Watch head configured for assembly and disassembly in opposite directions
AssigneeETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
InventorsRoger WILLEMIN, Martial Bringolf
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Abstract
A watch head (1) which can be assembled from the top and disassembled from the bottom, the watch head (1), including: a case (2) having a middle (3) delimiting an inner bed (3a), the back (4) fitted with reversible fastener on the middle (3) and a movement rest (5) mounted flush with a lower face on the middle (3); a movement (7) mounted on the movement rest (5) within the pre-assembled case (2); a dial (8) mounted on the movement (5); and a glass (10) closing the pre-assembled case (2) at the end opposite to the back (4). The dial (8) and the movement (7) have dimensions less than or equal to the dimensions of the bed (3a) inside the middle (3) so that the middle (3) can be traversed from above and from below.
Claims16
A watch head (1) which can be assembled from the top and
- disassembled from the bottom, with the bottom defining a lower position facing a back (4) and with the top defining an upper position opposite to the lower position, the watch head (1) comprising:
- a pre-assembled case (2) comprising a middle (3) delimiting an inner bed (3a), the back (4) fitted with reversible fastening means on said middle (3) and a movement rest (5) mounted flush with a lower face on the middle (3);
- a movement (7) mounted on the movement rest (5) within the pre-assembled case (2);
- a dial (8) mounted on the movement (7);
- and
- a glass (10) closing the pre-assembled case (2) at the end opposite to the back (4),
- said dial (8) and said movement (7) having dimensions less than or equal to those of the dimensions of the bed (3a) inside the middle (3) so that the middle (3) can be traversed from above and from below.
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