Horological display system
AssigneeRolex SA
InventorLudovic Zbylut
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Abstract
A system (100) for displaying time or time derivative information, in particular a measured time, the system including a limb (10) comprising at least one modifiable graphic element (20a-f) forming time or time derivative reference information, a member (1) for indicating the time or time derivative information in cooperation with the limb, a device (2, 8, 22, 71) for modifying the graphic element, and a device (3, 4, 34) for resetting, by action of a user, to a predetermined configuration, in particular for resetting to zero, the time or time derivative information displayed by cooperation of the indication member and of the limb.
Claims19
A system for displaying time or time derivative information, the system comprising:
- a limb comprising at least one modifiable graphic element forming time or time derivative reference information,
- a time or time derivative information indication member in cooperation with the limb,
- a device for modifying the at least one modifiable graphic element, and
- a device for resetting, by action of a user, to a predetermined configuration, the time or time derivative information displayed by cooperation of the indication member and of the limb,
- wherein the device for modifying the at least one modifiable graphic element comprises:
- a support having the at least one modifiable graphic element,
- an energy accumulator,
- a mechanism for transmitting energy to the accumulator in at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) as and when display of the time or time derivative information is incremented and (ii) upon the displacement of the indication member, and
- a mechanism for authorizing the movement of the support under the effect of energy supplied by the accumulator, when at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) the display of the time or time derivative information reaches a predetermined value and (ii) the indication member reaches a predetermined position,
- wherein the device for resetting to a predetermined configuration comprises a first element for resetting the indication member to a predetermined configuration and a second element for resetting the at least one modifiable graphic element to a predetermined configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.