Eta Sa Manufacture Horlogere Suisse

Michael Canonica

Vittorio Zanesco

Jean Laconte

Vincent Meyer

Roger Mueller

David Correa

Daniel Paraschivescu

Roger MÜLLER

A detector includes an elastic conductive blade having first and second ends and a central portion therebetween, with the blade being designed to be driven axially by a control rod to occupy three distinct positions between the pulled position and the end position of the rod: a pulled position, an end position, and an intermediate position. Two electrical contacts are designed to detect the end position and the pulled position of the rod, respectively. The blade is designed to pivot at its first end when the rod passes from the intermediate position to the pulled position, or vice versa. The blade is designed to undergo elastic deformation when the rod passes between the intermediate position and the end position so as to participate substantially in a restoring force of the rod toward the intermediate position when the axial activating force applied to the rod by a user is released.

Control device equipped with a module for detecting the axial position of its rod, and timepiece comprising such a control device

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St.-Blaise, Switzerland

Michael Canonica