EP0131267B1 - Dispositif portatif comportant un mécanisme apparent - Google Patents

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EP0131267B1
EP0131267B1 EP84107868A EP84107868A EP0131267B1 EP 0131267 B1 EP0131267 B1 EP 0131267B1 EP 84107868 A EP84107868 A EP 84107868A EP 84107868 A EP84107868 A EP 84107868A EP 0131267 B1 EP0131267 B1 EP 0131267B1
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Claude Laesser
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ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
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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
    • G04B37/22—Materials or processes of manufacturing pocket watch or wrist watch cases
    • G04B37/225—Non-metallic 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
    • G04B29/00—Frameworks
    • G04B29/02—Plates; Bridges; Cocks
    • 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
    • G04B37/0008—Cases for pocket watches and wrist watches
    • G04B37/0058—Cases for pocket watches and wrist watches for shaped watches
    • 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
    • G04B45/00—Time pieces of which the indicating means or cases provoke special effects, e.g. aesthetic effects
    • G04B45/02—Time pieces of which the clockwork is visible partly or wholly

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  • the present invention relates to a portable device of the type comprising a support frame, a power source, a rotary drive member powered by this source, a gear train driven by said drive member, a transparent front plate and a rear plate.
  • US Patent 4459032 describes a watch comprising a metal box and two transparent plates forming the glass and the back of the watch. The time is displayed by means of discs fitted with indexes and pivoting on a shaft secured to the lower plate. All the other elements of the watch are housed in the box itself, at the periphery of the watch.
  • a watch comprising two glass plates joined to one another is described in US Pat. No. 4,362,397.
  • the outer plate forms the glass of the watch, as well as one of the plates of a display cell.
  • the bottom plate forms the other plate of this cell and a support frame for the other elements of the watch.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a device of the above kind which, unlike known devices, not only offers a very broad view of its constituent elements, but also has interesting aesthetic effects.
  • the watch shown in fig. 1 and 2 comprises a support frame formed by a stack of rectangular plates designated by the even numbers ranging from 10 to 28. These plates are made of transparent material, advantageously corundum (sapphire, ruby), spinel, quartz, or even glass or plastic.
  • the upper plate 10 constitutes the glass, while the lower plate 28 constitutes the bottom.
  • the plates 12 to 26 are cut internally so as to constitute, when they are stacked, housings for the constituent parts of the watch movement. This appears in detail in fig. 2, but is only shown very schematically in FIG. 1.
  • the plate 12 has a circular opening 66 and the plate 14 a circular opening 68, of smaller diameter, inside which are respectively the minute hand 36 and the hour hand 38.
  • the barrel 32 which contains the spring 30, occupies a housing formed by circular openings 70, 72, 74 and 76 respectively formed in the plates 16, 18, 20 and 22.
  • the ends of the barrel shaft pivot in holes 78 and 80 of plates 14 and 24 respectively.
  • the train 34 and the exhaust 40 occupy a housing formed by openings of appropriate shapes 82, 84 and 86, made in the plates 18, 20 and 22 respectively. They pivot in holes (not referenced) which are drilled in the plates 16, 18 and 24.
  • the pendulum 42 is located in a housing defined by circular openings 88, 90, 92 and 94 which comprise the plates 16, 18, 20 and 22 respectively. It pivots in holes (not referenced), made in plates 14 and 24.
  • the parts 46 to 64 constituting the winding and time-setting mechanism take place in a housing defined by openings 96 and 98 made in the plates 24 and 26.
  • the pull tab 46 and the rocker 52 pivot in holes (not referenced) drilled in the plate 22, while the crown 58 and the pawl 62 pivot in holes (not referenced) in the plate 24.
  • the rod 44 pivots in a tube 100, glued in a housing 102 that includes the plate 22.
  • the plates 10 to 28 are assembled by means of four screws 104 and four screw feet 106, respectively engaged in holes 108, made in each of the plates, with the exception of plate 22.
  • the latter shorter than the others, has four holes 110 which make it possible to position it on the plate 24 by means of four feet 112 integral with the latter and engaging in the holes 110. Thanks to this arrangement, it is possible insert between the plates 20 and 24, at the ends of the plate 22, two strap fasteners 114 and 116 which have holes 118 for the passage of the foot-screws 106.
  • the plate 22 is here thicker than the others in order to allow the use of a time-setting rod and strap fasteners sufficiently rigid to withstand the normal stresses to which a watch may be subjected.
  • the openings can be cut from the plates by any suitable means.
  • the cutting is advantageously carried out by laser beam or by ultrasound.
  • quartz it lends itself more easily to cutting by a photochemical process.
  • the invention is not limited to the single embodiment which has just been described.
  • the number of plates used can be increased or reduced.
  • the shape of the openings made in the plates it can either correspond fairly exactly, as shown in FIG. 1, to the shape of the constituent parts of the movement, or on the contrary to move away from it so as to produce, by itself, particular aesthetic effects.
  • the invention offers the possibility, not only, through the use of transparent plates, of making a watch in which all the parts are visible, but also, by playing on the color of the plates and the shape of their openings, create very particular aesthetic effects which give the whole an aspect close to that of a stained glass window.
  • corundum plates makes it possible to produce a particularly remarkable watch.
  • This material has a hardness which gives it a very high resistance to abrasion.
  • the aesthetic result is such that it is self-sufficient and that consequently, the time display function can be omitted to leave only a set of mobiles integrated in a sort of stained glass.

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EP84107868A 1983-07-08 1984-07-05 Dispositif portatif comportant un mécanisme apparent Expired EP0131267B1 (fr)

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CH375683A CH649185GA3 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1983-07-08 1983-07-08

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EP (1) EP0131267B1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
JP (1) JPS6038684A (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
CH (1) CH649185GA3 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
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