A calendar watch includes a central date indicator (4). The indicator is united with a crown wheel (9) comprising teeth (11) forming a circular crown (12) arranged to be perpendicular to a face (13) of said wheel. The teeth (12) are driven by a finger (14) rotating in a plane intersecting said crown in its height. The finger is united with a date driving wheel (15). The invention permits easy transformation of a watch having its date display in a dial aperture to a watch having a date indicator rotating about the center of the movement.
The annual calendar mechanism includes a calendar driving wheel (18) provided with a finger (17) adapted to drive a date wheel (19) through one step at the end of each month. An annual wheel (25), driven through two steps once per month by a long tooth (23) borne by an intermediate wheel (21), itself meshing with the date wheel (19), includes a plate (27) bearing five teeth (28). If one of these five teeth, corresponding to one of the months of less than thirty-one days, comes into the path of finger (17), the annual wheel, from being driven, becomes driving and drives the date wheel through an additional step via the intermediate wheel.
A chronograph watch comprises time keeping first indicators (H, M, S1) used for displaying the time of day and chronograph second indicators (h, m, S2) used for displaying an interval of time in response to a control arrangement (P1, P2) with the aid of which the chronograph can be started, stopped and reset to zero. The chronograph watch includes instantaneous conversion means for at least one of the second indicators (here the seconds counter S2) into an indicator of another function, for example an indication of the date (Q), when the chronograph is not in use. In such example there is also provided the transformation of the minutes counter (m) into a four-year cycle indicator (BISS) and the hours counter (h) into a months indicator (Mo).
This invention concerns a timepiece of the mechanical and/or electromechanical type. Such piece comprises a first display mechanism (1), in particular a date display, a second display mechanism (2) such as a moon phase display, rapid correction means (4) for both display mechanisms (1, 2) and a driving organ (6) which controls such display mechanisms (1, 2) and which can absorb equally the displacement of one or the other of these mechanisms, such piece being characterized in that the rapid correction means (4) comprises meshing means (64) common to both mechanisms (1, 2), mounted for rotation and adapted to operate alternatively upon one or the other of such two mechanisms (1, 2) under the action of control means (72, 74). This invention is applicable to calendar and moon phase watches having a center date hand.
The present invention concerns a device for winding and setting the time of a timepiece such as a date watch (1) including a date disc (14), characterized in that the device includes a crown (12) arranged in the top plane of the watch (1) parallel to the plane of the movement (18).