Montres Rado S.a.

The Swatch Group Management Services Ag

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd

Comadur Sa

Sébastien Bolzt

Rocco Catanese

Cedric Kaltenrieder

Christian Verdon

David Apothéloz

Sylvain Boucard

Yannick Hunziker

Clément Meyrat

Bertrand Carrard

Hakim El Kadiri

Alain Geiser

Domenico Leo

Armin Guenster

Michael Brunner

Caroline Haldimann

Armin Günster

Daniel Donze

André WÜTHRICH

Pascal Baumgartner

Nadine Wolfram

A device is provided for assembling a casing ring in a watch case middle including a bearing surface on an inner wall thereof, the casing ring including a housing opening in a lateral face of the casing ring, and in an upper or lower face of the casing ring. The device includes a locking part pivotable about a vertical axis of rotation passing through the upper or lower opening from a first position, in which the locking part is housed in the housing, to a second position, in which the locking part protrudes and abuts against the bearing surface of the inner wall of the case middle so as to hold the casing ring in the case middle. The locking part is snap-fitted in the housing and is pivotable about the vertical axis of rotation. A timepiece and a watch case fitted with the assembly device are also provided.

Device for assembling a casing ring in a watch case middle

Case for a timepiece, including a middle part with an upper portion for receiving a movement surmounted by a dial carrying an upper sub-assembly or a crystal, and a lower portion cooperating with a back cover. This middle part includes a device for the removal or adjustment of this upper sub-assembly or crystal, which includes a plurality of pushers each movable in relation to this middle part in a sink of this middle part parallel to an axial direction, to transmit, directly or indirectly via a push plate, only to this dial, a force applied to each pusher in this direction from this lower portion and transmitted by this dial to this upper sub-assembly or crystal.

Case for a timepiece

A hinged bracelet () includes a first component () hinged with a second component () by a hinge () along an axis (D). A single-piece, resilient compensation element () is imprisoned between said first and second components () to prevent any direct contact between said components radial to said axis (D), and to limit the relative angular travel thereof and includes, on either side of a central extensible layer (), at a first end at least one first extensible and compressible boss (), and at a second end at least one second extensible and compressible boss (), said first boss () and said second boss () projecting relative to said layer () and having a larger section than that of said layer () in a plane perpendicular to said axis (D).

Hinged bracelet

Housing insert for a spacer of a ceramic link for a bracelet, including a housing for receiving a spacer having one end. It includes an external machined portion arranged to cooperate with this housing and an internal machined portion including a substantially cylindrical bearing area, arranged to closely receive this end and having a smaller diameter than that of this end. An equipped link includes such a link and such an insert of this type fixed in this housing. A bracelet including includes a plurality of equipped lateral links into which removably mounted spacers are driven. This bracelet includes intermediate links assembled to pivot freely relative to these spacers or relative to pins pivotably mounted in these equipped links.

Watch bracelet with ceramic links

The invention concerns a timepiece including a case () and a crystal () together defining a housing () for a movement (), and further including an element that is mobile in rotation () actuated by a control member () including a stem () of longitudinal axis AA, passing radially through said case (), a crown () mounted on a first proximal end of said stem and a pinion () fixedly mounted in rotation on a second distal end of said stem (). The control member () is fitted with a part () for axially securing said pinion () on said stem (), arranged on the proximal side of said stem (), said securing part () including:

Watch with rotating element

The links () are formed by a set of parts () including at least two caps () including, on the one hand, means for assembling () their feet () to hold, between their heads () a decorative casing element (), and on the other hand, locking means () at the junction of their feet () for immobilising each link () on the connecting member. The preferred embodiment includes a rigid tube () assembling the feet () and holding a deformable insert locking the connecting member.

Necklace or bracelet with regularly spaced links on a flexible connecting member.

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Bienne, Switzerland

Sébastien Bolzt