Sympathetic timepiece assembly

A method for setting to a reference time of a sympathetic watch (200) by a sympathetic clock (100), with which said watch (200) forms a sympathetic assembly (1000) including a connection mechanism including at least two distinct transmission lines between said clock (100) and said watch (200) when said watch (200) is deposited in a receptacle (150) included in said clock (100), in a transfer position, said watch (200) including at least one resonator (10), and a display gear train and a finishing gear train, and, or else a stop mechanism (20) arranged to stop the operation of said resonator (10), and said watch (200) including at least one hour display (4) and one minute display (5), a reference position of which is defined, wherein one said watch (200) is used including a rack (823) meshed with an hour wheel (808) integral with said hour display of the watch (4) and carrying an hour cam (802) including a ratchet tooth notch, a pawl (801) which is bearingly held on said hour cam (802) by a pawl spring (8010), said rack (823) being arranged to click in the clockwise direction of said hour wheel (808), and being driven by a return spring (825), said watch (200) further including a rack pinion (824) or hour pinion, which rack pinion (824) being arranged to drive and coil said rack (823), which clicks with each tooth, during normal operation of said watch (200) when said watch (200) does not cooperate with said clock (100), said watch (200) further including a coupling mechanism (806) between the display gear train (805;

• 807;
• 808) and the finishing gear train (810), and wherein, at any time, the setting to a reference time of said watch (200) is performed by a cycle including three phases, comprising a first phase during which the placement in said reference position is triggered, by a first displacement of an interface between said clock (100) and said watch (200), the setting to a reference time of said displays (4;
• 5) of said watch (200) is performed, and said coupling mechanism (806) is uncoupled by said interface which actuates said coupling mechanism towards an uncoupled position which allows said rack (823) to drive an hour display and a minute display gear train of said watch (200) in the counter-clockwise direction, until said pawl (801) meets the ratchet tooth notch of said hour cam, a blocking corresponding to said reference display position, a second phase where the position of said displays (4;
• 5) is maintained for the time setting, and where the time-setting mechanism controlled by said clock (100) sets the time of said displays (4;
• 5) of said watch (200) in the clockwise direction to the exact time by recoiling said rack (801), and a third phase where, by a second displacement of said interface between said clock (100) and said watch (200), to reconnect said finishing gear train with said display gear train, said coupling mechanism (806) is coupled via said interface which actuates said coupling mechanism towards a coupled position.