Watch case with orientable and indexed bezel
AssigneeMontres Tudor SA
InventorsJean-Louis Bertrand, Frederic Mossiere, Gregory Schmidt, Jerome Tyrode
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Abstract
A watch case (9; 19; 29) has a middle (2; 12; 22), a bezel (3; 13; 23) mounted to turn on the middle, a ring (5; 15; 25) interfacing between the middle and the bezel, and a first indexing element (1; 11) and a second indexing element (3a; 13a; 23a) which collaborate in such a way as to index the bezel in position relative to the middle, a first elastic element (4b, 4c, 4d; 15; 25) pressing the bezel against the middle and a second elastic element (4a) pressing the first indexing element against the second indexing element (3a; 13a; 23a), the ring comprising an opening (5a; 15a) through which the first or the second indexing element is arranged.
Claims25
A watch case comprising:
- a middle,
- a bezel mounted to turn on the middle,
- a ring interfacing between the middle and the bezel and pressing against the bezel and the middle along a direction of an axis of rotation of the bezel on the middle, and
- a first indexing element and a second indexing element which collaborate in such a way as to index the bezel in position relative to the middle,
- the watch case comprising a first elastic element pressing the bezel against the middle and a second elastic element pressing the first indexing element against the second indexing element, the ring comprising an opening, wherein the first or the second indexing element extends through the opening from a first face of the ring to a second face of the ring, wherein the first face of the ring faces the middle and the second face of the ring faces the bezel.
A watch case comprising:
- a middle,
- a bezel mounted to turn on the middle,
- a ring interfacing between the middle and the bezel and pressing against the bezel and the middle along a direction of an axis of rotation of the bezel on the middle, and
- a first indexing element and a second indexing element which collaborate in such a way as to index the bezel in position relative to the middle,
- wherein (i) the bezel is elastically pressed against the middle and (ii) the first indexing element is elastically pressed against the second indexing element,
- and wherein the ring comprises an opening, wherein at least one of the first indexing element and the second indexing element extends through the opening from a first face of the ring to a second face of the ring, wherein the first face of the ring faces the middle and the second face of the ring faces the bezel.
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