Abstract: A strand of a wristband (10) comprising an end intended for fixing removably to a watch case, wherein said strand comprises a projection (16) or a groove arranged at said end, said projection (16) or groove being intended to become lodged within a groove or projection of a watch case, and wherein said strand comprises at least one vertical opening (17) arranged in the thickness of said projection (16) or of a wall forming said groove and wherein said strand comprises an elastic element (30), so as to be able to accept a pin (20) through the elastic element (30) and through at least part of the length of said at least one vertical opening.

Abstract: A user-worn device includes a band portion and a display portion. The band portion comprises a wire that is configured to create a first magnetic field that follows the curvature of the band portion. The display portion comprises a first electromagnet that is configured to produce a second magnetic field. The display portion orbits around the band portion in a first orbital direction when the first and second magnetic fields interact.

Abstract: Embodiments include a wearable electronic device including a housing having an internal wall separating an internal chamber from an external chamber, an outer shell defining a port that connects the external chamber to an external environment, a membrane positioned at an opening in the internal wall and configured to equalize a pressure within the internal chamber with a pressure of the external environment, a first pressure-sensing device positioned in the internal chamber and configured to produce a first output, a second pressure-sensing device positioned in the external chamber and configured to produce a second output, and a processing unit configured to estimate the pressure of the external environment using the second output in accordance with a determination an accuracy condition satisfies a criteria and estimate the pressure of the external environment using the first output in accordance with a determination the accuracy condition does not satisfy the criteria.

Abstract: A moving mechanism for a decorative element of a timepiece including a circular drive element arranged to be rotatable about a central axis, the decorative element being mounted on the drive element with an arbor integral with the decorative element and parallel to the central axis, and first device for driving the decorative element in a rotational motion about its own arbor and/or in a translational motion along its own arbor, the first drive device for the decorative element being mounted on the circular drive element and arranged to cooperate with fixed actuation device arranged in the periphery of the circular drive element such that the decorative element rotates about its arbor and/or moves along its arbor while rotating about the central axis.

Abstract: A limiting device including an oscillator and capable of blocking this oscillator carried by the carriage of a tourbillon or karussel, which carriage includes a carriage wheel driven by an energy source of the watch or of a movement with a gear train, and carries an escapement mechanism engaging with the oscillator and including an escape pinion, this device includes a control rod, engaging with a control member external to this tourbillon or karussel, in order to push, substantially radially relative to the carriage axis, a resilient strip arranged so as to bear tangentially against the carriage wheel in order to stop the carriage upon passage of the control member from a rest position to an active position, and so as to remain remote from the carriage wheel when the control member is in the rest position thereof.

Abstract: A timepiece, that includes a display mechanism arranged to control the movements of a display organ with respect to an indication scale including different indications having at least two different widths and being separated from one another by corresponding separation spaces, where the separation spaces all have substantially one and the same width.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes a communication unit receiving identification information for identifying a radio station from the radio station, a storage unit storing a database having, as a record, the identification information and time difference information indicating a time difference associated with the identification information, a timekeeping unit in which a set time difference being a time difference with respect to a reference time is set, a first time difference correction unit correcting the set time difference to the time difference information associated with the identification information received by the communication unit, an operation unit accepting user operation, a second time difference correction unit correcting the set time difference according to the operation, and an update processing unit updating the database by changing the time difference information to the set time difference corrected by the second time difference correction unit.

Abstract: Provided is a radio-controlled timepiece that can reduce overall power consumption. The radio-controlled timepiece 1 has a receiver circuit 12 that executes during a specific time limit a reception process to acquire multiple time data from the standard time signals at different times; storage 22 that stores multiple time data; a timekeeper 23 that keeps an internal time; a time setting adjuster 24 that corrects the internal time based on coherent time data when the number of coherent time data, which is time data that is mutually coherent, in the multiple time data reaches a threshold; and a reception controller 21 that extends the time limit when the number of coherent time data is less than the threshold when a specific time that is shorter than the time limit has past since the reception process started.

Abstract: Horological resonator (100) including an inertia mobile component (1) oscillating about an axis of oscillation (D1) and including at least one magnetic area (10), the total resultant magnetic moment of all of the magnetic areas (10), included in the inertia mobile component (1), is aligned in the direction of the axis of oscillation (D1), this inertia mobile component (1) bearing at least one balancing magnet (6), the direction of the magnetic moment thereof crosses the axis of oscillation (D1) to obtain magnetic balancing of the inertia mobile component (1).

Abstract: A timepiece includes a mechanical oscillator, formed of a mechanical resonator, and a device for regulating the frequency of the mechanical oscillator. This regulation device includes an auxiliary oscillator, an electromechanical device for stopping the mechanical resonator, a sensor arranged to detect the passage of the mechanical resonator via the neutral position thereof, and a measuring device arranged to measure a time drift of the mechanical oscillator. The regulation device is arranged to stop, during a given alternation, the natural oscillation movement of the mechanical resonator selectively either momentarily during a first half-alternation occurring before the passage of the mechanical resonator via the neutral position thereof when the time drift measured corresponds to at least a certain gain, or prematurely during a second half-alternation occurring after the passage of the mechanical resonator via the neutral position thereof when the time drift measured corresponds to at least a certain loss.

Abstract: An indicator is provided that can couple, without a fastener, to a housing of an industrial device.

Abstract: Watch bands described herein include electrochromic features that provide adjustable color control based on an applied voltage to offer a variety of colors and color combinations to be displayed by a single band. The user or a control system can control, select, and/or adjust one or more colors of the watch band for visual display. Accordingly, a variety of colors can be displayed at different times without requiring different watch bands for each color or color combination. The color changing features can be used as a visual output of information from the watch to the user.

Abstract: A limiting device for a watch, including an oscillator, and capable of blocking this oscillator carried by the carriage of a tourbillon or karussel, with two intermediate drive wheels integral with arbors pivoted in a plate and rotating in opposite directions to one another, one whereof is driven in rotation by an engaging rod engaging with a control member external to the tourbillon or karussel, each of the intermediate wheels carries at least one resilient element, is arranged so as to bear against a mobile component of the oscillator in order to stop same upon passage of the control member from a rest position to an active position wherein each resilient element bears against this mobile component of the oscillator, or against the carriage, and so as to remain remote from the carriage and from any mobile component of the oscillator when the control member is in the rest position thereof.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to ingress-tolerant input devices. Aspects of the disclosure relate to an ingress-tolerant switch assembly for operating an electronic device in an ingress-protected manner. The switch assembly includes a button configured to be coupled to an outer surface of an enclosure of the electronic device. The switch assembly also includes a spring operably coupled to the button and a magnet coupled to the spring. A pressing force applied by a user to the button overcomes a spring force of the spring to move the magnet into proximity of the magnetic sensor to cause the magnetic sensor to generate a sensor signal for performing a function of the electronic device.

Abstract: A regulating device including an oscillator and capable of blocking this oscillator carried by the carriage of a tourbillon or karussel, and including a stop wheel, coaxial to the carriage wheel and limited in angular mobility by a stop pin limited by a slot of the carriage, and including a toothing engaging with an external control member for the rotation thereof, the carriage carries a resilient element arranged so as to bear against a wheel set of the oscillator to stop the latter when the control member is in an active position, and to remain remote from the carriage and from any wheel set of the oscillator when the control member is in a rest position, wherein the stop wheel is in another angular position relative to the carriage wheel.

Abstract: A component intended to be in friction contact with another component, the component being coated with an electrically conductive layer in one piece, at least partially covering every surface of the component, the friction occurring on at least one of these surfaces, called the functional surface, the functional surface being surrounded by a plurality of side surfaces, the component having on its functional surface a texture formed of a succession of troughs coated with the electrically conductive layer, the troughs each extending between two side surfaces such that the electrically conductive layer remains in one piece over the component despite the wear caused by friction on the functional surface. The invention also relates to the method for manufacturing the component by the DRIE (deep reactive ion etching) process, wherein surface defects on the sides machined by the DRIE process are used to form the troughs.

Abstract: An operating device is provided for a human-powered vehicle. The operating device basically includes a base, a first electric switch, a second electric switch, a first operating member and a second operating member. The first operating member is movable with respect to the base to activate the first electric switch as the first operating member moves from a non-operated position to an intermediate operating position, and then activate the second electric switch as the first operating member moves from the intermediate operating position to an additional operating position. The second operating member is movable with respect to the base to activate the second electric switch as the second operating member moves from a non-operated position to an intermediate operating position, and then activate the first electric switch as the second operating member moves from the intermediate operating position of the second operating member to an additional operating position.

Abstract: A rotary button is provided, including: a housing, a rotating member and an indicating mechanism. The housing includes at least one reference portion. The rotating member defines an axial direction and is non-rotatably disposed on the housing. The rotating member is movable relative to the housing in the axial direction and includes a threaded portion configured to be screwed with a threaded rod. The indicating mechanism is disposed on the housing and is axially interferable with the rotating member. The indicating mechanism includes at least one indicating portion. When the housing is rotated to drive the rotating member to move relative to the threaded rod and be abutted against an external object, the rotating member is axially interfered with the indicating mechanism and drives at least one said indicating portion to correspond to at least one said reference portion.

Abstract: A dial includes a ring in the form of an annular plate, a central disc mounted in a concentric and essentially coplanar manner with respect to the ring, the diameter of the central disc being less than the internal diameter of the ring so as to form an annular area between the two, and a transparent part which covers the annular area. Further, the transparent part is fixed to the central disc and to the ring to secure these elements to each other. The dial can be used in a timepiece with a universal time display and makes it possible to mount a twenty-four hour disc underneath the dial, and to view the markings on the twenty-four disc through the transparent part.

Abstract: A switching device includes a first knob to receive a pressing operation in a first direction; a pressing detection switch to be pressed upon transmission of an operating force of the pressing operation; a decorative member to decorate a periphery of the first knob, that includes an engaged portion; and a holder to engage and hold the decorative member, that includes an engaging portion to engage the engaged portion. In response to the pressing operation by a first stroke amount, by the operating force transmitted to the pressing detection switch without transmitted to the engaged portion, the pressing detection switch is pressed. In response to the pressing operation by a second stroke amount greater than the first stroke amount, by the operating force applied to the first knob being transmitted to the engaged portion, the engaged portion elastically deforms, and engagement of the engaging/engaged portions is released.