Timepiece
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHajime Hirano, Kazunori Hoshino, Genta Kawabe
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Abstract
A timepiece provides a timepiece of a type in which a crown is wound to extend a reserve period, which includes a power reserve indicator provided at a rear surface and configured to display an amount of reserve, in which the crown is provided at a right side when a dial at a front surface is viewed from a direction normal to the dial in front view such that 12 o'clock is positioned upward, and various types of display are appropriately readable when the crown is provided at the right side when the rear surface is viewed from a direction normal to the rear surface in front view.
Claims10
A timepiece of a type in which a crown is wound to extend a reserve period, comprising:
- a power reserve indicator provided at a rear surface of the timepiece and configured to display an amount of the reserve period, the power reserve indicator including a plurality of numbers indicating the amount of the reserve period, wherein
- the crown is provided at a right side when a dial at a front surface of the timepiece is viewed from a direction normal to the dial in a front view such that 12 o'clock is positioned upward, and
- at least one of the plurality of numbers is in an upright orientation and is oriented toward 6 o'clock when the crown is provided at the right side when the rear surface is viewed from a direction normal to the rear surface in a front view.
A timepiece of a type in which a crown is wound to extend a reserve period, comprising:
- a power reserve indicator provided at a rear surface of the timepiece and configured to display an amount of the reserve period, the power reserve indicator including a plurality of numbers indicating the amount of the reserve period, wherein
- an upward-downward direction of the plurality of numbers at the rear surface is inverted relative to the upward-downward direction of a character of a dial at a front surface of the timepiece, and
- at least one of the plurality of numbers is in an upright orientation and is oriented toward 6 o'clock when a crown is provided at a right side when the rear surface is viewed from a direction normal to the rear surface in a front view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.