Method of manufacturing a watch component
AssigneeRolex SA
InventorsCarine Bienvenu, Patrice Nagel, Quoc-Hien Nguyen, Alexandra Roulet
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Abstract
Method of manufacturing a watch component (10) for a timepiece, wherein it comprises a first stage of manufacturing a watch component (10) comprising a first surface (1), in which there is arranged at least one recess (20), that is to say a surface recessed from the first surface (1), and wherein it comprises a second finishing stage the watch component, leading to a change in the surface condition, more particularly the roughness, more particularly measured by the parameters Ra and/or Str, and/or the gloss, of the first surface (1) but not of the at least one recess (20) or of a portion exclusively of this at least one recess (20).
Claims15
Method of manufacturing a watch component for a timepiece, the method comprising:
- manufacturing a first watch component comprising a first surface, at least one recess being arranged in the first surface, the recess comprising a surface recessed from the first surface, and
- performing a finishing operation on the first watch component in order to manufacture the watch component, leading to a change in surface condition, and/or gloss of the first surface but not of at least a portion of the at least one recess,
- wherein the finishing operation utilizes an abrasive mixture comprising media having a dimension and/or a geometry defined so as to prevent all contact by the media with at least one portion of the recess, or
- wherein the finishing operation utilizes an abrasive mixture comprising media having a dimension and/or a geometry defined so as to prevent all contact by the media with a portion of the recess positioned at a distance greater than a given distance d.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.