EP3324250A1 - Zeitzonen-anzeigevorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP3324250A1
EP3324250A1 EP16199219.3A EP16199219A EP3324250A1 EP 3324250 A1 EP3324250 A1 EP 3324250A1 EP 16199219 A EP16199219 A EP 16199219A EP 3324250 A1 EP3324250 A1 EP 3324250A1
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Paulo Bravo
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Swatch Group Research and Development SA
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Priority to EP16199219.3A priority Critical patent/EP3324250A1/de
Priority to JP2019542781A priority patent/JP6746797B2/ja
Priority to KR1020197013999A priority patent/KR102250636B1/ko
Priority to EP17781148.6A priority patent/EP3542227B1/de
Priority to CN201780070646.9A priority patent/CN109964179B/zh
Priority to US16/348,750 priority patent/US11231685B2/en
Priority to PCT/EP2017/076364 priority patent/WO2018091214A1/fr
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G17/00—Structural details; Housings
    • G04G17/08—Housings
    • 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
    • G04B19/22—Arrangements for indicating different local apparent times; Universal time pieces
    • G04B19/223—Arrangements for indicating different local apparent times; Universal time pieces with rotary disc, rotary bezel, or rotary dial
    • 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
    • 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
    • G04B19/22—Arrangements for indicating different local apparent times; Universal 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
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/28—Adjustable guide marks or pointers for indicating determined points of time
    • G04B19/283—Adjustable guide marks or pointers for indicating determined points of time on rotatable rings, i.e. bezel
    • 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
    • G04B37/12—Cases for special purposes, e.g. watch combined with ring, watch combined with button
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G9/00—Visual time or date indication means
    • G04G9/0076—Visual time or date indication means in which the time in another time-zone or in another city can be displayed at will

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  • the invention relates to a timepiece equipped with a time zone indicator device for timepieces.
  • Watches for indicating the time in one or more different time zones have existed for a long time and generally include complicated mechanisms. Typically, these watches include an additional hand to indicate the time in another time zone chosen by the wearer, which is not practical to adjust and / or correct or set the time in case of stop the watch.
  • the document CH 685 584 attempt to remedy this problem by proposing a watch with an indicator of the hours planned to perform a turn in twelve hours and indicate the time under one of the time zones, and a minute indicator provided to perform a turn in one hour, and including a movement directly causing the minute indicator, and a rotating member indicative of at least two time zones and manually rotatable.
  • the movement is rotatably mounted in a box comprising, engaged between the movement and the time zone indicator member, a first gear train and a second gear train for moving the hour and minute hand when the movement is rotated.
  • a disadvantage of such a type of watch is that the mechanism is relatively complicated, especially for a mechanical watch. In addition, such an arrangement substantially increases the thickness of the watch, which affects the aesthetics of the latter. Finally, such a mechanism seems fragile and the slightest shock could disrupt it or damage it.
  • the invention particularly aims to overcome the various disadvantages of these known techniques.
  • an object of the invention is to provide a watch with a time zone display device allowing an intuitive and simplified change between the different time zones.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a watch with a time zone display device that is simple and inexpensive to implement.
  • a timepiece comprising at least one hour indicator, a minute indicator, a movement arranged to train the hour indicator and the minutes indicator, a dial, a flange, a crown and an indicator of at least one time zone, housed in a first box.
  • the first housing is rotatable in a second housing around an axis of rotation coinciding with the axis of rotation of the hours and minutes indicators, so that a rotation of the first housing in the direction Clockwise or counterclockwise from the second box allows you to choose a time zone and indicate the time of the chosen time zone.
  • the object of the present invention by its various functional and structural aspects described above, makes it possible to obtain a watch with a relatively simple time zone indicating mechanism while providing an easy and intuitive adjustment.
  • a timepiece with a time zone display device will now be described in the following with reference to Figures 1 to 6 .
  • the watch comprises a usual movement, fitted into a first casing 1, the casing comprising a dial 3 surrounded and surmounted by a flange 2, an ice surmounting the flange 2, and a collar 4 surrounding the ice to form a shoulder 40 on the upper circumference of the first case 1.
  • the nested movement can as well as being a mechanical movement that a quartz movement or electromechanical movement, the movement being arranged to cause an hours indicator 6 and a minute indicator 7.
  • the hour indicator 6 performs a turn of the dial in twelve hours
  • the hour indicator 6 performs a dial revolution in twenty-four hours.
  • the watch also comprises a second housing 10 having a lower portion 12 screwed to an upper portion 11, the upper portion comprising horns 110 to be able to attach a bracelet.
  • the first housing 1 is rotatably mounted in the second housing 10.
  • the horns can also be supported by the lower portion 12 of the second housing 10.
  • the first housing 1 comprises respectively on its upper part and on its lower part, a flange 4, 4 'and a shoulder 40,40', each assembly forming a peripheral annular flange arranged to cooperate with a circular opening formed in each of the parts upper 11 and lower 12 of the second housing 10.
  • the first housing 1 is thus maintained in the second housing 10 so as to allow only a rotation of the first housing 1 about an axis A coincides with the axis of rotation of the hour indicators 6 and minutes 7.
  • the first housing 1 includes sections 8 on its edge, each section 8 receiving a time zone.
  • the flange 2 which receives the different time zones, which may be twelve or twenty-four, for example.
  • the spindles are displayed on the bottom of the first housing 1, the bottom being visible through the lower part of the second housing 10.
  • each spindle includes a + or - sign so that the wearer can determine whether it is day or night in the selected spindle.
  • the indicator indicating the time zone must be integral and rotate with the first housing 1, the time displayed being that of the spindle at noon on the first housing 1.
  • the skilled person could add a marker on the fixed part, namely the second housing 10, to improve the reading.
  • a marker could for example be an inverted triangle, an arrow or a conventional index.
  • locking means are provided between the first housing 1 and the second housing 10. More specifically, the locking means comprise at least one ball pawl 41, arranged at the shoulder 40, 40 'of the first housing 1, this ball pawl 41 being arranged to cooperate with hemispherical holes 121 formed along the periphery of the lower and upper portions of the second housing 10. According to the embodiment shown, there are twelve holes 121 regularly distributed and spaced 30 ° so that a rotation of a notch corresponds to an offset of +/- 1 hour. In the case where the watch has a display of twenty-four hours, there are obviously twenty-four holes 121.
  • Such a spring blade device comprises a spring blade 42 disposed in grooves formed at the shoulders 40 and 40 'of the first housing 1, each groove having a stop 44 for keep the leaf spring 42 in place.
  • the spring blade 42 comprises at least one tooth 43 arranged to cooperate with grooves 122 formed in the upper and lower parts of the second housing 10.
  • the hour indicator 6 is formed by a transparent disk supporting a triangle 60 indicating the current time on the dial which bears no numeral for the hours.
  • Another disc forming the minute indicator 7 is mounted on the hour disc 6, the minute disc having an opening 70 showing the current minutes on the dial, the minutes being this time displayed on the dial 3 digitally .
  • the dial 3 comprises two portions, one without numerical indication for the hours, and the other with numerical indications for the minutes.
  • Such a display mode makes it possible to rotate the housing 1 without worrying about a shift of the minute indicator 7 during a change of time zone.
  • the second housing 10 comprises, at each horn 110, a hole 111 to allow the passage of the ring 5 during the rotation of the first housing 1 in the second housing 10.
  • the second housing is perforated on its parts lateral, upper and lower, so as to access the crown 5 easily.
  • the wearer of the watch wants to know the current time in a specific time zone he just turn the first box in the direction hourly or counterclockwise. For example, in the case where the carrier is in the London 100 time zone as shown in Figure 4a and 4b , and wish to display the current time in Moscow, it is enough for him to bring the indication of the time zone Moscow 101 at noon on the first case 1, which corresponds to three offsets and moves the crown 5 from three hours to 6 hours . The passage of the current time from one time zone to another is therefore greatly facilitated and simplified with this watch.
  • the bearer For any change in the time, for example to change from daylight saving time to winter time or vice versa, the bearer must position himself on the London time zone and then choose the time zone to display the chosen time of the spindle.

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EP16199219.3A EP3324250A1 (de) 2016-11-16 2016-11-16 Zeitzonen-anzeigevorrichtung
JP2019542781A JP6746797B2 (ja) 2016-11-16 2017-10-16 タイムゾーンインジケーターデバイス
KR1020197013999A KR102250636B1 (ko) 2016-11-16 2017-10-16 시간대 표시기 디바이스
EP17781148.6A EP3542227B1 (de) 2016-11-16 2017-10-16 Zeitzonen-anzeigevorrichtung
CN201780070646.9A CN109964179B (zh) 2016-11-16 2017-10-16 时区指示器装置
US16/348,750 US11231685B2 (en) 2016-11-16 2017-10-16 Time zone indicator device
PCT/EP2017/076364 WO2018091214A1 (fr) 2016-11-16 2017-10-16 Dispositif indicateur de fuseaux horaires

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CN109964179A (zh) 2019-07-02
JP2019533823A (ja) 2019-11-21
KR20190064643A (ko) 2019-06-10
WO2018091214A1 (fr) 2018-05-24
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