Annular rotating bezel system comprising at least one elastic arm

Abstract

An annular rotating bezel system intended to be rotatably mounted on a middle part of a watch case inside which is housed a timepiece movement which extends in a plane, including a rotating bezel, an annular holding ring, a toothed ring, and at least one elastic arm of which a free end is elastically and radially meshed with the toothed ring, said toothed ring and said at least one elastic arm being held in an axial direction perpendicular to the plane of the movement in the bezel by the annular holding ring, either the toothed ring or the elastic arm being arranged to be angularly joined to the rotating bezel, and other being arranged to be angularly joined to the case middle; wherein the elastic arm is formed of a flat strip-spring mounted in a cantilever arrangement in the system.

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