Blancpain Sa

Julien Behra

Edmond Capt

Mehdi Denden

Julien Peter

Julien Feyer

Timepiece movement with a carillon striking mechanism, striking the hours and quarter-hours with different melodies, the striking mechanism including a quarter surprise-piece coaxial to and superposed on the quarter-snail, in a limited angular travel with respect to the quarter-snail, arranged to ensure the sequential playing of the melodies of the four quarter-hours on the full hour, in the first minute of the new hour, and further including, in the plane of the quarter surprise-piece, a quarter surprise-piece jumper, arranged to drive and/or to lock this quarter surprise-piece.

Mechanical watch with a carillon striking mechanism

Timepiece striking mechanism including control means, releasable by a timepiece movement or by a user, and arranged to start a melody or striking sound, and melody selection means including a lever for selecting a selector mechanism arranged to allow the movement of a specific control-piece in order to perform a specific melody or striking sound, this striking mechanism including a safety mechanism for preventing the selection or the actuation of a melody or striking sound when a melody or striking sound is already being performed, this safety mechanism includes, for each control piece, a cam arranged to prevent the operation of the melody selection means by immobilizing the lever, when its control piece has started to perform a melody or striking sound.

Safety mechanism for selection and/or actuation of a timepiece striking work

Moon phase display mechanism including an input pinion which makes three revolutions, or respectively two revolutions, in 24 hours, and drives a 19-tooth or respectively 29-tooth drive pinion, which drives a 59-tooth lower wheel bearing a moon disc with a two-colored depiction including a lighted area and at least one background sky area and also drives a 57-tooth or respectively 58-tooth, upper wheel, coaxial to this lower wheel and which makes one revolution per day and which includes a sky disc with a depiction of the sun, and an aperture opposite this sun, through which is visible one part of this moon disc illustrating the current appearance of the moon.

Moon phase display mechanism

Chiming timepiece comprising a movement and an acoustic indication mechanism with a control mechanism controlling the performance of a chime or tune by setting control lifts in motion that each actuate a hammer arranged to strike a gong, and each control lift is releasable between a released position, in which it is decoupled from the control mechanism, and a resting position, in which it is able to be driven for actuation of the hammer by the control mechanism that is set in motion by the movement, or by a manual actuator, and tune selection devices for the selection of at least one particular chime or tune are controlled by this movement or by a manual selector and control the passage of each control lift from its released position to its resting position or vice versa.

Tune selection mechanism for a chiming timepiece

Timepiece or watch () or music box including an acoustic display mechanism (), for a striking timepiece (), including a plurality of control-pieces () for the same time measurement parameter, staged in parallel planes, and further including melody selection means (), arranged to be operated by a user or by the timepiece movement, controlling or prohibiting, at a given moment, access of the control-pieces () to a common snail () corresponding to said time measurement parameter, to allow only one of the control-pieces () to operate at least one lever () controlling the motion of a hammer to play a melody that is specific thereto or to activate at least one gong that is specific thereto.

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Les Rousses, France

Julien Behra