EP1065576A1 - Chronographuhr aus Edelmetall mit einem ausgehöhlten Glasreif-Mittelteil - Google Patents

Chronographuhr aus Edelmetall mit einem ausgehöhlten Glasreif-Mittelteil Download PDF

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EP1065576A1
EP1065576A1 EP99112394A EP99112394A EP1065576A1 EP 1065576 A1 EP1065576 A1 EP 1065576A1 EP 99112394 A EP99112394 A EP 99112394A EP 99112394 A EP99112394 A EP 99112394A EP 1065576 A1 EP1065576 A1 EP 1065576A1
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Silvant Olivier
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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
    • G04B45/00—Time pieces of which the indicating means or cases provoke special effects, e.g. aesthetic effects
    • 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
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • G04B37/04—Mounting the clockwork in the case; Shock absorbing mountings
    • G04B37/05—Fixed mountings for pocket or wrist 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
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • G04B37/08—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits
    • G04B37/10—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of winding stems
    • G04B37/106—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of winding stems of push buttons
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to a chronograph watch box having a noble metal bezel comprising a recess in which are placed from place to place segments of base material for the purpose functional to allow the assembly of the other constituent parts of said chronograph watch and to ensure watertightness at the winding stem passages.
  • envelope within the meaning of the present invention means a structure rigid enough to be handled, not just a deposit of metal of a few tens of microns on a matrix of base material constituting already the middle or a middle-bezel.
  • Such an "envelope" within the meaning of the present invention is for example obtained in a known manner by the technique electroforming which allows to obtain complex shapes having thicknesses which can vary from a few tens of microns to a few hundreds of microns.
  • the thickness of the envelope is too small, for example on the order of 150 to 200 ⁇ m, it is necessary to provide means for reinforcement arranged throughout the recess to protect the external wall against shock or pressure.
  • such reinforcement is obtained at by means of several segments having the same profile as the internal wall of the middle, said segments being pressed against mounting against said wall at by means of a frustoconical nesting circle.
  • four segments covering at least 85% of the periphery of the recess are held in place, either by elastic means arranged in a groove all around or from place to place, either by screwing flanges at the passage of the winding stem.
  • these segments which are made of metal or vile alloy such as brass, have no virtually no mechanical function other than strengthening and especially contribute to weigh down the timepiece, which has the disadvantage to make believe that it is in noble metal, gold or solid platinum.
  • the present invention relates, on the contrary, to a chronograph watch noble metal, that is to say a timepiece comprising not only a stem, but also at least two pushers and whose hollowed-out bezel has sufficient thickness to withstand pressure or impact external, but still insufficient to allow mechanical assembly of all the components necessary for the construction of said watch chronograph.
  • the invention therefore relates in particular to an arrangement allowing to economically produce such an assembly with a reduced number of rooms.
  • the invention relates to a chronograph watch in noble metal including a box, closed by a glass and a bottom in support on a rigid bezel having a recess open towards the center of the box and in which are provided through passages for a rod time setting and for guide bushings of at least two pushers, and a chronograph movement with its display device positioned in said box by a casing circle disposed between said movement and said middle-bezel.
  • This chronograph watch is characterized by the fact that the guide bushings include a threaded tube on the outside and finished by a collar and in that at least two disjointed shaped segments substantially like the recess and drilled with a threaded hole are arranged at the straight pusher sockets to allow by screwing from the outside to ensure both a firm positioning of said segments and a sealing at said sockets by crushing a metal ring of the middle-bezel around the passing passages.
  • One of the segments, in its upper part, on the ice side, is provided with a pin, the head of which protrudes from the face oriented towards the center of the box to cooperate with a notch practiced in the part upper of the nesting circle to allow indexing the position of said nesting circle, that is to say to perfectly align its passages crossing with those provided in the middle and in the segments for the passage of the time-setting rod and the segments respectively.
  • this pin is preferably placed next to the threaded hole for the plunger socket and not above of it. Equivalently, the pin could be replaced by a tenon coming from material with the segment.
  • each segment has, in the lower part of its face oriented towards the center and in an area not located at the level of the threaded hole, a groove parallel to the bottom, into which the screw engages head of an eccentric head screw previously screwed into a housing of the wall of the casing circle which then becomes integral with the segments and the middle-bezel.
  • the number of these disjoint segments multifunctional depends on the number of pushers.
  • the chronograph watch includes four pushers arranged at 2h, 4h, 8h and 10h and therefore four segments which will occupy 50 to 60% of the recess of the middle-bezel, or even less.
  • the chronograph watch includes a case 1 with a monobloc middle-bezel 20 of noble metal such as gold is closed by a crystal 12 and a bottom 13.
  • This box is intended to receive a chronograph movement 5 and its display device comprising a dial 6 conventionally having hands 7 and counters 8a, as well as two small windows 8b for a digital display.
  • External control elements comprising four pushers 2, arranged in the positions 2h, 4h, 8h, 10h and a setting rod hour 4.
  • the middle-bezel 20 has a recess 19 over its entire periphery oriented towards the center of the box 1 and delimited by a wall 18 having in all substantially the same thickness of the order of 400 ⁇ m, which gives it already sufficient rigidity to withstand shock and pressure without it it is necessary to provide reinforcement ribs.
  • This bezel 20 is advantageously obtained by the electroforming technique which easily makes it possible to produce hollow deformations in the wall 18 23, 24 respectively intended to partially house the pusher heads 2 ( Figure 3) and the crown of the winding stem 4 ( Figure 5) and a recessed conformation 28 provided with a through passage 29 for the attachment of a strap (figure 6).
  • the hollow deformations 23 have a circular opening 25 for the passage of the pusher mechanism 2 comprising a socket 50 to inside which slides a rod 51 extended outside by a head.
  • the hollow deformation 24 comprises a circular opening 3, extended by a sleeve 3a coming from material with the wall 18 and having the same thickness as this to allow the guiding the winding stem 4 and sealing at this level.
  • the upper part of the middle-bezel 20 constitutes the bezel 21 proper and includes a curved edge 22 which ensures sealing at the level of the glass 12 as will be explained later.
  • the lower part comprises at least one ring 17 parallel to the bottom 13 which ensures sealing at this level.
  • segments 30, arranged in line with the pushers 2 constitute an essential connecting element for mounting the various components of the chronograph watch.
  • 4 segments 30 are placed in the recess 19, in line with the pushers 2, that they are not joined and that they each occupy an angular sector about 50 °, or approximately 55% of the recess 19, that is to say that they have a very incidental role in the rigidity of the middle or the artificial increase in the weight of the timepiece as a whole.
  • These segments 30 are made of a bright metal, nevertheless having good mechanical properties, such as brass, to allow machining in the substantially median part a threaded through passage 35 provided for coincide with the opening 25 of the middle-bezel 20.
  • This pre-positioning of the segments 30 then makes it possible to engage a casing circle 40 comprising non-threaded through holes 43 and 45, respectively for the passage of the time setting rod 4 and for the pusher mechanisms 2.
  • This circle socket 40 also includes in its lower part (bottom side 13) notches at the bottom of which are drilled 47 for the implementation eccentric head screw position 48.
  • the eccentric part of these eccentric screws is designed to come to bear against the bottom of a groove 38 formed in a segment 30 in its face 34 oriented towards the inside of the box 1.
  • the groove 38 extends from one end to the other of the segment. It is also possible that this groove is blind in being machined only at the eccentric head screw 48 with which is cooperates.
  • the casing circle 40 In its upper part on the glass side, the casing circle 40 has an angular recess 42 which allows said upper part to follow the contour of the internal face of the telescope 21 and of its edge curved 22. By unscrewing, the eccentric head screw 48 will bear on the bottom of the groove 38 and will lock the socket circle 40 against the face internal of the telescope 21.
  • the circle socket includes a notch 41 in which engages a indexing pin 31 inserted in the face 34 of one of the segments 30 in its upper part and substantially above the groove 38. So equivalent the function of pin 31 could be fulfilled by a tenon coming from material with segment 30, in particular in the case where the blank brass is obtained by molding.
  • Figure 2 shows segment 30 having an indexing pin 31 which is, in the example chosen the segment positioned at 2 o'clock. The other three segments have exactly the same shape, but does not have an indexing pin.
  • sockets 50 from the outside in the passages threaded through 35 segments 30.
  • These sockets have a tube part smooth 54, having for length substantially the thickness of the casing circle 40, a portion of threaded tube 55 having a length substantially the thickness a segment 30 at the threaded through hole 35, a first shoulder 56 and a second shoulder 57 used to guide so known the pusher head, the sealing of which is ensured at this level by a seal 58 housed in a groove formed inside the socket.
  • a seal 58 housed in a groove formed inside the socket.
  • time setting rod 4 we put in place the time setting rod 4, being observed, referring to the Figure 5 that it is guided only by a guide tube 3a having the same thickness as the wall 18 of the middle part and extending the opening 3, and that there is therefore no need to reinforce the recess of the middle there.
  • This time-setting rod passes through the passage crossing 43 of the casing circle 40 and has a groove inside which is disposed a seal 58 bearing against the internal surface of the guide tube 3a.
  • the assembly continues with the installation of an ice seal 11 which is compressed radially by placing the glass 12 against the edge curved 22 of the middle-bezel 20, that is to say indirectly against the casing ring 40.
  • the bottom is screwed, which includes a ring 14 having a thread towards the outside corresponds to the thread 44 of the nesting circle, said ring being extended by a ring 17 provided near its periphery of a groove 15 to receive a seal which is compressed axially against an annular part 27 of the bottom of the middle part-bezel 20, this which ensures sufficient tightness even when the recess 19 does not includes no segment, as shown in Figures 5 and 6.

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EP99112394A 1999-06-29 1999-06-29 Chronographuhr aus Edelmetall mit einem ausgehöhlten Glasreif-Mittelteil Expired - Lifetime EP1065576B1 (de)

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EP99112394A EP1065576B1 (de) 1999-06-29 1999-06-29 Chronographuhr aus Edelmetall mit einem ausgehöhlten Glasreif-Mittelteil
DE69938543T DE69938543T2 (de) 1999-06-29 1999-06-29 Chronographuhr aus Edelmetall mit einem ausgehöhlten Glasreif-Mittelteil
SG200003065A SG84602A1 (en) 1999-06-29 2000-06-01 Precious metal chronograph watch with a hollowed middle part-bezel
US09/594,717 US6315443B1 (en) 1999-06-29 2000-06-16 Precious metal chronograph watch with a hollowed middle part-bezel
JP2000192242A JP4422301B2 (ja) 1999-06-29 2000-06-27 くぼみ形の中央部分ベゼルを備えた貴金属クロノグラフウォッチ
KR1020000035830A KR100676593B1 (ko) 1999-06-29 2000-06-28 중공 중간부-베젤이 구비된 귀금속 크로노그래프 시계
CN00118481A CN1122898C (zh) 1999-06-29 2000-06-28 具有中空中部表框的贵金属精密计时表
HK01104583A HK1035582A1 (en) 1999-06-29 2001-07-03 Precious metal chronograph watch with a hollowed middle part-bezel

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CN1122898C (zh) 2003-10-01
CN1280322A (zh) 2001-01-17
DE69938543D1 (de) 2008-05-29
EP1065576B1 (de) 2008-04-16
SG84602A1 (en) 2001-11-20
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DE69938543T2 (de) 2009-06-18
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