Manufacture D'horlogerie Audemars Piguet Sa

Societe Anonyme De La Manufacture D'horlogerie Audemars Piguet & Cie

Audemars Piguet (renaud Et Papi) Sa

Feldbausch & Cie Ag

Feldbausch, Michael

Giulio Papi

Johan Montet

Julien Martel

Laurent Calame

Tiavina Niaritsiry

Lauren Musitelli

Xavier Guillaume

Yann Mabillard

Cedric Johner

Mathieu Genoud

Stefano Bottinelli

Nicolas Burridge

Michael Feldbausch

Marc-Olivier Pages

Nicolò Robuschi

Disclosed is a tourbillon for a horology movement including a cage rotatably mounted on the horology movement, the cage bearing a regulating organ including a balance including a balance pivot pivotally mounted in balance bearings about a balance axis with an anchor including an anchor pivot pivotally mounted in anchor bearings about an anchor axis and arranged to cooperate both with the regulating organ and also with an escapement wheel including an escapement pivot pivotally mounted in escapement bearings about an escapement axis. The anchor and the escapement wheel are positioned relative to the balance so the distance between the anchor axis and the balance axis and the distance between the escapement axis and the balance axis are greater than the outer radius of the balance. Also disclosed is a movement including such a tourbillon as well as to a timepiece including such a movement.

Tourbillon for a horology movement

A monolithic component for a timepiece, in particular for a mechanical timepiece, comprising at least one rigid portion and an elastically flexible portion and designed to transmit the movement of an actuator of the timepiece to a driven part of the timepiece. The monolithic component comprises a rigid frame, a first rigid driving member, and a first elastically flexible structure connecting said frame to said first driving member. The first elastically flexible structure is configured in a manner such as to provide a displacement of said first driving member with at least two degrees of freedom, said displacement being caused as a result of the actuator coming into contact with said first driving member.

Flexible monolithic component for a timepiece

Device for displaying phases of the moon with a fist display member () bearing a plurality of first images (-) at least partially representing the moon, a display zone, driving means () arranged to displace, by successive jumps, the first display member () relative to the display zone, to display a succession of representations of the moon. An original feature of the invention is that the periods of display of the first images are not all equal.

Moon-phase display device

Disclosed is a timepiece mechanism which has a mobile including a tooth of a first type and a tooth of a second type, and a pawl that is intended to move the mobile by at least one step on each actuation and has a travel that is liable to move the mobile by two steps on each actuation. This timepiece mechanism has a correction mobile designed to define different paths of the pawl, depending on the state thereof, the pawl and the correction mobile being designed such that, on each actuation of the pawl: the pawl moves the mobile by one step; and the pawl moves the mobile by an additional step only when the correction mobile is in a predefined state and the tooth of the second type is situated along the travel of the pawl.

Timepiece mechanism intended to be driven through a variable number of steps

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.

Timepiece comprising a variable-pitch display

An escapement is disclosed which includes pallets, a roller and a pin fastened to the roller, intended to cooperate with one another. The pallets have no guard pin and include a pallet fork intended to cooperate with the pin and the roller and including first and second horns delimiting an entry of the pallet fork. The roller has an anti-overbanking wall in which a notch is formed, in a region adjacent to the pin. The pallets, the roller and the pin are conformed and dimensioned in such a manner that, in the service position, the anti-overbanking wall is able to define an abutment for the first and second horns, and each of the horns is able to penetrate to the interior of the notch exclusively when the pin is at least partly situated in the entry of the pallet fork.

Lever escapement assembly for a timepiece movement

In an annual or perpetual calendar mechanism, a day-of-the-month wheel includes a notch. At each actuation of a lever, a first pawl finger effects an actuation of one step, on one of the teeth of the day-of-the-month wheel. Upon actuation of the lever at the end of a month of fewer than 31 days, a second pawl finger effects, in the notch, an actuation of the day-of-the-month wheel by a whole number of steps. The notch is positioned between two consecutive teeth among the teeth of the day-of-the-month wheel. The day-of-the-month wheel has a peripheral edge which forms the profiles of its teeth as well as the notch.

Annual or perpetual calendar mechanism and timepiece comprising the same

In an annual or perpetual calendar mechanism, a lever bears a maneuvering device of a day-of-the-month wheel. A month wheel defines course beginning stops, each associated with a month and operational for controlling a course beginning position of the lever when the month wheel is in the angular position associated with this month. These course beginning stops are bottoms of slots alternating with the teeth of the month wheel. The month wheel has a peripheral edge which forms the profile of its teeth as well as the course beginning stops.

A timepiece comprises a chiming device including at least one pivoting toothed sector called rack () intended to cooperate with at least one first part (), driving a second part () secured to a pin () cooperating with an eccentric () for actuating at least one hammer () characterized in that the hammer () chimes a gong () extending substantially in a plane A by being displaced along a plane B which intercepts the plane A of the gong ().

Timepiece comprising a chiming device

A coupling device for timepieces that includes an entry wheel, a coupling wheel, and a first exit wheel. The coupling wheel is disposed substantially coplanar to the plane of rotation of the entry wheel and of the first exit wheel and is adapted to tilt relative to the plane of rotation to occupy a first coupling position in which the coupling wheel meshes with the first exit wheel and a second coupling position in which the coupling wheel is decoupled from the first exit wheel. The device also includes a movable element to control the change of position between the first and the second position of the coupling wheel. The coupling wheel defines an axis of rotation that can be inclined relative to the normal to the plane of rotation of the entry wheel and of the first exit wheel by being mounted pivotably at each of the ends thereof.

Tilting coupling device for timepiece

A chronograph mechanism includes an intermediate chronograph mobile which is provided for transmitting a drive to first and second sweep-hand mobiles. A first and a second return device are configured to return the first sweep-hand mobile to a first predetermined angular position relative to the intermediate chronograph mobile, in the absence of angular immobilization of the first sweep-hand mobile by a first brake, and the second sweep-hand mobile to a second predetermined angular position relative to the intermediate chronograph mobile, in the absence of angular immobilization of the second sweep-hand mobile by a second brake. A control system includes a coordination device arranged to maintain the first and second brakes alternately in two opposite configurations, in each of which one of the first and second brakes is in an inactive state and the other is in an active state.

Chronograph mechanism and timepiece comprising the chronograph mechanism

The regulating device, represented by its escapement wheel (), is kept horizontal by being supported by a platform () secured to a counterweight () rotatably mounted about an arbour A, pivoting in a carriage () rotatably mounted about an arbour Aperpendicular to the arbour A. Escapement wheel 15 meshes with a driving wheel () secured to arbour Aand forming the output of a first differential () having at its inputs a kinematic corrective chain () and a kinematic drive chain, itself connected to the output of a second differential () having at its inputs the barrel wheel () and another kinematic corrective chain () meshing with a wheel () secured to the carriage (). The device can also act on an automatic winding block ().

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La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

Giulio Papi