Two time zone device for a timepiece movement
OwnerMatthew D Zinski, Zachary A Smithinventors
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Abstract
A device applied to a mechanical timepiece movement whether it be hand-wound or automatically wound for measuring two time zones using two twelve-hour hands in which a three-position crown is used to wind, jump the date disc in one-day increments, jump the second time zone hour hand forwards or backwards in one-hour increments, and set the time. In particular, the invention proposes a device for synchronizing the time keeping between both twelve-hour hands and allowing the second time zone hour hand to be independently jumped in one-hour increments without affecting the time measured on the other hands from a single time setting device.
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A device added to a mechanical timepiece movement be it hand-wound or automatically winding that provides a fourth hand measuring a second time zone at a twelve-hour scale that may be, independent of the other time measuring hands, jumped clockwise or counterclockwise in one-hour increments.
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