G04B 19/22
Arrangements for indicating different local apparent times
Official title: Arrangements for indicating different local apparent times; Universal time pieces {(indicating by means of numbers or signs disposed on moving devices G04B19/20; illumination of dials or hands G04B19/30; combination with a terrestial globe in general G04B47/02; electronic time-zone watches G04G9/0076)}
G04B19/22 (Arrangements for indicating different local apparent times) appears on 193 US grants and 159 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G04B- Granted patents
- 193
- Published applications
- 159
- Assignees
- 75
- Inventors
- 306
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 3 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G04B 19/223With rotary disc, rotary bezel, or rotary dial78
- G04B 19/23By means of additional hands or additional pairs of hands58
- G04B 19/226Three-dimensionally shaped27
- G04B 19/221Mechanisms for correcting the hours hand only, i.e. independently for minutes and19
- G04B 19/228With linear time graduation6
Recent patents
- Timepiece including a display member for displaying a local time HT and a display member for displaying a GMT time18 Aug 2026US 12,710,727 B2Manufacture D'Horlogerie Audemars Piguet SA
- Animation mechanism for a timepiece5 May 2026US 12,619,200 B2Greubel Forsey S. A.
- Horological switchable display mechanism10 Feb 2026US 12,547,119 B2Glashütter Uhrenbetrieb GmbH
- Device enabling a timepiece movement to display the time in a predefined time zone23 Dec 2025US 12,504,720 B2La Montre Hermes S.A.
- Spring for a notching system and timepiece notching system28 Oct 2025US 12,455,536 B2Rolex SA
- Timepiece comprising a mechanism for displaying successive hours in a display zone6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227742 A1Manufacture D'Horlogerie Audemars Piguet SA
- Dial and timepiece25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177980 A1Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
- Watchcase with dual-function bezel18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169435 A1Certina S.A.
- Quick correction device with connecting rod for a horology movement21 May 2026US 2026/0140479 A1Montres Breguet S. A.
- Two time zone device for a timepiece movement9 Apr 2026US 2026/0099124 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Watch87US 4,945,521 AIWC International Watch Co. AG · 1990
- Wearable electronic device with multiple display functionality86US 7,113,450 B2Timex Group B. V. · 2006
- Universal clock having means for indicating zonal time in other global time zones80US 4,847,819 A1989
- Timepiece with date display including a running equation of time device66US 6,826,122 B2Frederic Piguet S.A. · 2004
- Timepiece with a universal time display46US 5,383,165 ACompagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A. · 1995