EP2107435A1 - Watch displaying time zones - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to an analog display watch having a first time display for a first time zone, associated with a first time setting device, a second time display for a second time zone, associated with a second manual setting device. at time, and a time zone indicator having at least one index and a ring of places provided with place symbols which represent time zones, the ring of locations being rotatable next to said index or vice versa, the first manual time-setting device being capable of simultaneously setting the first and second time displays simultaneously, and the second time-setting device being able to rotate the second time display together step by step and time zone indicator without changing the state of the first time display.
- the time display comprises four central hands, including a second hand and a minute hand which are driven as usual by the watch movement.
- the pavement drives a 24-hour wheel carrying a first hour hand, to indicate for example the time of the beam home ("home time") on a scale of 24 hours.
- home time the time of the beam home
- a second hour hand is secured to a 12-hour wheel which is connected to the 24-hour wheel by a planetary gear, including the planet carrier is provided with the ring of places with city names appearing in turn in a window of the dial to identify the second time zone.
- a usual time-setting device with a stem and a crown makes it possible to simultaneously rotate the 24-hour wheel and the 12-hour wheel, thus the two hour hands. the minute hand.
- a second time-setting device operated by means of a manual crown or pushers, moves in 1/24 turn steps the planet carrier, thus the ring of the places and simultaneously the 24 hour wheel. his needle.
- the present invention aims to create a watch able to display simultaneously and clearly the hours of two time zones, facilitating the manipulations required for time changes and / or time zone.
- a particular goal is to allow the user to take into account the summer and winter times for each of the two locations, so as to introduce the correct time difference between the two displays of time.
- a watch of the type indicated in the preamble above characterized in that it comprises, in addition to the first and second time-setting devices, a manual corrector place, able to rotate Step by step through the ring of places without changing the state of the first and second time displays.
- the time zone indicator comprises two indexes, angularly offset by 1/24 of a turn, so that when the symbol of a given time zone is next to the first of these index, the second time display shows the time normal or winter, while when the same symbol is next to the second index, the second time display shows daylight saving time in the same time zone, if applicable.
- it is the ring places that is rotatable, while said first and second indexes are counters in the dial for hourly displays.
- the watch shown comprises a box 30 containing in particular the specific display members of the present invention.
- manual control members comprising two setting crowns 31 and 32, a date setting ring 33 and a location correction push-button 34.
- the watch On its upper face, the watch has a dial 36 serving all the displays mentioned below.
- Other elements of the watch which are not necessary to describe the present invention, are omitted from the drawings for simplicity.
- a first time display 40 comprising a minute hand 42 and an hour hand 41 making a turn in twenty-four hours next to a corresponding hour-turn 43 which is off-center on the dial 36.
- a second time display 44 comprising a central minute hand 46 and a central hour hand 45 making a turn in twelve hours next to a traditional clock tower 47 centered in the dial 36, which corresponds in the usual display mode and thus allows a fast and safe reading.
- This second time display 44 further comprises a day / night indicator 48 including, for example, a needle 49 coupled to the needle 46 by a gear so as to make a turn in twenty-four hours.
- the two time displays 40 and 44 are driven by the clock movement housed in the box 30. This movement could also cause a second hand, added to one or other of the time displays.
- a time zone indicator 50 comprises two windows 51 and 52 formed in the dial 36 and angularly offset by 1/24 of a turn relative to the center of the dial, to show two equally offset sectors on a rotating locus ring 53, represented in FIG. part in the figure 2 and carrying a circular array of symbols 54 each representing one of the time zones currently used in the world.
- the first window 51 is used in combination with the display of the standard time of a time zone, which is also the winter time of this time zone if there is one summer time in the territory considered.
- the watch includes a calendar display 55 and a moon phase indicator 56 that are not part of the invention described here, but the date indication can provide useful information in combination with one of the time displays and the time zone indicator.
- the place symbols 54 applied to the ring of places 53 comprise twenty-four main symbols, mutually spaced at an angle of 15 °, representing an offset of one hour.
- symbols 54 are here formed of three letters constituting a code of a well known place (city, airport, island), characterizing the time zone situation on the globe.
- LAX is the IATA code of Los Angeles International Airport.
- Additional symbols 54a are interposed between the main symbols, with an angular deviation of 7.5 ° with respect to one of them, to represent intermediate time zones in which the time difference with respect to UTC is one half hour plus a whole number of hours.
- additional symbols 54a those seen in the figure 4 represent the respective spindles of Iran (THR), Afghanistan (KBL), India (DEL), Vietnamese (MYA), Central Australia (DRW), Norfolk Island (NLK) and the Marquesas Islands (MAQ).
- other additional symbols 54b are interposed between the main symbols, with an angular deviation of 3.75 ° with respect to one of them, to represent intermediate time zones in which the time shift legal compared to UTC is one or three quarters of an hour plus a whole number of hours.
- these additional symbols 54b we see in the figure 4 those representing the Nepal UTC-5: 45 spindle (KTM), and the Chatham Islands (CHI) UTC + 12: 45 spindle.
- a support 58 incorporated in the ring 53 is provided with notches 59 in which can engage a roller 65 of a jumper 60 pushed by a spring 61.
- the support 58 further comprises a toothing 62 to ninety-six teeth, for rotating the ring 53 in steps of 3 , 75 ° corresponding to an offset of a quarter of an hour, this step being also the module of the differences between the symbols 54 and between the notches 59.
- repeated presses on this pusher allow the user to manually rotate the ring of places 53 to display the desired symbol 54 in any of the windows 51 and 52.
- the second time display 44 there are conventional elements of the second time display 44, namely the hour wheel 66, the minute wheel 67 and the timer wheel 68 connecting these two wheels.
- these elements are driven from the movement by means of a minute wheel 70 coupled to the wheel of the first time display 40 and provided with spring catches 71 capable of snapping into notches. 72 of the wheel 67.
- the angular pitch between the notches 72 corresponds to the smallest fraction of an hour between the time zones indicated by the ring 53, so a quarter of an hour in the present case, corresponding to a quarter turn of the minutes wheel 67.
- setting the time of the first time display 40 rotates the minute handwheel 70 and with it the wheel 67, thus simultaneously sets the second time display 44.
- the figure 2 also shows a second manual time-setting device 74, which the user actuates manually by the ring gear 32 fixed to a control rod 75 of conventional construction, with a sliding pinion 76 which engages with a pinion gear.
- time setting 77 when the crown 32 is pulled.
- the pinion 77 drives an intermediate wheel 78 which is engaged with an intermittent mechanism 79 comprising a wheel 80 secured to a switching wheel 81.
- the periphery thereof has four toothed sectors 82 each comprising a quarter of the number of teeth of the minute wheel 67, to drive it in steps of a quarter of a turn.
- the mobile 70 is retained by the first time display, so that the notches 72 move relative to the pawls 71 and engage every quarter hour of jet lag .
- a wheel of switching 86 having four teeth spaced to drive gear 63 intermittently, and a star 87 with four branches.
- the jumper 60 cooperates with the star 87 to produce two effects when its roller 65 engages in one of the notches of the ring places 53: give on the ring 32 a snap sensation each time a symbol 54 is located in front of one of the windows 51 and 52, and on the other hand holds the device 74 in stop positions where the intermittently moving mechanisms 79 and 84 are decoupled from the driven members 67 and 63 and prevent therefore that these bodies 67 and 63 can drive the intermediate wheel 78 and therefore the other body. This is due to the fact that, in the four stop positions determined by the jumper 60, the teeth of the wheel 86 remain out of reach of the teeth of the pinion 63, just as the toothed sectors 82 remain out of reach of the teeth of the minute wheel 67.
- each of the two mechanisms with intermittent movement transmits the movement only from the ring 32 and the intermediate wheel 78. Thanks to these decoupling, the actuation of the pusher 34 does not alter the time displays 44 and 40, and the joint time setting of the two time displays by means of the first ring 31 does not change anything in the time zone indicator 50.
- a time-setting mechanism similar to that of an ordinary watch is operated to set the first time display 40 to the home time, for example 8:10 according to the figure 3 .
- said mechanism acts in the same way on the second time display 44, which will take a position depending on its initial state. The crown 31 can then be pushed back.
- both the second time display 44 and the ring of the places 53 are rotated and the passage is sensed 59 each.
- timezone symbol 54 arrives just in front of one of the windows 51 and 52.
- the wearer of the watch travels to a country in the same time zone as Moscow (MOW).
- MOW By pulling the crown 32 and rotating it in the direction corresponding to an eastward trip, it moves the second time display 44 and the location ring 53 together to bring the MOW symbol behind the top window 52, if daylight saving time currently applies in the country of destination, or otherwise behind the lower window 51 as is the case in the figure 6 .
- Display 44 advanced exactly two hours in this case.
- the example of figure 1 represents a similar operation in the case where the traveler goes to Norfolk Island, located in the southern hemisphere. It is assumed that summer time is then in effect. The corresponding symbol NLK must therefore be brought behind the upper window 52.
- the second time display indicates 19:40, the time difference with the winter time of Central Europe (FRA time zone) being then 10 hours 30 minutes plus 1 hour for daylight saving time on Norfolk Island.
- this time zone watch is both versatile and easy to use.
- the use of two separate time displays 40 and 44 with two hands each makes it possible to read the two times in a precise and unambiguous manner, and on the other hand the manual control means allow, by simple manipulations, display the time of any place in the world and make time zone changes taking into account daylight saving time and hemispheric changes, if any.
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La présente invention concerne une montre à affichage analogique comportant un premier affichage horaire pour un premier fuseau horaire, associé à un premier dispositif de mise à l'heure, un second affichage horaire pour un second fuseau horaire, associé à un second dispositif manuel de mise à l'heure, et un indicateur de fuseau horaire comportant au moins un index et un anneau des lieux pourvu de symboles de lieux qui représentent des fuseaux horaires, l'anneau des lieux étant rotatif en regard dudit index ou vice-versa, le premier dispositif manuel de mise à l'heure étant capable de mettre à l'heure simultanément le premier et le second affichage horaire, et le second dispositif de mise à l'heure étant capable faire tourner ensemble pas à pas le second affichage horaire et l'indicateur de fuseau horaire sans modifier l'état du premier affichage horaire.The present invention relates to an analog display watch having a first time display for a first time zone, associated with a first time setting device, a second time display for a second time zone, associated with a second manual setting device. at time, and a time zone indicator having at least one index and a ring of places provided with place symbols which represent time zones, the ring of locations being rotatable next to said index or vice versa, the first manual time-setting device being capable of simultaneously setting the first and second time displays simultaneously, and the second time-setting device being able to rotate the second time display together step by step and time zone indicator without changing the state of the first time display.
On trouve une description d'une montre de ce genre dans le brevet
Avec cette construction, lorsqu'on fait afficher la même heure par les deux aiguilles des heures, c'est toujours le même fuseau horaire (celui d'origine) qui est indiqué par l'anneau des lieux. Si l'on voulait que l'utilisateur puisse changer le fuseau horaire d'origine, il faudrait ajouter une possibilité de débrayage entre les deux aiguilles des heures. D'autre part, avec l'affichage concentrique de deux heures différentes, l'utilisateur risque de se tromper dans la lecture.With this construction, when the same hour is displayed by the two hour hands, it is always the same time zone (the original one) which is indicated by the ring of places. If we wanted the user to be able to change the original time zone, we would have to add a possibility of disengagement between the two hour hands. On the other hand, with the concentric display of two different hours, the user may be wrong in reading.
Les passages de l'heure d'hiver à l'heure d'été et vice versa posent aussi un problème lorsqu'ils n'ont pas lieu en même temps dans les deux fuseaux horaires considérés, car il faut alors modifier spécialement le décalage entre les deux affichages horaires, et ceci en conservant la même indication de lieu. En particulier, ce problème se présente chaque fois que l'un des deux lieux considérés se trouve dans l'hémisphère nord et l'autre dans l'hémisphère sud. Donc pour cette raison aussi, il est souhaitable d'avoir des moyens de mise à l'heure ou de correction qui offrent une plus grande liberté de manipulation, en permettant d'effectuer les manoeuvres courantes aussi simplement que possible.The transition from winter time to summer time and vice versa is also a problem when they do not take place at the same time in the two time zones considered, since the difference between both time displays, and this while maintaining the same location indication. In particular, this problem arises whenever one of the two places considered is in the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere. Therefore for this reason too, it is desirable to have means of time setting or correction that offer greater freedom of manipulation, allowing to perform the current maneuvers as simply as possible.
Un problème supplémentaire dans ce genre de montres est dû à des fuseaux horaires dont le décalage par rapport au Temps universel coordonné (UTC) n'est pas un multiple entier d'une heure. Par exemple, l'heure officielle de certains pays ou territoires est fixée avec des pas d'une demi-heure (par exemple en Inde, en Iran, à Terre-Neuve, au Venezuela, etc.), voire d'un quart d'heure (Népal) en regard des 24 fuseaux horaires classiques. Il est donc souhaitable de pouvoir indiquer facilement l'heure de tels fuseaux horaires au moyen du second affichage horaire, sans que l'utilisateur soit astreint à des manipulations plus compliquées que pour un fuseau horaire classique. Il a été prévu, dans le brevet
A cause des problèmes susmentionnés, l'utilisation de la plupart des montres actuelles affichant l'heure de deux fuseaux horaires n'est pratique que dans certaines situations standard et devient trop compliquée dans les autres cas.Because of the aforementioned problems, the use of most current watches displaying the time of two time zones is practical only in certain standard situations and becomes too complicated in other cases.
La présente invention vise à créer une montre apte à afficher simultanément et clairement les heures de deux fuseaux horaires, en facilitant les manipulations requises pour les changements d'heure et/ou de fuseau horaire. Un but particulier est de permettre à l'utilisateur de tenir compte des heures d'été et d'hiver pour chacun des deux lieux considérés, de façon à introduire le décalage horaire correct entre les deux affichages de l'heure.The present invention aims to create a watch able to display simultaneously and clearly the hours of two time zones, facilitating the manipulations required for time changes and / or time zone. A particular goal is to allow the user to take into account the summer and winter times for each of the two locations, so as to introduce the correct time difference between the two displays of time.
A cet effet, il est prévu une montre du genre indiqué en préambule ci-dessus, caractérisée en ce qu'elle comporte, en plus des premier et second dispositifs de mise à l'heure, un correcteur manuel de lieu, capable de faire tourner pas à pas l'anneau des lieux sans modifier l'état du premier et du second affichage de l'heure.For this purpose, there is provided a watch of the type indicated in the preamble above, characterized in that it comprises, in addition to the first and second time-setting devices, a manual corrector place, able to rotate Step by step through the ring of places without changing the state of the first and second time displays.
Ainsi, il est possible de changer aisément l'indication du fuseau horaire sans changer les affichages de l'heure, notamment lorsque les deux affichages de l'heure sont mis sur la même heure. Une importante conséquence pratique est qu'à partir de cette position, après avoir amené l'indication correcte du fuseau horaire d'origine en utilisant le correcteur de lieu s'il le fallait, il suffit d'agir sur le second dispositif de mise à l'heure jusqu'à ce que l'indicateur de fuseau horaire indique le second fuseau voulu, et l'heure du second fuseau sera alors automatiquement affichée.Thus, it is possible to change the time zone indication easily without changing the time displays, especially when both time displays are set to the same time. An important practical consequence is that from this position, after having brought the correct indication of the original time zone using the location corrector if it were necessary, it is sufficient to act on the second setting device. the time until the time zone indicator indicates the second time zone, and the time of the second time zone will be automatically displayed.
Selon un mode de réalisation préféré de l'invention, l'indicateur de fuseau horaire comporte deux index, décalés angulairement de 1/24 de tour, de sorte que lorsque le symbole d'un fuseau horaire déterminé se trouve en regard du premier de ces index, le second affichage de l'heure indique l'heure normale ou d'hiver, tandis que lorsque le même symbole se trouve en regard du second index, le second affichage de l'heure indique l'heure d'été du même fuseau horaire, le cas échéant. De préférence, c'est l'anneau des lieux qui est rotatif, tandis que lesdits premier et second index sont des guichets ménagés dans le cadran servant aux affichages horaires. On verra plus loin comment la présence de deux index ou guichets résout aisément les problèmes créés par l'heure d'été.According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the time zone indicator comprises two indexes, angularly offset by 1/24 of a turn, so that when the symbol of a given time zone is next to the first of these index, the second time display shows the time normal or winter, while when the same symbol is next to the second index, the second time display shows daylight saving time in the same time zone, if applicable. Preferably, it is the ring places that is rotatable, while said first and second indexes are counters in the dial for hourly displays. We will see later how the presence of two indexes or counters easily resolves the problems created by daylight saving time.
D'autres particularités et avantages de l'invention apparaîtront ci-dessous dans la description d'un mode de réalisation actuellement préféré, présenté à titre d'exemple non limitatif en référence aux dessins annexés.Other features and advantages of the invention will appear below in the description of a presently preferred embodiment, presented by way of non-limiting example with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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figure 1 est une vue schématique d'une montre-bracelet selon l'invention, lorsqu'elle affiche l'heure pour deux fuseaux horaires décalés mutuellement de onze heures et demie.Thefigure 1 is a schematic view of a wristwatch according to the invention, when it displays the time for two time zones offset by eleven and a half hours mutually. -
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figure 2 est une vue en plan partiellement coupée du disque des lieux, associé à un correcteur de lieu et un dispositif de mise à l'heure dans la montre de lafigure 1 .Thefigure 2 is a partially cut plan view of the location disk, associated with a location corrector and a time-setting device in the watch of thefigure 1 . -
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figures 3 à 6 représentent différents états de l'affichage au cours de manoeuvres effectuées sur la montre de lafigure 1 .TheFigures 3 to 6 represent different states of the display during maneuvers performed on the watch of thefigure 1 .
En référence à la
Pour afficher l'heure d'un premier fuseau horaire, en général celui du domicile de l'utilisateur de la montre, il est prévu un premier affichage horaire 40, comportant une aiguille des minutes 42 et une aiguille des heures 41 faisant un tour en vingt-quatre heures en regard d'un tour d'heures correspondant 43 qui est décentré sur le cadran 36. Pour afficher l'heure d'un second fuseau horaire, en général celui où l'utilisateur de la montre se trouve ou se rend, il est prévu un second affichage horaire 44, comportant une aiguille centrale des minutes 46 et une aiguille centrale des heures 45 faisant un tour en douze heures en regard d'un tour d'heures traditionnel 47 centré dans le cadran 36, ce qui correspond au mode d'affichage habituel et permet donc une lecture rapide et sûre. Ce second affichage horaire 44 comprend en outre un indicateur jour/nuit 48 comportant, par exemple, une aiguille 49 couplée à l'aiguille 46 par un engrenage de façon à faire un tour en vingt-quatre heures. Les deux affichages horaires 40 et 44 sont entraînés par le mouvement d'horlogerie logé dans la boîte 30. Ce mouvement pourrait entraîner aussi une aiguille des secondes, ajoutée à l'un ou l'autre des affichages horaires.To display the time of a first time zone, in general that of the home of the user of the watch, there is provided a
Un indicateur de fuseau horaire 50 comporte deux guichets 51 et 52 ménagés dans le cadran 36 et décalés angulairement de 1/24 de tour par rapport au centre du cadran, pour laisser voir deux secteurs également décalés sur un anneau des lieux 53 rotatif, représenté en partie dans la
D'autre part, la montre comporte un affichage de calendrier 55 et un indicateur de phase de lune 56 qui ne font pas partie de l'invention décrite ici, mais l'indication de la date peut donner des informations utiles en combinaison avec l'un des affichages horaires et l'indicateur de fuseau horaire.On the other hand, the watch includes a
En référence à la
Afin de maintenir par encliquetage l'anneau des lieux 53 dans toutes les positions respectives que les symboles 54 (y compris 54a et 54b) peuvent prendre en face des guichets 51 et 52, un support 58 incorporé à l'anneau 53 est pourvu de crans 59 dans lesquels peut s'engager un galet 65 d'un sautoir 60 poussé par un ressort 61. Le support 58 comporte en outre une denture 62 à quatre-vingt-seize dents, permettant de faire tourner l'anneau 53 par pas de 3,75° correspondant à un décalage d'un quart d'heure, ce pas étant aussi le module des écarts entre les symboles 54 et entre les crans 59. Un pignon 63 à huit dents, retenu légèrement par un ressort-sautoir 64, est engagé en permanence dans la denture 62 et peut pivoter d'un pas à la fois sous l'action du poussoir de correcteur 34 mentionné en référence à la
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La
D'autre part, la roue intermédiaire 78 et reliée au pignon 63 par un second mécanisme à mouvement intermittent 84 ayant une roue 85 en prise permanente avec la roue 78. Sur la roue 85 sont fixées une roue de commutation 86, ayant quatre dents espacées pour entraîner le pignon 63 par intermittence, et une étoile 87 à quatre branches. Le sautoir 60 coopère avec l'étoile 87 pour produire deux effets quand son galet 65 s'engage dans l'un des crans de l'anneau des lieux 53 : donner sur la couronne 32 une sensation d'encliquetage chaque fois qu'un symbole de lieu 54 se trouve en face d'un des guichets 51 et 52, et d'autre part maintenir le dispositif 74 dans des positions d'arrêt où les mécanismes à mouvement intermittent 79 et 84 sont découplés des organes menés 67 et 63 et empêchent donc que ces organes 67 et 63 puissent entraîner la roue intermédiaire 78 et donc l'autre organe. Ceci est dû au fait que, dans les quatre positions d'arrêt déterminées par le sautoir 60, les dents de la roue 86 restent hors d'atteinte des dents du pignon 63, de même que les secteurs dentés 82 restent hors d'atteinte de la denture de la roue des minutes 67. En d'autres termes, chacun des deux mécanismes à mouvement intermittent ne transmet le mouvement qu'à partir de la couronne 32 et la roue intermédiaire 78. Grâce à ces découplages, l'actionnement du poussoir 34 n'altère pas les affichages horaires 44 et 40, et la mise à l'heure conjointe des deux affichages horaires au moyen de la première couronne 31 ne change rien dans l'indicateur de fuseau horaire 50.On the other hand, the
Les manoeuvres de mise à l'heure sur la montre décrite ci-dessus sont les suivantes. En se référant aux
En faisant tourner la couronne 31 dans une position tirée, on actionne un mécanisme de mise à l'heure semblable à celui d'une montre ordinaire, pour mettre à l'heure du domicile le premier affichage horaire 40, par exemple 8:10 selon la
En tirant la couronne 32 et en la faisant tourner dans un sens ou dans l'autre, on fait tourner à la fois le second affichage horaire 44 et l'anneau des lieux 53 et l'on sent le passage d'un cran 59 chaque fois qu'un symbole 54 de fuseau horaire arrive juste en face d'un des guichets 51 et 52. Pour ce réglage initial, on va mettre le second affichage horaire 44 à la même heure que le premier, en tenant compte de l'indicateur jour/nuit 48, ce qui donne l'état représenté en
Il convient alors de faire tourner l'anneau des lieux 53 par des pressions répétées sur le poussoir 34 jusqu'à ce que le symbole 54 du fuseau horaire du domicile (ici FRA pour Frankfurt) prenne place dans l'un des guichets, à savoir le guichet supérieur 52 quand on est à l'heure d'été ou le guichet inférieur 51 quand on est à l'heure d'hiver ou normale, comme c'est le cas dans la
Supposons que le porteur de la montre parte en voyage vers un pays du même fuseau horaire que Moscou (MOW). En tirant la couronne 32 et en la faisant tourner dans le sens qui correspond à un voyage vers l'est, il fait avancer ensemble le second affichage horaire 44 et l'anneau des lieux 53 pour amener le symbole MOW derrière le guichet supérieur 52, si l'heure d'été s'applique actuellement dans le pays de destination, ou sinon derrière le guichet inférieur 51 comme c'est le cas dans la
Au vu de la description qui précède, un homme du métier comprendra que cette montre à fuseaux horaires est à la fois polyvalente et facile d'emploi. D'une part, l'utilisation des deux affichage horaires séparés 40 et 44 à deux aiguilles chacun permet de lire les deux temps de manière précise et non ambiguë, et d'autre part les moyens manuels de commande permettent, par des manipulations simples, d'afficher l'heure de n'importe quel lieu du monde et d'effectuer les changements de fuseau horaire en tenant compte de l'heure d'été et des changements d'hémisphère, le cas échéant.In view of the above description, one skilled in the art will understand that this time zone watch is both versatile and easy to use. On the one hand, the use of two separate time displays 40 and 44 with two hands each makes it possible to read the two times in a precise and unambiguous manner, and on the other hand the manual control means allow, by simple manipulations, display the time of any place in the world and make time zone changes taking into account daylight saving time and hemispheric changes, if any.
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caractérisée en ce qu'elle comporte en outre un correcteur manuel de lieu (34, 63), capable de faire tourner pas à pas l'anneau des lieux (53) sans modifier l'état du premier et du second affichage horaire (40 et 44).Analog display watch having a first time display (40) for a first time zone, associated with a first time setting device (31), a second time display (44) for a second time zone, associated with a second time zone manual time setting device (33, 74), and a time zone indicator (50) having at least one index (51) and one location ring (53) provided with place symbols (54) which represent time zones, the location ring being rotatable next to said index or vice versa, the first manual time-setting device being capable of simultaneously setting the first and second time displays (40 and 44) simultaneously; and the second time-setting device being capable of rotating the second time display (44) and the time zone indicator (50) step-by-step together without changing the state of the first time display (40),
characterized in that it further comprises a manual place corrector (34, 63) capable of rotating the ring of places (53) without changing the state of the first and second time displays (40 and 44).
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