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Timepiece comprising a mechanical chinese calendar

A clock and watch movement technology, applied in the field of clocks and watches

Active Publication Date: 2008-01-23
THE SWATCH GRP RES & DEVELONMENT LTD
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Known mechanisms for displaying values ​​for the Julian or other Gregorian calendars therefore cannot be used for this purpose

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[0022] In general, the watch 20 shown in FIG. 1 includes on its top face a dial 21 associated with a plurality of rotating indicator elements, such as hands or dials, which rotate relative to corresponding scales provided on the dial 21 . These indicator parts are driven by the timepiece movement of the mechanical or electromechanical watch 20 . The watch comprises the customary control parts of a calendar watch, in particular a control stem with an external crown 22 and means for correcting the calendar. In the example above, all indicator components turn clockwise.

[0023] The display part firstly comprises a time, hour analog display with hour hand 24 and minute hand 25 , for which scale 26 is the usual hour circle. Obviously, a second hand could also be set, but it doesn't exist in this example.

[0024] The moon phase and moon age indicators typically include a moon disc 27 which completes a half revolution each synodic month. The disc 27 is visible in a specially sh...

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The present invention discloses a watch comprising a mechanical or electromechanical horological movement, analogue time indicators (24, 25) indicating the lunar date on a scale (31) and driven by the horological movement so as to rotate one or two synodic months. A lunar calendar indicator (27) of the circle, and a lunar calendar indicator component actuated by a calendar mechanism (50) driven from the lunar calendar indicator (27). The month moving part (70) with the lunar month indicator (34) is driven via the rocker (60) to make one revolution every ordinary year with 12 months and every leap year with 13 months. Other lunar indicators are driven from the month movement and include a first year indicator (40) that rotates once in 12 years, a second year indicator (44) that rotates in 10 years, and a 19 year indicator and a third year indicator (37) associated with a long cycle cam (63) representing ordinary years and leap years. The watch may also include a Julian Perpetual Calendar.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a timepiece comprising a timepiece movement, a time indicator part, a month indicator part driven by the timepiece movement and making one revolution during an integer number of synodic months, a calendar indicator part movable relative to a dial, And the calendar mechanism driven from the timepiece movement. Background technique [0002] Calendar watches are usually set to indicate values ​​according to the Gregorian calendar, more specifically the Julian or Gregorian calendar. The calendar mechanism is essentially set up to count the days of each month, and when applied to count months, increments the year counter every twelve months. Therefore, this mechanism is only actuated once a day by the timepiece movement with the wheel driven by the hour wheel at a ratio of 1:2. [0003] The present invention proposes to incorporate a calendar indicator component for a traditional lunar calendar into a timepiece. Currently, the lu...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G04B19/26
CPCG04B19/268G04B19/26
Inventor A·维约米耶F·梅兰
Owner THE SWATCH GRP RES & DEVELONMENT LTD
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