Display device for a timepiece and timepiece comprising such a device
AssigneePatek Philippe SA Geneve
InventorsAnthony Krüttli, Nicolas Dehon
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Abstract
The display device is arranged in a timepiece which includes a counting wheel and a manual control mechanism which is arranged to permit cyclical starting, stopping and resetting of the counting wheel. The display device includes an indicating member, a unit for moving the indicating member into a first predefined position when the counting wheel is being reset, a unit for moving the indicating member into a second predefined position, different from the first predefined position, when the counting wheel is being started, and a unit for permitting the indicating member to be moved into a reading position following stopping of the counting wheel, the reading position being determined by the position of the counting wheel.
Claims19
A display device for a timepiece including a counting wheel and a manual control mechanism configured to permit cyclical starting, stopping and resetting of the counting wheel, the display device comprising:
- an indicating member;
- and
- a movement system configured to:
- allow the indicating member to be moved into a reading position following stopping of the counting wheel, the reading position being determined by a position of the counting wheel and
- move the indicating member to a first predefined position when the counting wheel is being reset, and to a second predefined position, different from the first predefined position, when the counting wheel is being started.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.