Timepiece with a mobile display
AssigneeAsulab S.A.
InventorsJoachim Grupp, Yvan Teres
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Abstract
An electronic timepiece having a mobile display (2) consisting of a motif (5) composed of n discrete elements P.sub.j that can be selectively activated by a microprocessor or a logic circuit receiving at least one base time signal, and making it possible both to impose the rhythm of increase of the number of activated elements P.sub.j and to effect a random selection of said activated elements, to progressively reveal or mask the motif (5) during the passage of a period of time T and/or the approach of an event E in relation to the functions or the operation of said timepiece.
Claims22
An electronic timepiece providing at least one information from the group of information consisting of the passage of a time interval T and the approach of an event E in relation to the functions or the operation of said timepiece, comprising:
- a time-keeping circuit having an oscillator delivering a base time signal S.sub.0, and a division chain receiving the signal S.sub.0 and delivering time signals S.sub.1, S.sub.2, S.sub.3,
- a dial for displaying said items of information,
- exterior command members delivering at least a function signal S'
- a mobile display, occupying at least a part of the dial and adapted to display said at least one information, said mobile display comprising an assembly of n discrete elements P.sub.j forming puzzle on a rear part of which a design is disposed,
- a command circuit for controlling said mobile display by selectively activating said elements P.sub.j, said command circuit being responsive to at least one of a group of signals consisting of said time signals and said function signal S' for controlling the rhythm of increase or decrease of the number x of said elements P.sub.j that are activated and effecting, at each variation in the number of elements activated, a random or pseudo random selection of which of said elements amongst the n elements of said puzzle are activated, a portion of said design revealed to view being progressively varied during the passage of a time interval T, and/or the approach of an event E in relation to the functions or the operation of said timepiece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.