Rolex Sa

Alexandre Chiuve

Fabiano Colpo

Raphael Cettour-Baron

Raphaël Cettour-Baron

This Swiss lever escapement comprises an escape wheel having teeth, and a lever having on the one hand an entry pallet and an exit pallet that engage alternately with the teeth of the escape wheel, and on the other hand a fork that engages periodically with an impulse pin on a roller mounted on the staff of a regulator balance wheel. The relative width Lpl of each of said pallets, expressed as a percentage of the sum of the lengths of arc of one of said teeth and one of said pallets, measured at the circumference of the escape wheel is: where Ls and Le are the lengths of arc of the exit pallet and entry pallet, respectively, andd is the length of arc of one escape wheel tooth.

Swiss lever escapement

This escapement comprises a balance wheel (), an escape wheel (), a detent rocker () having an arresting element () and an elastic clearance element (), means for inserting the arresting element into the path of the teeth of the escape wheel (), and a clearance pin () rotating integrally with the balance wheel () in order to engage with the elastic clearance element () of the rocker () once per period of oscillation of the balance wheel. The means for inserting the arresting element () into the path of the teeth of the escape wheel () comprise a sliding surface () integral with the detent rocker () and arranged so as to move into the path of the teeth of the escape wheel () when the arresting element () leaves it, this sliding surface being shaped so as to return the arresting element () to the locking position.

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Grand-Lancy, Switzerland

Alexandre Chiuve