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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2013
Filed:
May. 21, 2008
Vincent Calabrese, Lausanne, CH;
Edmond Capt, Le Brassus, CH;
Sébastien Graf, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, CH;
Marco Rochat, Le Brassus, CH;
Vincent Calabrese, Lausanne, CH;
Edmond Capt, Le Brassus, CH;
Sébastien Graf, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, CH;
Marco Rochat, Le Brassus, CH;
Blancpain S.A., Le Brassus, CH;
Abstract
The timepiece movement includes a barrel, an escapement that has an escape wheel and pinion (), a balance () and a gear train for transmitting energy stored in the barrel to the escape wheel. This gear train has an intermediary wheel (), kinematically connected to the barrel by a first part of the gear train, and kinematically connected to the escape wheel () by a second part of the gear train, the second part of the gear train, and the escapement and balance are mounted in a rotating carriage () kinematically connected to the movement and arranged for rotating coaxially about the intermediary wheel () at a different speed from the speed of the intermediary wheel. The timepiece movement is characterized in that it imposes a speed of one revolution per minute on the carriage ().