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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2016
Eta SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse, Grenchen, CH;
Matthaus Friedli, Solothum, CH;
Florent Strahm, Sonceboz-Sombeval, CH;
ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse, Grenchen, CH;
Abstract
A timepiece power source is provided, including a barrel containing a mainspring mounted between a drum and an arbor rotating integrally with a ratchet wheel, including a differential gear coaxial to the barrel, with a first input driven by the ratchet wheel, a second input which is the drum, and a pivoting output wheel, coaxial to the arbor, arranged to form or to drive a power reserve indicator, the differential gear including balls driving the output wheel, cooperating with an upper surface of the drum, and with a lower surface, which is opposite thereto, of a differential plate forming the first input, pivoting coaxially on the arbor and connected to the ratchet wheel by a friction means cooperating with a plate, and the ratchet wheel forms the cover of the barrel.