EP0408512B1 - Montre-bracelet chronographe - Google Patents

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EP0408512B1
EP0408512B1 EP90810526A EP90810526A EP0408512B1 EP 0408512 B1 EP0408512 B1 EP 0408512B1 EP 90810526 A EP90810526 A EP 90810526A EP 90810526 A EP90810526 A EP 90810526A EP 0408512 B1 EP0408512 B1 EP 0408512B1
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Ernest Schneider
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Breitling Montres SA
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C1/00—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people
    • G07C1/22—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people in connection with sports or games
    • 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
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/06—Dials
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04F—TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
    • G04F7/00—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means
    • G04F7/04—Apparatus for measuring unknown time intervals by non-electric means using a mechanical oscillator
    • G04F7/08—Watches or clocks with stop devices, e.g. chronograph
    • G04F7/0866—Special arrangements
    • G04F7/089—Special arrangements indicating measured time by other than hands, e.g. numbered bands, drums, discs or sheet

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  • the invention relates to a chronograph wristwatch comprising a chronograph hand performing one revolution per minute and a minute counter comprising a graduated dial on which is mounted a sector of a rotating disc performing a fraction of a revolution per minute, so that at the start of the countdown, the disc sector reveals a first contrasting sector of the dial preceding the zero of the increase, the width of this disc sector decreasing as the countdown progresses.
  • the present invention aims to allow the user to know, at a glance, if the last minute has started or not, so that he does not need to observe the second hand before the last minute is started.
  • the invention is not however limited to particular numerical values.
  • the chronograph wristwatch according to the invention is characterized in that the disc sector has a notch and that the dial of the minute counter has a second sector of contrasting appearance located angularly so that said notch reaches this second sector of contrasting aspect of the dial at the moment when the front edge of the first contrasting sector of the dial reaches a graduation close to the zero of the graduation.
  • the user sees the second contrasting sector of the dial appear in the notch, he knows that the graduation which has just been reached by the front edge of the rotary sector is exceeded and that the next minute has started. For example, if the minute counter advances step by step, in one minute steps, if, when the contrasting sector appears in the notch, the graduation which has just been exceeded by the rotary sector corresponds to one minute before zero, the user knows that the last minute has just started.
  • the notch has an angular width corresponding to a fraction of an hour, for example one minute and the width of the second contrasting sector of the dial has the same angular width, for example one minute.
  • the invention is equally applicable to a minute counter advancing step by step as to a continuously advancing decounter. In the latter case, it is also possible to gradually show in the notch, during the last minute, part of the dial having a particular color.
  • FIG. 1 represents a chronograph wristwatch provided with a minute counter according to the invention.
  • Figures 2 to 4 show the minute counter in three successive positions.
  • the chronograph wristwatch shown in the figure comprises a dial 1 having a main graduation 2 for displaying the time by means of an hour hand 3 and a minute hand 4, a central chronograph hand 5 being able to be start and stop by means of a first pusher 6 and reset to zero by means of a second possoir 7, a small second hand of seconds 8, a minute counter 9 and a totalizer of hours 10.
  • the down counter 9 is shown alone, on a larger scale in FIGS. 2 to 4. It comprises a disk sector 11 mounted on the axis 12 in place of the needle of the usual minute counter. This sector 11 is graduated and rotates above a dial 13 graduated in minutes. Sector 11 completes a turn in thirty minutes. The part of the dial 13 corresponding to the last five minutes is colored in orange and bears the number 5, while the part of the dial 13 located between the last ten minutes and the last five minutes is colored in blue and bears the number 10. Preceding the blue zone, the dial also has a narrow orange sector 14 extending over a corresponding angle to a minute. The rotary sector 11 has a radial notch 15 whose width extends over an angle corresponding to one minute. The rear side 16 of the notch 15, considered in the direction of rotation of the sector 11, is located on the bisector of the sector 11. Along the second third of the circumference of the dial 13 further extends a graduation 17 graduated with ten at zero minutes.
  • the minute counter takes up the position shown in FIG. 2. In this position, the dorsal edge 18 of sector 11 is on the zero scale, the orange zone (5 min.) And the blue zone ( 10 min.) Are fully visible and the rear edge 16 of the notch 15 is opposite the graduation 10 of the auxiliary graduation 17.
  • the notch 15 advances on the orange sector 14.
  • the appearance of the orange color in the notch 15 signals to the user that the last minute has started. Therefore only the observation of the central chronograph hand 5 is necessary.
  • the notch 16 is also used during the countdown to indicate the time remaining to be counted down by means of the graduation 17.
  • the orange sector 14 does not necessarily have to be adjacent to the blue zone, but this sector could be located at a certain distance from this blue zone.
  • the notch 15 would then also be shifted back towards the edge 18.
  • the downcounting device could also be of the trailing type, that is to say driven by a continuous rotational movement.
  • the appearance of the orange sector 14 in the notch 15 would mean that the last two minutes have started.
  • the notch 15 would therefore also make it possible to distinguish between two minutes and one minute before the start.
  • the invention is of course applicable to any other numerical value, be it the number of revolutions of sector 11 in one hour, the angle of sector 11, the number of sectors of the dial of different colors, etc.

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
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  • Measurement Of Unknown Time Intervals (AREA)
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EP90810526A 1989-07-13 1990-07-11 Montre-bracelet chronographe Expired - Lifetime EP0408512B1 (fr)

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AT90810526T ATE82407T1 (de) 1989-07-13 1990-07-11 Chronographenarmbanduhr.

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CH2637/89A CH676313B5 (ja) 1989-07-13 1989-07-13
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EP (1) EP0408512B1 (ja)
JP (1) JPH0670678B2 (ja)
AT (1) ATE82407T1 (ja)
CH (1) CH676313B5 (ja)
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CH676313B5 (ja) 1991-07-15
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DE69000458D1 (de) 1992-12-17
JPH0670678B2 (ja) 1994-09-07
US5077708A (en) 1991-12-31
EP0408512A1 (fr) 1991-01-16
DE69000458T2 (de) 1993-05-27
CH676313GA3 (ja) 1991-01-15

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