Abstract: A method for manufacturing an external horological or jewellery part including the following successive steps of producing a base plate in a substrate made of a ceramic material, mirror polishing the base plate on at least one face, referred to as the “display face”, intended to be visible to a user, laser machining according to predefined patterns in a preliminary step, oxidising the base plate by heat treatment.

Abstract: An external part including a substrate and a coating composed of the following successively superimposed layers; an opaque or semi-opaque reflective layer, configured to have a reflectance of at least 90% for wavelengths including between 600 nm and 780 nm, a transparent or semi-transparent layer, having a refractive index to include between 1.45 and 2.8 for a wavelength of 630 nm, an absorbent layer, the layers giving the coating a predetermined interference colour.

Abstract: A bracelet clasp including first and second blades, the first blade being articulated to the second blade by a first end, between a closed position, in which the second blade is folded over the first blade, and an open position in which the second blade is free from the first blade, the second blade bearing, at a second end, a member for fastening a first bracelet strand, a second bracelet strand being connected at least indirectly to the first blade. A locking device holds the first blade in its closed position.

Abstract: A water-resistant watch case of a diving watch, includes a back mounted on a lower side of a middle part, and a crystal mounted on an upper side of the middle part. The crystal includes an annular peripheral surface mounted by a first portion of an annular gasket made of amorphous metal on an inner annular surface that is complementary in shape, on the upper side of the middle part. A second portion of the gasket on the first portion of the gasket maintains the crystal against the middle part. The annular peripheral surface of the crystal is inclined towards the inside of the watch case at an angle less than 90° relative to a central axis perpendicular to the plane of the watch case to distribute stresses between the crystal and the middle part due to the water pressure.

Abstract: A zinc-free gold alloy containing by weight between 37% and 38.5% of gold, between 4 and 32% of palladium and/or silver, between 25% and 54% of copper and between 0% and 10% of gallium. A timepiece or piece of jewellery or gemstone jewellery made of this alloy.

Abstract: A watch including a case (6) having a push-piece (8), movable in a radial direction, and a device (14) for locking the push-piece. The locking device includes a locking member (16) rotatably mounted about a central axis of the case and arranged to be actuated between a locking position, wherein the push-piece is stopped or blocked by the locking device so that the function cannot be activated by actuation of the control member, and an unlocking position wherein the push-piece is released and can then be actuated in said radial direction to allow the function to be activated. A rotating bezel (20) and the locking member are coaxial arranged so that they can each be rotatably actuated by the user independently of each other. Thus, the rotating bezel is independent of the locking function and can thus be dedicated to the chronograph mechanism and be in particular useful for diving.

Abstract: A timepiece including a device for opening a cover including a fixed pendant mounted inside a middle part and a movable pendant for sliding within the fixed pendant towards the center of the case, the movable pendant having a guide element for moving along an axial guide groove, then in a circumferential guide groove into which the axial guide groove opens out and which is delimited by a boundary, such that, when the movable pendant is pushed, this movable pendant can be firstly displaced axially, then pivoted by an angle defined by the place at which the guide element abuts against the boundary, the movable pendant having a helical groove which comes into contact with at least one pin arranged with a clearance between the movable pendant and the locking spring and which is axially displaced towards the locking spring when the movable pendant is pushed, then pivoted, such that the pin presses against the locking spring and releases the cover.

Abstract: An annular rotating bezel system to be rotatably mounted on a case middle of a watch case inside which is housed a timepiece movement which extends in a plane, including a rotating bezel, an annular holding ring, a toothed ring, and a spring ring which extends in a plane in which it is capable of deforming elastically along a radius, the spring ring cooperating elastically with the toothed ring, the toothed ring and the spring ring being held in an axial direction perpendicular to the plane of the movement in the bezel by the annular holding ring, either the toothed ring or the spring ring being arranged to be angularly joined to the rotating bezel, and the other being arranged to be angularly joined to the case middle, wherein the spring ring has a thinned portion to increase the flexibility of the spring ring in its plane, the thinned portion having a tooth elastically and radially meshed with the toothed ring.

Abstract: A rotating resonator mechanism (60) including a flexible guide (5) and an oscillating mass (2), the flexible guide (5) including two main flexible strips (4, 6) and a rigid portion (7). The flexible strips are joined to the rigid portion and the oscillating mass. An adjustment means adjusts the stiffness of the resonator mechanism, and includes a flexible element connected to the rigid portion and to a fixed support (11), so that the flexible guide (5) is suspended by the flexible element (12), the flexible guide (5) and the flexible element (12) extending substantially in the same plane so that the oscillating mass (2) performs a rotating movement about a virtual pivot. The adjustment means also includes pre-stressing means (15) to apply a variable force or torque on the flexible element (12) or the flexible guide (5), to vary the stiffness of the flexible element (12).

Abstract: A dewar device (1) for mechanical and/or functional components (2) of a watch (3), the device (1) being provided with a bracelet and a casing (4) including an enclosure (5) wherein it is possible to arrange a case (6) of the watch (3) and at least one reversible connecting element (7) fixing the watch (3) case (6) in the enclosure (5) of the casing (4) while keeping it remote from all the elements (10a, 10b, 10c) of the casing (4) defining this enclosure (5), the at least one reversible connecting element (7) being provided with a body forming a structure (8) including at least one recessed area (9).

Abstract: An isothermal clock device for mechanical and/or functional components of a watch, the device being provided with a bracelet and a casing including an enclosure wherein a case of said watch is capable of being arranged and a reversible fastening device fastening the case of a watch in the enclosure of the casing by keeping it away from the set of elements of the casing defining this enclosure, the fastening device including at least two connecting members each connected to an attachment area of the case from at least one telescopic bar.

Abstract: A Dewar device is for mechanical and/or functional components of a watch. The device is provided with a wristlet and a casing. The casing includes a chamber in which a case of the watch is capable of being arranged in a removable manner, and a device for reversible fastening by magnetic levitation of the watch case in the chamber configuring a separation between the case and the set of the elements of the casing forming the chamber.

Abstract: A spiral spring, in particular for a horological resonator mechanism, the spiral spring (30) extending substantially in a plane, the spiral spring (30) including a flexible strip (2) coiled on itself in a plurality of turns, the strip (2) having a predefined rigidity, the spiral spring (30) including means for adjusting its rigidity, wherein the adjustment means comprise a flexible element (5) in direct contact with the strip (2), the flexible element (5) preferably having a rigidity greater than that of the strip (2), the adjustment means including prestressing means (6) for applying a variable force or torque to the flexible element (5) so as to vary the rigidity of the flexible element (5).

Abstract: A roller jumping timepiece display mechanism, each display of which includes a roller and/or a combined roller including two rollers internal to each other, held in the rest position by first elastic return means, at least one display is movable in rotation controlled by the movement of at least one lever whose fall is controlled or prohibited by at least one cam driven by a movement, and at least one trigger or correction lever is arranged to bearingly cooperate simultaneously with two cams towards which it is returned by second elastic return means.

Abstract: A spiral spring for a timepiece resonator mechanism, the spiral spring extending substantially in a plane and including a flexible blade wound on itself in several turns and a setting device for modifying the effective length of the wound blade, the setting device including a clamp movable along at least one ending portion of the spiral spring, the clamp extending substantially in the plane of the spiral spring, the clamp including two bearing faces arranged on either side of the wound blade in a multiplicity of positions so as to define a variable effective length of the spiral spring, the clamp and the wound blade being linked to each other by a flexible element allowing the clamp and the bearing faces to be displaced along the wound blade.

Abstract: An annular retaining ring for a rotating bezel system, intended to cooperate with an external cylindrical surface of a case middle part of a watch case to allow rotation of the rotating bezel on the case middle, the annular ring including a device for guiding rotation of the rotating bezel around the case middle; wherein the annular ring further includes a device configured to brake rotation of the rotating bezel around the case middle and to dampen sound.

Abstract: A clasp for a watch bracelet including a cover connected on a first side to a first bracelet strand and on a second side to a second bracelet strand, a connection between the second bracelet strand and the cover of the clasp, the connection including a connecting link sliding in a longitudinal direction of the clasp between a first position and a second position. The clasp includes at least one first and one second bars mounted in the cover, and the connecting link includes a lever provided with a hook capable of moving from a first position wherein the hook is engaged with a first bar integral with the cover of the clasp, into a second position wherein the hook is released from the engagement thereof with the first bar and the link is free to slide so as to engage the second bar with a hook.

Abstract: A support element (100, 200) for a timepiece (10) or a piece of jewellery including a receiving surface (111) configured to be at least partly in direct contact with the timepiece (10), or piece of jewellery, the support element (100, 200) including a peripheral portion (110) carrying the receiving surface (111), and a central portion (120, 220) formed by a block of material, the support element (100, 200) including an internal cavity (130, 230) forming a recess of the central portion (120, 220); the internal cavity defining a volume configured to receive and hold in position an object (140) inside the support element (100, 200).

Abstract: A timepiece and a tool to separate a back from a middle, which jointly delimit a watch case of this timepiece, inside which a horological movement is housed, this tool having the appearance of a wedge, i.e. an acute-shaped part formed by a first face and a second face which intersect at an angle of less than 90° and which are connected to one another by a rounded portion, the first face of the tool being oriented such that it extends parallel to a mean plane wherein the horological movement is located when an horologist engages this tool between the back and the middle in order to separate this back from this middle, the rounded portion being connected to the second face by a curved portion, the curvature whereof is directed towards the inside of a surface delimited by the first and second faces.

Abstract: A system for fastening a horological movement of generally circular shape in a watch case, this fastening system including a casing ring wherein the horological movement is disposed, the casing ring extending between an upper portion and a lower portion, the horological movement being fastened in the lower portion of the casing ring using a first and a second fastening device disposed at two opposite ends of a diameter of the horological movement, at least a third fastening device, angularly offset relative to the first and second fastening device and fastened in the upper portion of the casing ring, allowing the horological movement to be blocked in the casing ring.