Abstract: A device for guiding a pivoting mass about an axis. A first support is fixed and a second support forms or supports the pivoting mass. The device is includes a first and second flexible leaf oriented in the same direction when the device is at rest, and an intermediate leaf having a rigidity notably greater than the flexible leaves and connecting the first flexible leaf to the second, the device including a first fixed link formed by the first support and a first end of the first leaf, a second fixed link formed by a second end of the first leaf and by a first end of the intermediate leaf, a third fixed link formed by a second end of the intermediate leaf and by a first end of the second leaf and a fourth fixed link formed by at least one second end of the second leaf, wherein the first and/or the fourth link is arranged substantially between the second and the third link in the direction when the device is at rest.

Abstract: A horological mobile component, including around an axis, a first element including a first shoulder and a second element including a second shoulder which cooperates by friction with a third shoulder that is included by a third element interposed between the first element and the second element, this third element includes a fourth shoulder cooperating by friction with the first shoulder or being driven onto this first shoulder, and the diameter of the third shoulder is at least double the diameter of the fourth shoulder, and the second element includes a main hollow defining at least two bearing surfaces each including one or two bearing sectors belonging to the second shoulder.

Abstract: A method is provided of communication between a user and a database of Patents and also of the display and the interactive exploration of data on information of interest relating to Patents/Patent applications. The method comprises: the generation, by means of an access interface, of a request allowing the database to be interrogated based on at least one selection criterion entered into the access interface; the interrogation of the database by means of the request and the loading of bibliographical data for the Patents/Patent applications found, the downloaded bibliographical data comprising data on the technological category; the processing of the bibliographical data, the processing comprising an analysis of co-occurrences comprising the determination of a number of co-occurrences of data on the technological category for all of the Patents/Patent applications found; the displaying, in interactive graphical and/or textual form, of a result and/or of an interpretation of the analysis of co-occurrences.

Abstract: A timepiece including a timepiece movement and sunrise and sunset indicating device that take account of the date and geolocation of the user, the device including a first device for receiving the current date, a second device for receiving a geolocation signal, and a disc bearing a representation of the sun, arranged to be capable of pivoting about an axis passing through the centre of the disc. The sunrise and sunset indicating device include a movable horizon arranged to move above the disc and to indicate the position of the sun with respect to the horizon.

Abstract: A horological movement with automatic winding, including a plate, a barrel, a cannon-pinion including a minute pipe which supports a minute hand, an hour wheel set including an hour pipe which supports an hour hand, an oscillating weight, arranged on the same side of the plate as the cannon-pinion and the hour wheel set, which includes a central hub, a rim, a heavy sector, a lifting arbor rigidly connected to the central hub and about which the minute pipe and the hour pipe are mounted coaxially, the minute hand and the hour hand being located between the plate and the rim of the rotor.

Abstract: A component made of micromachinable material for a high quality factor resonator or escapement mechanism, with a core made of micromachinable material and/or coated with an oxide layer, and including, on this core or on this oxide layer an abrasion resistant layer including a contact surface cooperating with an opposing contact surface an which is a hydrophobic self-assembled monolayer of the alkylsilane and/or fluorinated or perfluorinated or polyperfluorinated type, with a low or zero sulphur content, and arranged to repel any wetting agent from the area of contact between the contact surface and the opposing contact surface.

Abstract: A watch including a dial including a fixed portion superimposed on a portion movable in rotation including a surface on which are arranged areas with visual appearances different from each other, the fixed portion including at least one through opening emerging on at least one of the areas, the movable portion being kinematically connected to a control member so as to be rotated by actuating the control member and being configured so that when it is rotated, the areas of different visual appearance appear successively through the opening.

Abstract: A timepiece including a case; pivotably mounted display hands; a movement to drive the display hands while defining a sweeping surface; a display screen, a first part of the sweeping surface being superimposed on the screen and a second part of the sweeping surface not being superimposed on the screen; a control circuit configured to sequentially switch between first and second operating modes, with: a first operating mode wherein the display hands are driven in the first and second parts of the sweeping surface; a second operating mode wherein the display hands are driven only in the second part of the sweeping surface with display of a piece of information by the display screen.

Abstract: A display module (100) for displaying at least two time zones. The display module (100) includes at least one date wheel (110), at least one main wheel (120) and at least one movable intermediate wheel (130). The at least one date wheel (110) is configured to displace said at least one movable intermediate wheel (130) into at least one first position (101) and to drive the at least one main wheel (120) via the at least one movable intermediate wheel (130). The at least one main wheel (120) is configured to displace the at least one movable intermediate wheel (130) into at least one second position (102) so as to disengage the at least one movable intermediate wheel (130) from the at least one date wheel (110) and to correct the time of the at least one second time zone.

Abstract: A method and device for determining a constant parameter of an inhibition value for adjusting the device operating frequency of a watch equipped with a quartz oscillator. The following steps are performed by a self-calibration circuit of the electronic watch device: from a first external pulse and a second external pulse received from a system external to the watch and separated by a measurement time, corresponding to a reference number of reference periods for a periodic calibration signal derived from the time-measurement signal and having a calibration frequency derived from the natural frequency of the quartz oscillator, determining a calibration parameter representative of a ratio between a calibration period and a reference period for the periodic calibration signal, and determining a constant inhibition parameter as a function of the calibration parameter.

Abstract: A timepiece movement includes a photovoltaic cell which is attached to the upper surface of a support plate, preferably by adhesive bonding. On the other side of the cell, on its lower surface, the support plate is provided with a plurality of nuts. An electrical module including a flat surface is attached to the support plate with the nuts. The module is provided with several openings whose position and dimensions correspond to those of the nuts, so that the nuts pass through the openings, allowing the flat surface of the module to be placed in contact with the support plate. The module is secured to the support plate by screws, screwed into the nuts. The connection via the nuts secures the photovoltaic cell to the electrical module and ensures shock resistance, without requiring a lateral support.

Abstract: A timepiece mechanism includes at least two coaxial tubes that include a lateral opening so as to be able to be aligned and to receive a lubricant. A lubrication method for coaxial tubes of a timepiece mechanism includes assembling the coaxial tubes, aligning and injecting a lubricant into the opening.

Abstract: A dial including an external parts plate (11) intended to be visible for a user, resting on a bearing surface (120) of a support plate (12) on which it is superimposed, the external parts plate (11) and the support plate (12) being fastened to one another at their periphery by the cooperation of peripheral fastening members that they both include, and at their centre by the cooperation of central fastening members that they both include.

Abstract: An analogue display watch (10) including an electronic horological movement including a first and a second electric motor (13, 14) kinematically connected respectively to an hour hand (15) and to a minute hand (16), the electric motors being power supplied by an electric accumulator (12), the horological movement also comprising an integrated circuit (17) connected to the motors and to a control member (18), the watch (10) being characterised in that the integrated circuit (17) is configured so as to control, when the control member (18) is requested by a user, the first and the second electric motor (13, 14) to rotate the hour (15) and minute (16) hands at an angular speed of displacement of six degrees per second, and in such a way that they are disposed so as to be collinear and that they are superimposed on each other.

Abstract: A power reserve indicator mechanism is for displaying the power reserve of an energy storage of a timepiece movement, powered in a winding phase by an input wheel actuated by a winding-stem or an automatic winding mechanism of the movement, or by an external winder, and arranged to restore energy in the unwinding phase via an output wheel. The power reserve indicator mechanism includes at least one display wheel set indirectly driven by the input wheel or by the output wheel, via a differential mechanism of which the input wheel and the output wheel constitute two inputs, and, at a single output, an output wheel set directly or indirectly driving the display wheel set.

Abstract: A machining centre includes a base supporting several superposed stages. At least one stage is movable and can be position indexed relative to the base. Each stage includes distinct stations at a constant angular pitch including machining units or grippers. The combination of stations from adjacent stages defines a plurality of machining locations each combining a unit and a gripper. Each relative movement between two indexing positions of two stages changes the composition of the locations. Each gripper has at least one rotational degree of freedom relative to the stage that carries it. At least one station includes both at least one machining unit and at least one gripper.

Abstract: A device (1), and timepiece having the device, for displaying a succession of periodic events which form an annual cycle, including a periodic events indicator member (2) and a mechanism (4) for managing a duration during which the periodic events are displayed by the periodic events indicator member (2). The management mechanism includes a cam (8) for managing a duration during which the periodic events are displayed, which cam is arranged such that it controls the change from the indication of a periodic event to the indication of a subsequent periodic event by the periodic events indicator member, a periodic driver (10) for driving the management cam (8) and a member (6) disposed between the management cam and the periodic events indicator member and arranged such that it drives the periodic events indicator member (2) during a change in event. The device displays the periods of the zodiac.

Abstract: A fastening method is for fastening at least one display element of a watch using a fastening device. Indeed, the at least one display element is fastened thanks to the fastening method via the fastening device. For this, it is necessary to provide the at least one display element, at least one movement, and at least one split ring, then to deform the at least one split ring so as to adapt to the at least one display element before fastening the at least one split ring with the at least one display element to the at least one movement.

Abstract: A case middle/horn connection device for a watch, a method for attaching an attachment piece including at least one horn to a case middle and a case middle/horn assembly. The connection device includes an attachment piece including at least one horn having a first connector and a case middle having a second connector, the first connector being configured to cooperate with the second connector to attach the attachment piece to the case middle. The first connector includes a tongue with a recess. The second connector includes a groove with an undercut portion. The undercut portion is configured to lodge inside the recess of the tongue; and the case middle and the attachment are made integral when the undercut portion of the second connector is lodged in the recess of the tongue of the first connector.

Abstract: A timepiece regulator includes a detached lever escapement mechanism and a resonator with a quality factor Q including an inertia element. An impulse pin is integral with an inertia element and cooperates with a fork of the lever. The inertia element is subjected to the action of an elastic return directly or indirectly fixed to the plate and arranged to cooperate indirectly with an escape wheel set included in the escapement mechanism. The resonator mechanism is a resonator with a virtual pivot rotating about a main axis, with a flexure bearing subjected to the return force of at least two flexible strips attached to the plate, defining together a virtual pivot with a main axis. The lever pivots about a secondary axis. The lever is made of silicon added to an arbor pivoted with respect to the plate.