Eta Sa Manufacture Horlogere Suisse

Anne Philipps

Laurent Kaelin

Ivan Villar

Julien Christan

Christophe Cattin

Fabrice Delevaux

A timepiece display mechanism includes at least one display having a shaft, and having at least one plate and/or a bridge carrying at least one guide device for carrying and guiding this shaft around an axis, including, on a first side of said axis, a support surface comprising a V-shape or a pad, symmetrical with respect to a bisector plane passing through the axis, to centre the axis of the shaft on this bisector plane, and on a second opposite side, at least one holding element substantially diametrically opposite the support surface, all the holding elements exerting on this shaft a resultant elastic return force directed towards the axis, and preventing any radial exit of this shaft out of the guide bearing which is a platform with two parallel faces.

Timepiece display mechanism

A braking device (), separate and remote from its guide members, having resilient strips () borne by a braking mobile component () trapped between a structure () and a bolt () and movable perpendicularly to the axis of a horological mobile component arbor (), on which the strips bear, and either all of the bearing forces on the arbor () of the strips () are exerted within a single angular sector having a centre angle (a) of less than 180&#xb0;, or, opposite a first straight or convex strip () tangentially braking this arbor (), a second strip () allows for relative mobility between the braking mobile component () and this arbor () in a direction of mobility (DM), the latter being: either parallel to the first resilient strip (), or wavy and deformable perpendicularly to the direction of mobility (DM).

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Selzach, Switzerland

Anne Philipps