EP1091269A1 - Uhrengehäuse - Google Patents

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EP1091269A1
EP1091269A1 EP99119821A EP99119821A EP1091269A1 EP 1091269 A1 EP1091269 A1 EP 1091269A1 EP 99119821 A EP99119821 A EP 99119821A EP 99119821 A EP99119821 A EP 99119821A EP 1091269 A1 EP1091269 A1 EP 1091269A1
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watch case
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Robert Nicoud Bertrand
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G21/00—Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces
    • 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
    • G04B3/00—Normal winding of clockworks by hand or mechanically; Winding up several mainsprings or driving weights simultaneously
    • G04B3/04—Rigidly-mounted keys, knobs or crowns
    • G04B3/045—Storing the operating element, also bringing it out of storage
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04C—ELECTROMECHANICAL CLOCKS OR WATCHES
    • G04C3/00—Electromechanical clocks or watches independent of other time-pieces and in which the movement is maintained by electric means
    • G04C3/001—Electromechanical switches for setting or display

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  • the present invention relates to watch cases. It relates to, more particularly, a box of the type comprising a shaped middle general circular, provided with at least one radial bore and means maneuverable from the outside to carry out, through this drilling, the control of a clock movement housed inside it.
  • Chronograph watches also generally include two push-buttons, arranged on either side of the crown.
  • the main object of the present invention is therefore to provide a box of watch that allows you to develop original aesthetic aspects without to do this, reduce the possibilities of functionality of the equipped watch of such a box.
  • the invention also aims to provide such a watch case which is simple, reliable and easy to handle.
  • the invention also aims to provide such a watch case which allow the masking of the watch control means when these are not used.
  • control means can be moved to a position along a side edge of the box in which they affect less the general aesthetic aspect of the box.
  • these means advantageously can be moved to a position in which they are less likely to cling to objects when the watch is worn, which in particular makes it possible to avoid untimely lifting of the control means.
  • the slide and the guide means have a generally annular shape.
  • the slide can be produced in the form of a ring or a portion of a ring.
  • the guide means are formed of an annular groove in which the slide can slide and in that said groove is separated from the central housing by a wall which comprises said opening and sealing means.
  • the manual control member has a protruding part, while the box has horns of attachment of a bracelet, integral with the middle part, at least one of which comprises a housing for retracting the protruding part.
  • control means can be retracted when they do not are not used and give the watch case an aesthetic appearance original.
  • the actuator is a pusher mounted sliding in the middle and the control member mates with him so that he can push him.
  • This embodiment is particularly suited to the case where the movement arranged in the middle of the case is a movement quartz watchmaking whose control can be achieved by actuation an electrical contact by means of a push-type actuator.
  • the actuator is a rod mounted both sliding and rotating in the middle part and the command mates with it so that it can simultaneously pull it, push and rotate.
  • the coupling of the control with the rod can be a bayonet type coupling.
  • This embodiment is particularly suited to the case where the movement arranged in the middle of the case is a movement of conventional mechanical watchmaking in which the means mentioned more top allow coupling to the time setting rod.
  • the middle part may include a plurality of radial holes inside each of which is mounted an actuator.
  • the watch case of the invention allows with a single means to command to carry out the command of several functions typically the chronograph functions.
  • the watch is, for example, a mechanical chronograph
  • at least one of the actuators is a rod, the other actuators being pushers.
  • the control unit of the rod actuator must then be of the type allowing, at the same time, to pull, pushing and rotating said actuator.
  • means are provided to stabilize the slide on the middle in each position for which their respective openings are aligned.
  • the watch case further includes at least one mark indicating the position (s) for which said control means can act on the movement to through said opening (s). Thanks to this feature the user can easily select the active position (s) of the organ control.
  • the watch case shown in FIG. 1 has a middle part 10, generally circular in shape.
  • the middle 10 includes an annular wall 12 which delimits a central housing 14 intended to receive a movement clockwork (not shown) which can be mechanical or quartz type analog or digital.
  • the wall 12 of the middle part 10 comprises at least an opening 16 which has the form of a radial bore of axis A-A and which opens into the housing 14.
  • the watch case further comprises means 18 maneuverable from the outside to control through the drilling 16 the different functions of a movement housed in the box.
  • the middle part further comprises a movable slide 20 presenting itself, in the example shown, in the form of a sliding circular ring in guide means formed by an annular groove 22 formed in its lower periphery.
  • the groove 22 is separated from the central housing 14 by the wall 12 of the middle part.
  • the ring 20 can thus rotate freely around the wall 12.
  • This ring 20 is also provided with a bore radial 24 in which are mounted the control means 18.
  • a actuator 26 intended to act on a corresponding member of the movement is slidably mounted in the bore 16.
  • this can be brought into at least one determined position in which the holes 16 and 24 can be aligned to allow the means to command 18 to act on the movement by means of the actuator 26.
  • control means 18 comprise a member for cylindrical manual control 18a comprising a protruding part which allows it to be manipulated and a part 18b passing through the ring 20.
  • the actuator 26 can be either a pusher capable only of slide in the hole 24 ( Figures 5a, 5b), or a rod ( Figures 6a, 6b) capable of both sliding and turning.
  • the organ of control 18, the protruding part 18a of which acts as a button has only need to be slidably mounted in the ring 20.
  • the member 18, whose protruding part 18a then acts as crown must also be able to turn.
  • the middle 10 conventionally comprises four horns 30, intended to carry the attachments of a bracelet.
  • the two horns 30 arranged on the side where the control member 18 is located each have a clearance 32 forming a housing intended to receive and hide its protruding part.
  • the middle part also comprises a second part 34 of generally annular shape which closes the annular groove 22 formed in the first part while allowing the ring 20 to slide.
  • this second part 34 completely covers the horns 30 and is fixed by means of four screws (not shown) engaged in threads formed in the horns 30.
  • a bottom 36 is notched on the second part 34. According to a variant, the bottom 36 could be made of a single piece with the second part 34.
  • FIG. 3 shows a chronograph, seen from above in a and side in b , equipped with a box according to the invention.
  • Its control member 18 can occupy four positions A1 to A4. Position A1 is used to start and stop the chronograph function. Position A2 corresponds to the time setting and date correction functions. In A3, the chronograph hands can be reset to zero. Finally, in A4, the control member is retracted into its housing.
  • FIG. 4 represents another type of chronograph, seen from above at a and from the side at b , having complementary functions. It then includes two control members 18, arranged on either side of the box, which can also occupy four positions, respectively B1 to B4 and B1 'to B4'.
  • the functions corresponding to positions B1 to B4 are the same as those of the chronograph in FIG. 3.
  • the additional functions controlled by the second member are, for example, in position B1 ', a function for measuring intermediate time with split-second, in position B2 ', a countdown function and, in position B3', a function for timing successive times without interrupting the measurement.
  • position B4 ' is that where the control member is retracted into its housing.
  • the control of the different functions can be done by push button and / or by rod.
  • the wall 12 of the middle part has as many drilling 24 and actuator 26 as there are desired function control positions.
  • a pressure in position A2 or B2 allows to select the function to be corrected when pressing in position A1, B1 or A3, B3 respectively back or forward the selected needle.
  • a first pulled position allows the date to be corrected, while a second pulled position allows time correction.
  • FIG. 5 represents, in section, the manner in which the actuator 26 and the member 18 are produced, in the rest position in a and in the depressed position in b , when the control of all the functions is done by push button.
  • the middle 10 with its radial bore 16, the actuator 26 engaged in the bore 16 inside which it can slide along its axis AA, the ring 20 and the annular groove 22.
  • the ring 20 carries the control 18, with its part 18a, housed in the ring 20, and its protruding part 18b, which acts as a button.
  • the part 18a is formed of a cylindrical tube 40 driven into the ring 20 and a tigeron 42, integral with the part protruding 18b and slidably mounted in the tube 40.
  • Means (not shown), known to those skilled in the art, limit the stroke of the tigeron 42 in the tube 40 to the outside in order to avoid its tearing.
  • the ring 20 comprises, in in addition, a hole 44 perpendicular to the axis A-A, from which partially emerges a ball 46 pushed outwards by a coil spring 47 and held in place by crimping.
  • the bottom of the annular groove 22 is provided, on the path traveled by the ball 46 during the rotation of the ring 20, a plurality of recesses 48 in which the ball 46 takes place so as to stabilize or index the ring 20 in each of its positions to which the control member 18 is aligned with an actuator 26.
  • the middle part 10 ends, at its inner end, with a portion of smaller diameter forming a span 50 and has two grooves serving respectively of housings with a seal 52 and a ring elastic or circlip 54 disposed in the vicinity of the outer end of the drilling 16.
  • the actuator 26 is a pusher formed of a cylindrical part mounted to slide in the bore 16 and comprising three sectors identified by the letters a , b and c .
  • the sector 26a the outermost, faces the end of the tigeron 42 which, when a pressure is exerted on the member 18, comes into contact with it and pushes the actuator 26 inwards.
  • the middle sector 26b is that which slides in the bore 16 while remaining permanently in contact with the seal 52. Furthermore, its outward travel is limited by the stop which constitutes the ring 54.
  • the sector 26c the innermost, is engaged in the reduced diameter end of the bore and opens out inside the central housing 14 of the middle part to actuate, in a conventional manner, a contactor 56 belonging to the movement and used to control its functions.
  • a coil spring 58 interposed around the sector 26c between the bearing 50 and the sector 26b, has the function of returning the actuator 26 in the direction of the tigeron 42.
  • the embodiment of Figure 5 therefore allows, in each of the stable positions of the ring 20, to control, by through the sliding actuator 26, the functions of the movement of the shows by simple pressure on the member 18.
  • FIG. 6 represents, in section, the manner in which the actuator 26 and the member 18 are produced, in the rest position in a and in the depressed position in b , when the control of the functions of the movement of the watch is made using a rod that can be pulled, pushed in and turned.
  • This embodiment differs from that described with reference to FIG. 5 in that the control member 18 and the actuator 26 are made integral with each other both in rotation and in traction.
  • the elements common to the two figures are designated by the same reference numbers.
  • the sliding tigeron 52 is then simply replaced by a tube 60, also slidably mounted in the tube 40 and the internal wall of which is provided with a finger 62.
  • the bore 16 of the middle part 10 has, at its outer end, a portion of larger diameter intended to receive the end of the tube 60.
  • the actuator 26 is, in this case, consisting of a conventional control rod sliding in the hole 16. Instead of having a crown, its outer end has a diameter adjusted to the inside diameter of tube 60 and has a hook groove 64.
  • the finger 62 and this groove are shaped and dimensioned so as to form a bayonet system.
  • the tube 60 plays the same role as the tigeron 52 and allows the insertion of the pusher.
  • the watch can thus be controlled by a member 18 produced according to FIG. 6, actuating a rod also produced according to FIG. 6 and pushers produced according to FIG. 5.
  • the watch case for example the bezel, may also include R marks ( Figure 3) which indicate the positions for which the control member 18 can act on the movement to through passages 16 and 24.

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WO2016113675A1 (fr) * 2015-01-14 2016-07-21 Cartier International Ag Boite de montre
EP3537231A1 (de) * 2018-03-06 2019-09-11 Patek Philippe SA Genève Armbanduhr, die zugängliche korrekturregler auf einem befestigungsglied des armbands umfasst
CN112947037A (zh) * 2019-12-10 2021-06-11 斯沃奇集团研究和开发有限公司 设置有控制部件的表
EP4057078A1 (de) * 2020-05-14 2022-09-14 Patek Philippe SA Genève Uhr, die eine steuervorrichtung mit verriegelung und eine drucktaste umfasst
EP4057079A1 (de) * 2021-03-10 2022-09-14 Meco S.A. Steuervorrichtung für ein uhrwerk mit taktiler rückmeldung und uhrwerk, insbesondere armbanduhr, mit einer solchen vorrichtung

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FR2278109A1 (fr) * 1974-07-11 1976-02-06 Meyer & Co Ag Horloge electrique
DE4015685A1 (de) * 1990-05-16 1991-11-21 Schickedanz Willi Armbanduhr

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FR2278109A1 (fr) * 1974-07-11 1976-02-06 Meyer & Co Ag Horloge electrique
DE4015685A1 (de) * 1990-05-16 1991-11-21 Schickedanz Willi Armbanduhr

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WO2016113675A1 (fr) * 2015-01-14 2016-07-21 Cartier International Ag Boite de montre
CN107209476A (zh) * 2015-01-14 2017-09-26 卡地亚国际有限公司 手表外壳
CN107209476B (zh) * 2015-01-14 2021-01-05 卡地亚国际有限公司 手表外壳
EP3537231A1 (de) * 2018-03-06 2019-09-11 Patek Philippe SA Genève Armbanduhr, die zugängliche korrekturregler auf einem befestigungsglied des armbands umfasst
CN112947037A (zh) * 2019-12-10 2021-06-11 斯沃奇集团研究和开发有限公司 设置有控制部件的表
CN112947037B (zh) * 2019-12-10 2022-05-13 斯沃奇集团研究和开发有限公司 设置有控制部件的表
US11493886B2 (en) 2019-12-10 2022-11-08 The Swatch Group Research And Development Ltd Watch provided with a control member
EP4057078A1 (de) * 2020-05-14 2022-09-14 Patek Philippe SA Genève Uhr, die eine steuervorrichtung mit verriegelung und eine drucktaste umfasst
EP4057079A1 (de) * 2021-03-10 2022-09-14 Meco S.A. Steuervorrichtung für ein uhrwerk mit taktiler rückmeldung und uhrwerk, insbesondere armbanduhr, mit einer solchen vorrichtung
CN115079546A (zh) * 2021-03-10 2022-09-20 Meco有限公司 具有触觉反馈的钟表机芯控制装置和包括该装置的钟表
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