Device for rewinding and/or immobilizing a marine chronometer
AssigneeMontres Breguet S.A.
InventorsJerome Mace, Alain Zaugg
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Abstract
A marine chronometer includes a clock mounted on a support, for example mounted so that it can be inclined with respect to the support using a gimbal mounting, the clock including, inside a case, a mechanical clock movement driven by a barrel, and the clock also including a rewinding control member engaged with a rewinding geartrain for rewinding the barrel. The rewinding control member includes a rewinding control geartrain positioned on the outside of the clock, secured to a spindle passing through a wall of the case via a bearing, the through-spindle being engaged with the rewinding geartrain.
Claims10
A marine chronometer, comprising:
- a clock mounted on a support so that the clock is configured to be inclined with respect to the support by means of a gimbal mounting, the clock comprising, inside a case, a mechanical clock movement driven by a barrel, the clock also comprising a rewinding control member engaged with a rewinding geartrain for rewinding the barrel,
- wherein the rewinding control member comprises a rewinding control geartrain positioned on the outside of the clock, secured to a spindle passing through a wall of the case via a bearing, the spindle being engaged with the rewinding geartrain, and
- wherein the chronometer further comprises a coupling means comprising a coupling geartrain, the coupling means configured to move between:
- a coupling position where the rewinding control member of the clock is mechanically coupled to the coupling means, and
- a rest position where the rewinding control member is independent of the coupling means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.