Adhesive time zone adjuster
OwnerArthur B. Leopoldinventor
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Abstract
An attachment for a watch that locates the time figures of a very simple disc in position to adapt the watch to a different time zone without setting the hands. In one embodiment, the disc is flexible and transparent, except for printed indicia, and is adapted for self-sticking application to the watch crystal. In another embodiment, disc is adjustable for any selected time zone.
Claims4
Apparatus for changing the time zone of a timepiece including in combination a face with hour figures spaced around the circumferential area of the face, hands that rotate about the center of the face, a crystal that covers the face beyond the hands and an auxiliary disc that fits over a portion of the area of the crystal and with numerals indicating the hours of the day, said auxiliary disc having adhesive on its rearward surface for securing the face to the crystal of the timepiece with numerals on the auxiliary disc correlated with the hour figures around the circumferential area of the face so as to correspond to a time zone that is different from the hour figures spaced around the circumferential area of the face of the timepiece, and adhesive on the auxiliary disc on the side that is attached to the crystal of the timepiece;
- said auxiliary disc consisting of three layers, the first layer being secured to the timepiece and the third layer being secured to the first layer around at least a portion of the periphery of said third and first layers, and the second layer being sandwiched between the third and first layers and of less surface area than the third and first layers so that no part of the second layer extends between the portions of the first and second layers that contact with one another, and the second layer being rotatable between the first and second layers to change the location of hour figures on the second layer and to change the relative position of the second layer with respect to the hour numbers thereon and with respect to the hour numbers on the face of the timepiece.
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