Abstract: The present invention is a fragrance bottle having a removably affixed timepiece ornament. The present invention includes a fragrance bottle having an exterior surface with a shallow depression. A mounting ring is nondetachably affixed to the fragrance bottle within the exterior depression by an adhesive agent. The timepiece is detachably attached to the mounting ring by inserting its base portion into the cavity of the mounting ring. The mounting ring has a self-contained spring member for securing the detachable engagement to the timepiece. The present invention can also be utilized on other bottles such as liquor bottles.

Abstract: A personal memory aid device and a pressure sensitive transducer which are both adapted to be worn at differing locations on an operator for the purpose of conveniently registering desired events. Actuation of the pressure transducer, either by a simple motion of the operator or by contact of the operator with another object, causes storage of information, such as an event count, concerning the an event defined by such actuation to be stored for concurrent or later communication to the operator. Wired and microwave links are provided for signalling between the transducer unit and the housing. A preferred embodiment is arranged to be implemented in combination with timekeeping circuitry and to be worn on the wrist of the operator in the manner of a wrist watch. The memory aid device is particularly adapted for use during athletic activity by the provision of a waterproof case.

Abstract: A holding device having a frame accommodating a watch body and a drawer attached to the frame underneath the watch body. The drawer accommodates an eyeglass with superimposed lenses. The eyeglass has a flexible bridge between the lenses to enable the lenses to be superimposed one over the other. A face of the watch body and the lenses can have the same shape.

Abstract: A clock security device to be hung on a wall of a facility such as, for example, a store. The clock face has a convex mirrored surface which provides reflected panoramic view of the facility. The clock security device also includes a mounting bracket which provides for the mounting of the clock security device on the wall with the concave mirrored surface at different positions from parallel to the wall to tilted downwardly at different selected angles to the wall.

Abstract: An inlaying watch comprising a holder ring mounted in a hole bored through a personal belonging, a watch body having a flange and a groove formed entirely in a portion of a circumferential surface of the watch body adjacent the flange, and a mount ring having spaced resilient projections with claws formed in an inner diameter portion thereof, said watch body and mount ring being removably fitted together in the position of said holder ring from opposed directions so as to allow the claws to engage into said groove to thereby porvide a unitary structure.

Abstract: A ski pole having a handle on which a liquid crystal display chronometer is detachably mounted. The liquid crystal display chronometer is mounted by means of inserting the chronometer inside the handle of the ski pole which is held in place by a lens and four set screws and so arranged that the push button is located as to be actuable by the thumb of the skier.

Abstract: A decorative time keeping apparatus includes a stuffed animal having an outer fabric filled with a soft stuffing material, the outer fabric formed with an opening; a hollow housing secured to the outer fabric in the opening so as to prevent escape of the stuffing, the housing including a circular recess; a clock removably secured in the recess; and a securing assembly for releasably securing the clock in the recess, the securing assembly including two diametrically opposite catches secured to the housing in the recess thereof, and two diametrically opposite latches secured to the clock and extending rearwardly therefrom for engagement by the catches, with a spring material positioned between the housing and the clock for biasing the latches into releasable locking engagement with the catches.

Abstract: The watch is mounted on the upper arm of a clip so as to be rotatable and removable. The circumference of the case of the watch is provided with ribs which co-operate with shoulders in the opening in the arm for receiving the watch. In a preferred embodiment, the ribs and the shoulders are disposed in such a manner that the watch may be removed in only one position. The watch is situated on the side of the clip which is pressed to open same.Such a watch with a clip may be worn secured to clothes or may be placed on a surface in different positions. Due to the fact that the watch with its face may be rotated, the indicating means is extremely legible in every position.

Abstract: The compass is composed of a glass plate constituting a transparent outer component and of a thin plate constituting an inner transparent component. Two bearings are fixed in holes in these plates, one bearing being situated near the upper face and covered by a disk. An arbor can thus be machined with a maximum length and can support the compass needle with the greatest possible precision. The compass unit, comprising a setting ring which holds the two plates in place, may be driven with a gasket into the radial wall of the case body in lieu of the usual watch glass.

Abstract: A timepiece that may be associated with a billfold in which the incorporation of the timepiece into the billfold does not significantly affect either the configuration or usage of the billfold.A battery-powered digital watch includes a printed circuitboard that is oversized to provide a flange that extends beyond the periphery of the watch cover. The wallet into which the timepiece is to be incorporated includes a cutout in its cover or a pocket sized to receive the cover member of the watch to permit viewing of the digital display, but to prevent the flange from passing therethrough. The timepiece is secured in place by an adhesive-bearing web overlying the backsides of both the flange and the wallet member through which the watch is viewed. Alternatively, or additionally, adhesive may be applied to the frontside of the flange that interfaces with the backside of the wallet member.

Abstract: A time apparatus is disclosed which enables autocycle riders, marathon athletes, jogging runners, skiers etc. to see or check time only by the pushing motion of the thumb of the hand which wears the apparatus, without the need of the other hand.

Abstract: A clock and shaver combination unit comprises a casing provided with an electric clock and a battery source therefor and a self-contained battery powered electric shaver removably received in a compartment in the casing. The shaver is in use to be removed from the casing and utilized separately from the clock, while it can be held in the clock casing when the shaver is not in use. This permits the user to always look at the time while his is shaving, yet enabling the user to carry the shaver together with the clock as one integral unit.

Abstract: An in-the-wall clock attachable to a preconstructed wall, and partially inserted into a hole in the wall, gives the appearance of having been inserted from the back of the wall prior to construction of the wall. This is effected by means of a ring, preferably a clock time ring, in conjunction with a back plate behind which the clock mechanism is placed. The back plate is surfaced in a similar manner to the wall. The face ring is positioned to mask the edge of the back plate, the combination of time ring and back plate concealing the wall hole. Thus the illusion is created that the clock mechanism was pre-built in the wall prior to final construction of the wall, and that the time ring was subsequently attached to the intact wall to delineate the clock face, or provide the clock numerals.

Abstract: A container particularly for medicaments is disclosed. The container includes an alarm which is actuated at a predetermined time each day if the container is not opened during a predetermined time interval prior to said predetermined time. The time interval can be twenty four hours. If the container is opened during said time interval, the alarm is disabled and only actuated at the end of the succeeding time interval. If the alarm is actuated because the container has not been opened during the preceding time interval, opening of the container disables the alarm.

Abstract: A ball pen includes an electronic watch embedded in an inner jacket fixed within a pen cap, wherein the pen cap may be depressed to push ball point outwards for writing use and at the same time, electrically contact a circuit of the electronic watch for shifting the normal operation such as hour and minute indication to another operation such as month-and-date indication.

Abstract: A belt buckle with a watch unit is disclosed. The buckle comprises a dressed plate, a lock fitting secured to one edge of the dressed plate at the rear side thereof for fixing one end of a belt, a pin secured to the other edge of the dressed plate at the rear side thereof for clamping the belt by inserting it in one of a plurality of clamp holes provided at the other end portion of the belt, a rotatable plate pivotably provided to the edge of the dressed plate at the lock fitting side, and a watch unit embedded in the rotatable plate.

Abstract: A writing implement containing electrical circuitry for keeping and displaying time. The implement includes an elongated barrel portion with a writing element having a tip portion protruding from one end thereof and an electrical time keeping device defined by an elongated support in the form of a chip or circuit board disposed within the barrel portion and having a plurality of numerical display elements which extend in a row longitudinally of the barrel of the implement and are aligned behind an elongated window which extends across a longitudinally extending opening in the wall of the barrel. Structures are provided for easily retaining and removing a battery with respect to the barrel to arrange it in circuit with electrical circuitry supported by the circuit board. Structures are also provided for easily removing the elongated circuit board from the barrel and replacing it with another board or after it has been repaired.

Abstract: An electric quartz clock has a clockwork provided with a contact plate which forms a peripheral flange about a rear part of the clockwork, the outer periphery of the flange being engaged by detents which extend rearward from a clock housing whose front cover is provided with a viewing window. The periphery of the front cover carries several pushbuttons aligned with resilient contact members which overhang the flange of the contact plate and can be selectively pressed thereagainst to close a circuit for the control of the clockwork. The contact plate may be permanently secured to the body of the clockwork or may be attached thereto by coacting formations, specifically by lugs on the plate engaging the clockwork body or lugs on a surrounding annular element engaging the rim of a central aperture of the contact plate; the latter lugs could also hold an ancillary rear member such as a spacer ring or an end plate.

Abstract: An external operation device for electronic timepieces having a switch unit made up of an array of a plurality of electric switches is inserted in an external member of a timepiece and said electric switches being electrically connected to an internal module.

Abstract: An autonomously operating pendulum mechanism, adapted to be attached as a unit to a clockwork, comprises a supporting plate adapted to be attached to a clockwork casing in overlying spaced relationship to the front face of the casing. The supporting plate is fastened to the casing by a fastening device which is concentric with the spindles for the clock hands and through which said spindles may project to the exterior of the plate. A pivot bearing is provided on the supporting plate vertically above the spindles adjacent the upper edge of the casing, and the lower edge of the supporting plate carries a circuit board having an electrically energizable coil thereon located immediately below the clockwork casing comprising a portion of an electrical drive mechanism.

Abstract: The invention is a digital electronic watch housed within the same casing as a writing instrument. Terminals are disposed in proximity to the metallic pocket clip to provide an electrical contact to initiate the digital readout display which is housed in a section of the casing having a window for the readout display. The internal components of the writing instrument are constructed in a way to provide an unobstructed axial passage in the writing instrument for the writing and a retraction mechanism of the instrument to be used. The relationship of the means for energizing the display to the pocket clip are such that inadvertent actuation is avoided when carrying the writing instrument in a pocket.