spite to see soon deteriorate.
  • cylindrical elements 23 (Fig. 7) are made, plunge rectified without centers and perfectly polished.
  • the length of the elements 23 will somewhat exceed that of the sides of the middle.
  • a number of elements 23 are then placed in the semi-cylindrical cells 24 of a support 25, which are introduced into a vacuum vaporization installation.
  • the exposure of the elements 23 to the vaporization 26, produces on them the layer 19, which extends over a little less than 180 °.
  • this layer is automatically reflective.
  • the orientation of the elements 23 on the support 25 is indifferent. There is therefore no precaution to take to fill the cells 24 with this support.
  • the elements 23, filled with the layer 19, can then be glued to the middle part 1 (Fig. 8). In doing so, care should be taken that the metallized part of the elements 23 disappears inside the groove 15 of the middle part. As the metallization extends over an arc of the section of the elements 23, which is a little smaller than 180 °, it is not necessary to use special provisions to orient the elements 23 with respect to the middle part 1 so that their metallized part is indeed entirely inside the groove 15. When the adhesive used is fully polymerized, the elements 23 can no longer be separated from the middle part 1 by destroying them.
  • the second embodiment differs essentially from the first by the fact that the long sides of the case and therefore also of the middle part are arched. Instead of milling a continuous groove in these curved faces of the edge of the middle part 28, there are formed in these faces rows of hemispherical cells 29, as close together as possible and whose diameter is approximately equal to the width of the grooves 15 of the first embodiment.
  • This middle part is manufactured as described above, with reference to Figs. 7 and 8. However, we start with balls, instead of cylindrical elements 23. After having glued these balls into the cells 29 of the middle part 28 and having removed a part a little less than half by grinding, it is a chain of spherical caps which garnishes the edge of the long sides of the middle part 28.
  • the balls used in this embodiment are made of transparent monocrystalline corundum, then coated with a reflective layer, as illustrated in FIG. 7, an optical phenomenon analogous to that which has been described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3, also occurs in this second embodiment.
  • a series of dots 30 appears, each of them being in the center of the flat face 31 of the protective elements 32.
  • the body should preferably be made of brass.

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EP0334375A1 (de) * 1988-03-24 1989-09-27 D. Swarovski & Co. Armbanduhr
CH675045GA3 (de) * 1989-03-07 1990-08-31
EP0574360A1 (de) * 1992-05-14 1993-12-15 Giovanni Battista Consolo Uhrzeiger mit Mittel zum Einsetzen von Diamanten oder Steinen variabler Grösse
WO2005101139A1 (fr) * 2004-04-14 2005-10-27 Rotary Group Holdings Limited Boite de montre
CN109613813A (zh) * 2019-02-25 2019-04-12 广东小天才科技有限公司 一种穿戴设备

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CH312654A (fr) * 1954-08-13 1956-02-15 Graber Samuel Procédé de fabrication d'une boîte de montre-bracelet, et boîte de montre-bracelet obtenue par ce procédé
FR1393525A (fr) * 1964-02-06 1965-03-26 Procédé de gravure et d'incrustation, notamment pour pierres de bijouterie et produits obtenus
DE2921597A1 (de) * 1979-05-28 1980-12-04 Liss Ag Verfahren zum anbringen von abriebfesten dekorationselementen auf uhrenschalen und uhrenarmbaendern

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CH312654A (fr) * 1954-08-13 1956-02-15 Graber Samuel Procédé de fabrication d'une boîte de montre-bracelet, et boîte de montre-bracelet obtenue par ce procédé
FR1393525A (fr) * 1964-02-06 1965-03-26 Procédé de gravure et d'incrustation, notamment pour pierres de bijouterie et produits obtenus
DE2921597A1 (de) * 1979-05-28 1980-12-04 Liss Ag Verfahren zum anbringen von abriebfesten dekorationselementen auf uhrenschalen und uhrenarmbaendern

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EP0334375A1 (de) * 1988-03-24 1989-09-27 D. Swarovski & Co. Armbanduhr
CH675045GA3 (de) * 1989-03-07 1990-08-31
EP0386621A1 (de) * 1989-03-07 1990-09-12 Eta SA Fabriques d'Ebauches Uhr mit einer durch zwei Längsträger getragenen Werkplatten- und Mittelteil-Einheit
US5001686A (en) * 1989-03-07 1991-03-19 Eta Sa Fabriques D'ebauches Watch case including a baseplate-caseband borne by two longitudinal struts
EP0574360A1 (de) * 1992-05-14 1993-12-15 Giovanni Battista Consolo Uhrzeiger mit Mittel zum Einsetzen von Diamanten oder Steinen variabler Grösse
WO2005101139A1 (fr) * 2004-04-14 2005-10-27 Rotary Group Holdings Limited Boite de montre
CN109613813A (zh) * 2019-02-25 2019-04-12 广东小天才科技有限公司 一种穿戴设备

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