US 2022/0206440 A1Published application

Embedded winding mechanism for a watch

AssigneeThe Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd

InventorsMatthias IMBODEN, Alexandre HAEMMERLI, Cédric NICOLAS, Damien PRONGUE, Thierry HESSLER

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Abstract

An embedded winding mechanism for a watch or an automatic watch. The watch or the automatic watch including a mainspring wheel configured to wind a mainspring, at least one electric motor and at least one oscillating weight. The embedded winding mechanism including at least one primary ratchet gear configured to mesh the mainspring wheel of the watch or an automatic watch when the at least one oscillating weight meshes the at least one primary ratchet gear, and at least one secondary ratchet gear configured to actuate the mainspring wheel of the watch or an automatic watch when the at least one electric motor actuates the at least one secondary ratchet gear.

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Dependent claims

An embedded winding mechanism for a watch or an automatic watch;

said watch or said automatic watch comprising a mainspring wheel configured to wind a mainspring, at least one electric motor and at least one oscillating weight;
said embedded winding mechanism comprising at least one:
primary ratchet gear:
said at least one primary ratchet gear is configured to mesh said mainspring wheel of said watch or an automatic watch when said at least one oscillating weight meshes said at least one primary ratchet gear;
and,
secondary ratchet gear said at least one secondary ratchet gear is configured to mesh said mainspring wheel of said watch or an automatic watch when said at least one electric motor meshes said at least one secondary ratchet gear.

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