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EP3757683A1
EP3757683A1 EP19183410.0A EP19183410A EP3757683A1 EP 3757683 A1 EP3757683 A1 EP 3757683A1 EP 19183410 A EP19183410 A EP 19183410A EP 3757683 A1 EP3757683 A1 EP 3757683A1
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diving
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Marc Alexander HAYEK
Laurent BALLESTA
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Blancpain SA
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Priority to EP19183410.0A priority Critical patent/EP3757683A1/fr
Priority to US17/621,006 priority patent/US12117776B2/en
Priority to KR1020217040789A priority patent/KR20220007693A/ko
Priority to EP20726496.1A priority patent/EP3990988A1/fr
Priority to JP2021574246A priority patent/JP7401563B2/ja
Priority to PCT/EP2020/064449 priority patent/WO2020259936A1/fr
Priority to CN202080047118.3A priority patent/CN114072735A/zh
Publication of EP3757683A1 publication Critical patent/EP3757683A1/fr
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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
    • G04B47/00—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece
    • G04B47/06—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece with attached measuring instruments, e.g. pedometer, barometer, thermometer or compass
    • G04B47/066—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece with attached measuring instruments, e.g. pedometer, barometer, thermometer or compass with a pressure sensor
    • 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
    • G04B47/00—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece
    • G04B47/06—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece with attached measuring instruments, e.g. pedometer, barometer, thermometer or compass
    • 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
    • G04B47/00—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece
    • G04B47/06—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece with attached measuring instruments, e.g. pedometer, barometer, thermometer or compass
    • G04B47/061—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece with attached measuring instruments, e.g. pedometer, barometer, thermometer or compass calculating scales for indicating relationship between quantity and time
    • 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
    • G04B37/08—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits
    • 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 invention relates to a diving watch for providing a diver with an indication of the instantaneous value of his diving time.
  • Watches which provide a diver with information relating to his dive time are already known. However, such watches do not make it possible to establish in a direct way, that is to say without the realization on the part of the diver of a mental calculation or even of a reasoning from data of duration visible on these watches. , the diving time when it is greater than one hour.
  • One of the aims of the invention is to improve the safety of the diver during a dive by making it easier for the latter to become aware of information relating to the duration of this dive.
  • the object of the present invention is to respond to this demand by providing a diving watch comprising a first device for displaying the current time and a second device for displaying a dive duration, said second device comprising a hand. dedicated to the indication of a dive time and a rotating bezel provided with a visible face comprising a time scale comprising time graduations, said bezel being configured to cooperate with said dedicated hand by displaying an instantaneous value of the duration of diving.
  • the present invention provides a diving watch which provides the diver with indications relating to the diving time and this, by seeing at a glance, the hand dedicated to the indication of a duration. dive designate a temporal graduation of the time scale included on the visible face of the rotating bezel. In doing so, the diver is thus assured of performing this dive in optimum conditions, thus being able to manage his oxygen consumption or even, if necessary, by being able to perform decompression stops, which improves his safety.
  • the present invention proceeds from the original idea which consists in equipping a diving watch 1 with an analogue display device 3 of a diving time allowing the diver to see the time at a glance. elapsed time of the dive that he is in the process of performing and, if necessary, of returning to the surface or of continuing this dive depending, for example, on the state of his oxygen reserves.
  • the diving watch 1 according to the invention therefore makes it possible to increase the safety of the diver.
  • the figures 1a to 1b are perspective views of a diving watch 1 according to one embodiment of the invention. Designated as a whole by the general reference numeral 1, this watch 1 is of the conventional type and may be a mechanical or electromechanical watch.
  • a sealed case 14 which may, for example, be of the metallic type comprising a caseband 13 in which a back is screwed or held by friction.
  • the case 14 comprises lugs provided for attaching a bracelet and contains in particular a watch movement 17 visible on the figure 2 as well as a dial 5.
  • a dial 5 has on its outer perimeter hour graduations 16 such as appliques and / or hour markers, conventionally representing hours and minutes.
  • This case 14 is closed on its upper face by a crystal, carrying a rotating / rotating bezel 10 on its periphery, the bezel 10 being mounted to be movable in rotation relative to the middle part 13.
  • This rotation of the bezel 10 is preferably achievable in a manner unidirectional in the counterclockwise direction 23.
  • external control members are provided in the form for example of a crown and / or of at least one lateral pusher.
  • This watch 1 comprises a first display device 2 of the current time.
  • This display device 2 can be analog or digital.
  • this display device 2 is preferably analog and is formed by the dial 5 and a hand comprising an hour hand 7, a minute hand 6 and a seconds hand 8.
  • These hands 6 , 7, 8 are each conventionally mounted at one of their ends on a corresponding rotation shaft arranged in the center of dial 5 in order to move above this dial 5. It will be noted that the hourly graduations 16 and all or part of a visible face of these needles 6, 7, 8 may have a similar color.
  • the hourly graduations 16 and all or part of a visible face of these hands 6, 7, 8 may comprise a luminescent material having the property of emitting, once immersed in darkness, a light of a similar color.
  • This material may be a material known under the trade marks of “LumiNova®” or “Super-LumiNova®”. It will be noted that the material “Super-LumiNova®” thus designates a photoluminescent material with phosphorescent properties. In the dark, this material restores the light stored in the form, for example, of a blue, green or red glow. This material is applied to these needles 6, 7, 8 and the hourly graduations 16. Such a material gradually loses its phosphorescence in the dark, but recharges automatically under light.
  • This watch 1 also includes a second display device 3 which is necessarily analog.
  • This second device 3 comprises the rotating bezel 10 and a dedicated hand 4 for indicating the dive time.
  • This hand 4 is qualified as a “dedicated” hand because it is intended solely and specifically for establishing information relating to the duration of the dive, so it does not participate in the performance of any other function of the watch 1.
  • This dedicated hand 4 is mounted at one of its ends on a corresponding rotation shaft arranged in the center of the dial 5, in particular in the center of the bezel 10.
  • the bezel 10 comprises a visible face 9 on which is shown a time scale. 11, comprising temporal graduations, and defining a time interval strictly greater than one hour.
  • the temporal graduations comprise a positioning index 12 of said bezel 10 relative to the dedicated hand 4, this index 12 defining the start and the end of this time scale 11.
  • the time interval is three hours and this time scale 11 is then graduated from five minutes to five minutes. It will be understood that in other variants this time interval could be in a non-limiting and non-exhaustive manner of two, four, five or even six hours.
  • the dedicated hand 4 cooperates with the time scale 11 to give the diver an instantaneous indication of the duration of the dive already carried out / elapsed.
  • the bezel 10, including this time scale 11, is configured to cooperate with this dedicated hand 4 for an analog display of an instantaneous value of the duration of the dive.
  • the dedicated hand 4 indicates a temporal graduation of the time scale 11, a graduation which includes the hour and the minutes relating to the duration of the dive.
  • the end of the dedicated needle 4 must, in order to cover this time scale 11, starting from the positioning index 12 until reaching this same index 12, describe an angle of 360 degrees.
  • the temporal graduations and the dedicated hand 4 comprise a luminescent material having the property of emitting once the latter have been plunged into darkness, a light of a similar color.
  • This material may correspond to a material known under the trade marks of “LumiNova®” or “Super-LumiNova®”.
  • first and second devices 2, 3 are two separate display devices 2, 3 because they contribute to transmitting to the diver two different information, one on the current time and the other on the duration of a dive and this , from different components of watch 1, the switch and the dial 5 for the first device 2 and the dedicated hand 4 and the bezel 10 for the second device 3.
  • the dedicated hand 4 moves three times faster than the minute hand 6 of the first device 2 and four times slower than the hour hand 7
  • the movement 17 illustrated on the figures 2 to 4 comprises a first toothed wheel 20 able to perform a complete rotation according to the time interval of the time scale 11 defined on the bezel 10 and which is here three hours.
  • This first toothed wheel 20 which is arranged in this movement 17 above an hour wheel 21, is included on a rotation shaft on which is fixed by driving the dedicated needle 4.
  • This first toothed wheel 20 generates a second toothed wheel 19 mounted on a shaft fixed to a timer wheel 18 of movement 17.
  • the hours wheel 21 engages a pinion 22 included on the shaft of the timer wheel 18.
  • Watch 1 also comprises a device for locking the positioning of the bezel 10 relative to the dedicated hand 4.
  • a locking device is of a design known from the state of the art and it is therefore not necessary to describe it further here. It will be noted that this locking device is designed to prevent inadvertent rotation of the bezel 10, which would risk falsifying the information relating to the diving time resulting from the cooperation between the dedicated hand 4 and the bezel 10.
  • the invention also relates to a method for estimating a dive time from this watch 1.
  • the method then comprises a step of arranging the positioning index. 12 included on the bezel 10 opposite the end of dedicated needle 4 as can be seen on the figure 1b .
  • the bezel 10 the index 12 of which is initially positioned on the clockwise graduation relative to the number twelve for twelve hours in an example illustrated in FIG. 1a, is then actuated so as to perform a counterclockwise rotation 23 until this index 12 is positioned opposite the dedicated needle 4.
  • this method provides a step for determining the duration of the dive.
  • this step when the diver wishes to have the instantaneous value of the duration of this dive, it is just necessary to visually identify the graduation of the time scale 11 indicated by the end of the dedicated needle. 4. For example on the figure 1c , this instantaneous value corresponds to a dive time of two and twenty-five hours.
  • the invention makes it possible to provide the diver with indications relating to the dive time and this, by seeing at a glance, the designation by the dedicated hand 4 of a temporal graduation of the time scale. 11 included on the visible face 9 of the rotating bezel 10.

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EP19183410.0A EP3757683A1 (fr) 2019-06-28 2019-06-28 Montre de plongée
US17/621,006 US12117776B2 (en) 2019-06-28 2020-05-25 Diving watch
KR1020217040789A KR20220007693A (ko) 2019-06-28 2020-05-25 잠수 시계
EP20726496.1A EP3990988A1 (fr) 2019-06-28 2020-05-25 Montre de plongee
JP2021574246A JP7401563B2 (ja) 2019-06-28 2020-05-25 ダイバーズウォッチ
PCT/EP2020/064449 WO2020259936A1 (fr) 2019-06-28 2020-05-25 Montre de plongee
CN202080047118.3A CN114072735A (zh) 2019-06-28 2020-05-25 潜水表

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US12117776B2 (en) 2024-10-15
KR20220007693A (ko) 2022-01-18
EP3990988A1 (fr) 2022-05-04
WO2020259936A1 (fr) 2020-12-30

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