Manufacture D'horlogerie Audemars Piguet Sa

Julien Martel

Giulio Papi

A timepiece has a watch movement including a complication of the chronograph or countdown type, a fixed body () and a display () with moiré effect for displaying a time information associated with the chronograph or the countdown. The display has a mobile disc () with an indicator () of the time information. The mobile disc () is connected to an axis () in engagement with the watch movement and arranged to rotate above or below the fixed body (). One of the mobile disc () and the fixed body () has a plurality of apertures () arranged over 360°. The other of the mobile disc () and the fixed body () includes a marking with a repetition of patterns including a first set of patterns having a first visual appearance () and a second set of patterns having a second visual appearance ().

Timepiece comprising a display with a moiré effect

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

An 'all or nothing' actuating mechanism for a timepiece movement is described, which includes: an actuating lever that is able to move between an inactive position and an active position; a movable control lever for moving the actuating lever between its inactive and active positions; a return member for returning the control lever to its initial position; and a control member capable of pivoting between a first state in which it locks the actuating lever in its inactive position, and a second state, in which it releases the actuating lever to allow it to move to its active position. The control lever is arranged to be able to act on the control member, and move it from its first state to its second state, the actuating mechanism including a jumper tending to return the control member to its first state.

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La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

Julien Martel