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US 2023/0287573 A1Published application
Black components and manufacturing process thereof
AssigneeThe Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
InventorsAgnès MARLOT DOERR, Stewes BOURBAN
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Abstract
A component intended for internal parts or the movement of a timepiece or piece of jewellery includes a substrate coated at least partially with a black coat including aluminium oxide.
Claims32
1-31. (canceled)
An internal part or movement component for a timepiece of piece of jewellery comprising:
- a substrate including at least one portion coated with a black coat comprising at least one aluminium oxide, the coated portion having in the CIELAB colour system a value of L* less than 12, preferably less than 7, a value of a* between −2 and +2, preferably between −1 and +1, a value of b* between −3.5 and +5, preferably between −3.5 and +1.
A process for manufacturing a component for internal parts of a movement of a timepiece or piece of jewellery, said component including a substrate coated at least partially with a black coat comprising an aluminium oxide, the process comprising:
- a) providing the substrate and machining said substrate, and
- b) adding the black coat to at least a portion of the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.