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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7483340 | Timepiece The invention concerns a timepiece comprising a dial provided with means (7a, 7b) for selective and simultaneous analog display of respective hours of several time zones, distributed on two non-coaxial superimposed annular discs (9, 10... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7359289 | Watch provided with push-buttons comprising a mechanism for actuating delocalised control elements of a clockwork The invention concerns a watch including a case having a middle part and housing a watch movement having a time-setting stem in a first peripheral region, said movement further including a first and a second control member which are arranged on either side of the ti... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350968 | Case for a watch movement A watch case for an analog watch movement has a housing and a setting ring in a rotatably moveable and axially slideable relationship. The setting ring is coupled with a setting stem of the analog watch for rotation of the setting stem by rotation of the setting rin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7327374 | Structure-preserving clone brush The invention provides tools and techniques for clone brushing pixels in an image while accounting for inconsistencies in apparent depth and orientation within the image. The techniques do not require any depth information to be present in the image, and the data st... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324410 | Watch with special back A pocket or wrist watch has a unique back member that is constructed to hold a disc by adhesive means. The disc may impart special importance to the watch. It may be constructed from a gaming chip. The watch movement may be housed in another portion of a gaming chip... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7266050 | Device for date indication A device for the date indication in a watch, with a digit disk and a decimal disk, which each include a sequence of figures or numbers and are arranged next to each other in parallel in such a manner that they overlap within the region of an indicating position and ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7236429 | Timepiece showing current local time in main cities and countries in various time zones A timepiece includes first, second, and third clockwise rotating central shafts, a rotary dial joined to the first central shaft, a minute hand joined to the second central shaft, a second hand positioned around the rotary dial and joined to the third central shaft,... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7175341 | Wrist-portable apparatus To provide a wrist-portable equipment that may prevent malfunction of an internal rotational ring. There is provided a wrist-portable equipment including: a case, an internal rotational ring to be used as a display member for rotating independently and separately fr... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7136327 | Teaching hands for an analog timepiece Novel hour and minute hands for teaching reading and passage of time on an analog timepiece. The invention comprises hour and minute hands located centrally and pivotally on the timepiece. The hour hand having at its outer tip a shape through which the hour numerals... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7106661 | Calendar timepiece A calendar timepiece has a main plate, a time indicator mounted on the main plate for undergoing rotational movement to indicate time information, a date indicator mounted for undergoing rotation to indicate date information, and a date indicator driving wheel mount... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7075800 | Timepiece equipped with a device for displaying two time zones This timepiece is equipped with a device for displaying two different time zones and comprises three display units (1, 2, 3) driven by the minutes geartrain of the timepiece, two units (2, 3) comprising only means (5, 7, 6, 9) for indicating the... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7050357 | Global time indicator A global time indicating calculator has a clock member with a rotating dial for calculating global standard time and advanced time in various international time zones. Indicia printed on the face of the dial and corresponding boxes on oppositely opposed faces of the... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7025494 | Wrist-portable apparatus A wrist-portable apparatus has a case housing a rotational display member and an operational shaft for undergoing rotational movement and sliding movement relative to the case so that the operational shaft may be axially displaced between a pushed-in position, in wh... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6947351 | Watch equipped with means for determining a location longitude The invention concerns a watch equipped with means for determining a location longitude and a device for determining the sun's altitude above the horizon. Said watch comprises a mobile element (16) doing one full rotation in 12 hours and bearing a hour hand (... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6901032 | Timepiece from which sunrise and sunset time can be determined Disclosed is a timepiece from which a sunrise and sunset time along with the position of the sun can be determined. The sunrise time and the sunset time are changed according to the season and the latitude of the place where one man the time. People acquire the sunr... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6788622 | Global time indicator A global time indicating calculator has a rotating dial for calculating global standard time and advanced time in various international time zones. Indicia printed on the face of the dial and corresponding sections of the face of the calculator can be easily referen... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6744695 | Planisphere watch A planisphere watch includes a watch case having a transparent lens. A time keeping mechanism is disposed within the case and has a time display viewable through the lens. A planisphere map of star constellations and star systems is viewable through the lens. A rota... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6714485 | Timepiece with analogue display of time related information based on a decimal system A timepiece is disclosed allowing a reading of a first conventional time information by means of first analogue display means including a dial (5) and hours (4a) and minutes (4b) indicator members driven by a movement of the timepi... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6636457 | Clock movement with a display for world time zones A clock movement with a display for world time zones comprises a power source, a second counter, a minute counter, an hour counter, and a time zone display. The time zone display further comprises an intermediate base, a time zone adjustable ring, and a d... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6597635 | Timepiece A toothed correcting gear (33, 34), in engagement with means of angular positioning (35), kinematically links the stepwise, drive members (14, 15) of the display members with a time zones indicator gear (19, 20), toothing (34) of the said correcting gear ... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6579004 | Internet clock An internet watch in accordance with the present invention further comprises a beat hand 4 to indicate internet time and a beat dial 5 mounted on the circumferential outside of the watch having an hour hand 1, a minute hand 2, and a second hand 3, thereby... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6243324 | Universal digital time disk A universal digital time disk is printed on its central portion with name of places on behalf of the known 24 time zones in the world, and on its next outer zone with name of four continents: the Australia, the Asia, the Europe and Africa, and the America... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6141295 | Display setting arrangement for a timepiece A display setting arrangement for a timepiece, having a 12-hour display, on which, driven in a rotatable manner by a basic mechanism with two revolutions every 24 hours, the hours can be displayed. There is also a second hour display, which can be driven ... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6134186 | Multi-area clock or watch A multi-area clock or watch includes a base disc, a position ring and an annular hour area section combined together. The hour area section is marked with time differences between countries, the names of countries, and indicating signs. Then the hour area... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5943298 | Multi-dimensional calendar A multi-dimensional calendar (10) for indicating the day, date and month. The multi-dimensional calendar (10) includes three disks (28), (30) and (32). The first disk (28) has a circumference and includes indicia indicative of the date printed about a per... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5917778 | Geographical chronological device A geographical chronological device which simultaneously indicates the time in multiple cities or countries, and displays fluctuations in day or night in a geographic location. The earth clock has a semi-transparent world map depicting a polar planetary p... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5745440 | Time equipment with time zone mechanism A time equipment with time zone mechanism includes a 24-hour dial, an hour hand and a minute hand mounted for rotating above said dial, a movement for driving said hour hand and minute hand to rotate one revolution per 24 hours, a time zone mechanism, and... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5631878 | Time equipment A time equipment includes a case, a dial, and an hour and a minute indicating hands mounted for rotating above the dial. A movement is installed in the case for driving the hour indicating hand to rotate one revolution in 24 hours. A time setting device i... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5572489 | Timepiece with rotatable outer ring A universal timepiece (10) having a manually operable outer ring (33) for selecting one of twenty-four time zones, where a display indicates the time of the time zone selected. For this purpose a device for detecting the rotational position of the outer r... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5524102 | Global timepiece A structural improvement for the global timepiece principally makes use of an hour wheel which engages and drives a post hour wheel and thereto engages and drives a city wheel through a post hour pinion which is on the same shaft as the post hour wheel, a... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5383165 | Timepiece with a universal time display The invention concerns a timepiece including a horometric movement (M) with a dial train (8, 46), at least one hours hand (4) which is mounted on an hours pipe (4a) driven by the dial train, a rotary ring (48) driven by the hours pipe so as to effect one ... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5323363 | Timepiece with simultaneous time display for at least two time zones A timepiece for simultaneously indicating the time for at least two time zones, the timepiece comprising a watch movement; a dial, an hour indicating hand and a minute indicating hand, the hour indicating and minute indicating hands being mounted for rota... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5285427 | Timepiece in which the hours display may be independently modified, in particular when passing to another time zone A timepiece including: an inner hours pipe (2) supporting a lower wheel (6), an outer pipe (30) mounted on the inner pipe (2) and supporting an upper wheel (32) arranged above the lower wheel (6), a star (12) mounted on the hours pipe (2) and fixed in rot... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5228722 | Time zone conversion chart for a ticket folder The present invention is directed to a travel document folder, such as an airline ticket folder, U-rail pass folder, passport holder, or the like, having a time zone conversion chart rotatably mounted to one leaf of the folder. In the preferred embodiment... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5210721 | Analog universal timepiece An analog universal watch has an area dial 4 showing different areas of the world attached to an area dial spindle 10 and an area dial wheel 11 linked to a timepiece drive mechanism through a minute wheel 15. A pawl fastened to an hour wheel 17 engages wi... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5197043 | Night and day earth clock calendar A clock, a calendar, and a two dimensional model of the earth viewed looking at the polar axis as the earth is rotated during a twenty-four hour period thus showing day and night, dawn and dusk. The shadow cast on the earth by the absence of the sun's ray... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5146436 | Universal world clock A universal world clock (10) for indicating universal standard and fast time at any geographical location in the world. A south polar projected world map superimposed onto a manually rotatable map disk (14) is divided with twenty-four time zone indicator ... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5107468 | Structure of world time clock for 24-hour indication Disclosed is a world time clock, which has an hour plate designed to rotate at a constant speed of 24 hours for one turn. The hour plate is printed with the official name of world important countries according to world time zone classification so that eve... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5098101 | Method of recording and tracking timed events in a game A recorder of multiple events and durations of time, using one or more rotatably mounted dials graduated in a clockwise direction, with a means for displaying temporary memoranda which describe events associated with the said graduations, and used for dir... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5054008 | World time device A device for determining the time anywhere in the world, simultaneously, relative to any selected geographical location. A circuit map is positioned over a frame and is rotatable in a clockwise direction relative to the frame, the map being a south pole p... | 10/01/1991 |
