Display mechanism for a timepiece
AssigneeManufacture D'Horlogerie Audemars Piguet SA
InventorEric MAGNIN-FEYSOT
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Abstract
A display mechanism for a timepiece movement includes a plate defining a general plane, the display mechanism including a support intended to be rigidly connected to the plate and including a bearing housing a pivot defining an axis of rotation and rigidly connected to a display member bearing at least one display surface intended to be rotated between at least first and second different positions about the axis of rotation and to be situated substantially in a plane parallel to the general plane in the first position so as to define a reading position, in which the conditions for reading by a user are optimal, the support being arranged so that the axis of rotation defined by the pivot is oriented so as to have an inclination of between 10 and 80 degrees with reference to the general plane.
Claims31
1-13. (canceled)
A display mechanism for a timepiece movement comprising a plate defining a general plane,
- the display mechanism comprising a support, intended to be assembled at least indirectly on the plate, and on which is rotatably mounted a display member bearing at least one display surface bearing at last one item of information to be displayed, associated with a predefined instant or a predefined event, said display surface being intended to be rotated between at least first and second different positions about the axis of rotation of said display member, so that it is situated substantially in a plane parallel to the general plane in said first position, at said predefined instant or when said predefined event occurs, so as to define a reading position of said information, in which the conditions for the reading of the information by a user are optimal, the conditions for reading said information being degraded when said display surface is in said at least second position,
- said support being arranged so that said axis of rotation is oriented so as to have an inclination of between 10 and 80 degrees with reference to the general plane,
- the display mechanism comprising an additional display member, oriented to pivot about an additional axis of rotation having an inclination of between 10 and 80 degrees with reference to the general plane, and bearing at least one additional display surface intended to be rotated between at least two different positions about said additional axis of rotation, so that it is situated substantially in a plane parallel to the general plane in one of its positions so as to define a reading position therein,
- wherein said additional axis of rotation is substantially parallel to said axis of rotation, and is arranged so that the reading position of said additional display surface is adjacent to the reading position of said display surface.
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