On-demand horological display mechanism
AssigneeMontres Breguet S.A.
InventorAlain Zaugg
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Abstract
On-demand horological display mechanism, including a plurality of primary mechanisms each capable of determining the value of a variable, and at least one actuator that can be maneuvered by a user for the selection of the display of the instantaneous values of a specific variable determined by one of the primary mechanisms, each display being performed by the cooperation of a moveable display including a hand or a disc, with a complementary display including at least one graduated index, where the display and/or the complementary display is common to all of the displays that the display mechanism may produce.
Claims17
An on-demand horological display mechanism, comprising:
- a plurality of primary mechanisms each capable of determining a value of a variable, and
- at least one actuator that can be maneuvered by a user for a selection of a display of an instantaneous value of a specific variable determined by one of said primary mechanisms,
- wherein each said display being performed by the cooperation of a moveable display including a hand or a disc, with a complementary display including at least one graduated index,
- wherein said moveable display or/and said complementary display is common to all of the displays of the instantaneous value of specific variables that said display mechanism may produce, where said complementary display includes a plurality of said graduated indexes each corresponding to the display of the value of a specific variable, and
- wherein, the display mechanism includes a window that is moveable above said complementary display so as to show, at a given moment, only one said graduated index for the user to view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.