Watch winding and time-setting device
AssigneeThe Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
InventorsBaptiste Hinaux, Jérôme Favre
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Abstract
A device (1000) for the winding and time-setting of a watch (1) with an oscillating resonator (2), which includes: an automatic winding mechanism (304) for a mechanical or automatic watch, which includes at least one watch reception support (305), a viewing system (1002), a stoppage monitor (500) to observe the stoppage of a resonator (2), and a controller (900) arranged to identify the stoppage time displayed by the watch (1) in the stoppage position thereof, to compute the time remaining until a synchronization between the actual time indicated by the clock (1001) and the stoppage time, and, when the remaining time has elapsed, to activate the automatic winding mechanism (304) for rewinding the power storage device of the watch (1).
Claims16
A device (1000) for the winding and time-setting of a watch (1) comprising an oscillating resonator (2) arranged to generate an oscillation at a nominal frequency N0 and comprising a removable cap, of complementary internal profile to a state setting organ or to a rewinding organ or to an actuator (10), accessible to the user, comprised by said watch (1), said device (1000) comprising means for rewinding and correcting the state of said watch (1), comprising an automatic winding mechanism (304) for a mechanical or automatic watch which comprises at least one watch reception support (305), said device (1000) comprising state measurement means (303) for measuring the state of said watch (1) relative to a reference clock (1001) to which refer said state measurement means (303) which comprise a viewing system (1002), where said device (1000) comprises stoppage monitoring means (500) arranged to observe the stoppage or running of ft said oscillating resonator (2) of a watch (1), and control means (900) which are arranged, upon the observation of a stoppage by said stoppage monitoring means (500), to identify according to data transmitted by said state measurement means (303) the stoppage time displayed by said watch (1) in the stoppage position thereof, and to compute the time remaining until a synchronisation between the actual time indicated by said reference clock (1001) and said stoppage time, and, when said remaining time has elapsed, to activate said automatic winding mechanism (304) for rewinding the power storage means of said watch (1), wherein at least one said watch (1) comprises a removable watch cap, of complementary internal profile to a state setting organ or to a rewinding organ or to an actuator (10), accessible to the user, comprised by said watch (1), which removable cap is hinged and/or elastically deformable between a first presentation position where said removable cap is radially or frontally insertable on a state setting organ or on a rewinding organ or on an actuator (10), and a second gripping position where the removable cap is suitable for closing said state setting organ or said rewinding organ or said actuator (10) with longitudinal and/or radial gripping, and wherein said removable cap comprises external gripping means (11), arranged, in the second gripping position thereof, to allow the handling thereof in all the degrees of freedom.
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