HK1055334A - An operating unit for the setting devices of a watch and watches incorporating such a unit - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a control unit intended for integration into a watch with a main setting having at least two positions, a rest position and at least one retracted position, and with at least one secondary setting, and to watches of any type suitable for their integration and having such a control unit, in particular a world clock for analogue time display and an associated location in different time zones with a shift relative to local time of a multiple of one or half hours, allowing simultaneous, unambiguous reading of times in the indicated time zones.

Since the introduction of the world time zone following the Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. in 1884, purpose-built clocks have been produced in a variety of designs and functions.These clocks often have at least one additional hand to indicate the time in the time zone chosen, in addition to the minute and hour hands rotating in the centre, and some of these have a means of identifying the time zone displayed, such as a permanent print, a rotating ring with worlds inscribed or similar.

The patent FR 2.672.399 shows a world clock with an additional analogue display which shows the time in a time zone different from the local time. This clock may also have another concentrically placed hand which serves as the display of a location representative of the time zone chosen and can be set to different positions by means of a printer.

The patent CH 665.930 describes a world clock with at least one additional display, whereby the additional time is indicated by means of, where appropriate, three additional dials not concentrically placed on the central main dial, each with a clock face which rotates in 24 hours. Each of these additional dials is a local time display in the form of a dial similar to a date face and a separate crown with two positions. The latter also allows the additional dials to be set simultaneously in their intended position, in which the corresponding additional dials are positioned independently of the other dials, in accordance with the desired time, and the time and the world time. The main dials have three separate crowns, which are set in a position similar to the time face, but in particular if the time face is set to the desired position and the time is set to the middle position, and the time is set to the second position, but in the case of a clock face, the time is set to the middle position.

The patent EP 0 558 756 also concerns a world clock with at least one additional analogue display for the time in different world time zones. Again, the secondary dials are not concentrically arranged around the central main dial and a crown with three positions allows the clock to be raised, the date set and the time set simultaneously in all the time displays in their unfolded position or in the first and second position respectively. For easy setting of the additional time displays, these each have a printer that adjusts their time by one hour each time press. However, the absence of the additional displays assigned to the local area, which allow the identification of the time displays at each time, which would be easily read in these zones, can sometimes lead to a considerable increase in the number of time displays, especially because of the large number of additional displays.

However, none of the applications mentioned has a simple and optimal arrangement of the various settings or operation of the associated adjustment devices, so that the various displays of such watches can typically either be set only in a relatively complicated way or some useful functions of complex watches are simply suppressed for this reason, among other reasons.

The purpose of the present invention is to avoid the above disadvantages and to create a control unit which allows a choice between a first function of the secondary setting of a watch and a second function of this secondary setting, and thus to create clocks incorporating this control unit, in particular a world clock for analogue time display and a corresponding location in different time zones with a shift relative to the local time of a multiple of a whole or half hour, which allows simultaneous, unambiguous reading of the times in the time zones indicated and prevents accidental setting of the clock and in particular allows a quick, simple operation and adjustment.

The present invention therefore concerns an operating unit distinguished by the marks given in claims 1 and/or dependent claims and watches defined from claim 8.

The illustrations in this annex are an example of an embodiment of a world clock incorporating this control unit and the control unit itself according to the present invention.

Figure 1 is a schematic view of the world clock with a main display and three additional side displays including the corresponding hands and controls.

Figures 2a to c show in a schematic manner the controls of the world clock, in particular the crown, in their different positions.

Figures 3a and 3b illustrate the principle of the choice of the world location and the hourly correction of a side-display.

Figure 4 shows the minute hand in a simplified way.

Figures 5a to 5c illustrate the wheel arrangement of the hour hand.

Figure 6 shows the wheel arrangement of the day-night display.

Figure 7 is a view of the wheel arrangement of the date display.

Figures 8a to e are longitudinal and transverse sections of the tip for selecting the functions of the side-view printers.

Figures 9a to 9c show schematic views of the control mechanism for the controls.

Figures 10a to 10c show the mechanism for hourly correction of a side-clock display.

Figures 11a to 11b illustrate the mechanism for selecting a World Heritage Site in a side-show ad.

Figures 12a to 12b show the blocking mechanism for the World Heritage Sites in interaction with the crown.

The invention will now be described in detail by reference to the accompanying illustrations, which are an exemplary embodiment of the invention.

The world clock 1 shown in Figure 1 is modular in design, with a mechanical module under a main dial for the display of the various time zones and other displays, where possible, which contains most of the functions of the clock.

As can be seen further from Figure 1, in the centre of a main dial 2 there is an analogue main time display 4 with hour 19, minute 20 and second 21, whereby the hour 19 makes two revolutions per day on the main dial 2 preferably in a 12-digit layout, and the second 21 is optional. Normally the main dial 4 shows the local time, but it can also show the time zone of any other location of importance to the carrier. Another option is a date display of the world of 7, through which the 24-sided data window, in this case formed in the main dial 2, is displayed twice a day, which is located in a key position at the centre of the main dial 2 at a given angle, and the time zone 4 is also located at the extreme right of the main dial 17 or at the extreme left of the main dial.

Several, in the example described here, three side-dials 3 are not concentric and their centres 28 are preferably, at least on one side, at equal angular distance from each other, arranged in a circle around the centre 27 of the main dial 2. These side-dials 3 also have preferably a 12's display 8 and a world torter 18 with a 24's display 9 showing lists of world locations 6, both of which can be designed in a variety of ways analogous to the main dial 2. Each of these side-dials 3 serves as an analogue side-dialer 5, a side-dialer with two turns per day for 22 hours and a 23 minute time-indicator and a world-dialer 15.In the case of a watch, the time displayed is the time when the watch is at rest and can be moved 24 times for a turn by means of an adjustment device 12 to identify the time zone displayed. Optionally, a side-display 5 may also have a day-night display 10, whereby, for example, a dial under the side-dial divided into six sectors rotates once every 72 hours and a day-night display 25 gives the wearer advance information about the beginning of the morning or evening. Otherwise, it is possible to give the side-sheets 3 a 24-digit number, thus showing the time in the time zone displayed.The Commission has therefore decided to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 8 (2) of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 in respect of the application of the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1225/2009 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal.

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The hour hand 19, 22 of all time signals 4.5 rotate synchronously with each other during the normal movement of the clock, indicating the time of the respective time zone according to the selected world location. The minute hand 20, 23 of all time signals also rotate synchronously with each other, whereby, as mentioned, the minute hand 23 of a side-time hand 5 for half-hour zones is rotated 180° relative to the minute hand 20 of the main time sign 4 and the minute hand 23 of a side-time hand 5 for full-hour zones can be omitted due to the correspondence with the minute hand 20 of the main time sign 4. In addition, the day-night hands 10 rotate synchronously with each other. The rotating world hands 15 o'clock are not in normal gear, but are later set up by a mechanical mechanism that can be adjusted manually.

The analogue design of main dial 2 and side dial 3 facilitates reading of the smaller side dial; the mapping of a world location 6 to a side dial 3 using the world location indicator 15 and the world ring 18 uniquely identifies the time zone displayed; and the day-night indicator 10 indicates whether it is morning, evening, day or night in the chosen world location.

Before going into more detail on the other essential elements of a world clock according to the present invention, the following is intended to be a brief introduction to the functioning and nomenclature of the wheel mechanism of the mechanical module for analogue display.

The main parts of the wheel arrangement of the minute hand 100 can be seen in Figure 4, where the rotation directions of the wheels involved are represented by arrows. A minute hand 50 drives, on the one hand, a minute hand 52 of a side time hand 5 on which the minute hand 23 of the side time hand 5 is fixed, and on the other hand is connected to an unmarked minute hand which supports the minute hand 20 of the main time hand 4.

Figure 5 shows the wheel arrangement of the hour hand 101, with the minute hand 53 in contact with a shift wheel 54 which drives a shift wheel 55 a clock wheel 56 of the main time hand 4 which carries the hour hand 19 of the main time hand 4. The clock wheel 56 of the main time hand 4 also drives a clock wheel 58 of a side time hand 5 with a clock wheel 59 carrying the hour hand 22 of the side time hand 5 each time via an intermittent clock wheel 57, which is connected in each side time hand 5 to the 58 of the clock hand by means of a clock wheel 109, consisting of a star 63, a ruler 64 and a spring wheel 65, connected in a continuous manner with the side time hand 5 of the clock hand 58.In addition, in normal operation, at each side-indicator 5 the clock is free to rotate simultaneously with an hour-wheel 60 and a corrector wheel 66, which are in contact with the hour-wheel 59 and the hour-wheel 58 of the side-indicator 5 respectively, and with a corrector wheel 67, which is in contact with the corrector wheel 66. This is possible because, as shown in Figure 5c, the corrector wheel 67 cooperates with a first dial 70, with the first dial 70 being able to slide slightly over this first dial 70, each of which is supported by a spring 69 pressed against it from the side.The proof wheel 67 has, as will be explained in detail in the description given in Figures 10c and 11b, a double clutch 108 capable of picking up and transmitting two opposite movements, the normal course of the watch and the opposite movement of the proof wheel.

The day-night display 10 of each side-time display 5 is each securely connected to a day-night display wheel 62 and is driven, as shown in Figure 6 of the wheel arrangement of the day-night display 102, by an hourly gear unit 61 connected to the hourly gear wheel 60 synchronously to the hourly display wheel 59 of the respective side-time display 5.

The date-dial 7 is known to be driven by a wheel of the date-dial 103 shown in Figure 7. The minute tube 53 drives a date-dial 93 which is connected to the date-dial 94 which in turn is engaged with the date-dial 95. This rotates in 24 hours, thus moving the latter once a day by means of the switch 96 attached to it and the gear on the inside of the date-dial 7 by a 1/31 rotation around its axis.

A world clock 1 according to the present invention also has a number of operating and adjusting elements, which are now explained in more detail by means of Figures 2a-c and 3a-b.

A main time-keeping device in the shape of a crown 11 protruding from the outside of the case 14 has three stopping positions. An un-drawn rest position 11a is used to raise the base, as symbolically shown by arrows in Figure 2a. A first drawn position 11b is used to correct the hour display and the date display of the main time-keeping device 4 by three hourly steps, as shown in Figure 2b. The clock face 19 of the main time-keeping device 4 makes three independent twisting positions in twelve steps, allowing a quick and convenient turn of the clock, with a period of about 4.5 minutes when changing from summer time to daylight or from winter to daylight. The clock face and the date face of the main time-keeping device 4 always act as a pre-heating mechanism when the clock face is moved in two steps, which also ensures a continuous turn of the second position 11 and the clock face in the second position 11 and the clock face in the second position 11 and the clock face in the second position 11 and the clock face in the second position 11 and the clock face in the second position 11 and the clock face in the second position 11.

The world clock also has an auxiliary adjustment device for each of the additional analogue time displays 5 in the form of a printer 12 which is also mounted on the side opposite or adjacent to the case 14 of the world clock 1 and the associated side time display 5. Such printers with a corresponding pressure mechanism 104 are known from chronographs, for example, and are movable parts with their own pressure spring which, when pressed, automatically accelerate back to the output 12a.These printers have two functions: first, in so far as the minute display of the side-indicators 5 as described above is controlled by the main time-indicator 4 via the crown 11, they allow the hour hand 22 of the side-indicators 5 to be adjusted independently of each other and of the minute hand 23 of the side-indicators 5 and of all hands 19, 20, 21 of the main time-indicator 4, with the hour hand 22 and the day-night-time-indicator 10 being synchronized by one hour each time the side-indicator 5 is moved, as shown in Figure 3b.Secondly, as shown in Figure 3a, after a change in the printer function described below, the corresponding world position indicator 15 is switched by 1/24 of a turn by pressing a printer 12 and the world position indicator 15, the hour hand 22 and the day-night indicator 10 of a side-time indicator 5 move simultaneously, without affecting all other display elements, thus allowing the same simple, quick and safe adjustment of the world position indicator and the corresponding time in the side-time indicators 5 as the main time indicator 4.

This dual functionality of the pusher 12 is ensured in the case described here by the elements of a world clock according to the invention shown in Figures 10 and 11. When a pusher 12 is operated, the hand 22 of the corresponding side-indicator 5 is adjusted on the one hand through a pusher 12 whose movable pusher 43 ends with one end of the tip 47 in such a way that a connecting piece 74 mounted at the other end of the tip moves so that this in turn rotates a ring coaxially to the first ring wheel 70 located at 72 at a certain angle around its axis β1. This is shown in Figure 10b with the symbol of the hand-pinned pulley,where, for the sake of clarity, the first position of the parts is marked by dashed lines and the second position by continuous lines and the less important part of the wheelwork of the hour hand 101 is indicated only by dashed lines and shown in detail in Figure 10c with the correction mechanism 107. In so far as the ring 72 is equipped with ring pins 73 which can be hooked into a second ring 71 the latter also performs a corresponding rotation as the ring 72. The first ring 70 fixed to the second ring 71 intervenes by means of its lever in the ring 68 pressed laterally to this ring with the gear 69 fitted to the wheel 69As shown in Figure 10a, the rectifier 67 moves the rectifier 66 and the hour hand 60 which in turn is engaged with the hour hand 59. As shown in Figure 5, each hour hand 58 is a side-hand 5 to which the hour hand 22 is connected by coupling the 109 hour hand. Overcoming the force exerted by the spring 65 on the wheel 64 of this coupling 109 can be achieved by applying this force 64 to the next gear of the corresponding gear,The time-piece is then rotated by twelve or twenty-four-toothed stars 63 and thus a mutual twist between the clock wheel 58 of a side-indicator 5 and the corresponding clock wheel 59 around the angle β2, which corresponds to one hour step.

After the change of the printer function described below, the second is that, by means of the printer 12, as illustrated in Figures 11a and 11b, the direction indicator 15 can be adjusted to a side-view display 5 by means of a schematic representation of the movement sequence and detailed views in the cross section and view of the double coupling 108 of the rectifier 67. This adjustment is carried out in the same way as described in the previous section, with the difference that not only the rectifier 67 is adjusted by the moving clips attached to it, but also a concentric rectifier 67 is rotated to each direction, each direction being adjusted to the other direction, by means of a friction brake.This dial 80 is equipped with a clutch of the hour hand 109 analogue, known star-resistant clutch 110 shown above, which has a rally 82, a spring 83 and a star 81 with twenty-four teeth and therefore allows the setting of the dial 15 in 1/24 rotations for a rotation. While in the first mode of operation of a printer 12 only the hour hand 22 and the day-night indicator 10 of the corresponding side-hand 5 are moved, in the second mode the corresponding dial 15 also rotates.

As can be seen from Figure 1, a world clock according to the present invention has a special control unit in the form of a switch 13 to select the above function of the pusher 12 for the side-indicators 5. This switch 13 can be realized, for example, as a push-button with two positions 13a and 13b, with the part of the switch that protrudes from the case 14 indicating the function setting of the push-button 12. According to Figure 3a, the switch 13 is pressed downwards for setting the world position indicator 15 to a side-indicator 5 and, as in Figure 3b, upwards for setting the hour hand 22 to a side-indicator 5.For this purpose, two symbols corresponding to these functions may be optionally placed near the two ends of the 13th pin on the case 14 or directly on the 13th pin. A preferred embodiment of such a 13th pin is shown schematically in Figures 8a to e. In two cavities on the inside of the two ends of the 13th pin, a swivel contact pin 131 and a stop pin, mounted on the case 14, are placed in the form of a so-called stop screw 132 attached there, and the 13th pin is located in a flat opening on the side of the 14th pin, the 1st pin is also located in the centre of the 13th pin,The stop screw 132 which can be adjusted by turning, for example by means of a screwdriver, in order to fine-tune the position of the pulley 13 is placed as a component with a part of double conical shape in a corresponding hole on the housing 14 in such a way that the rotational motion of the pulley 13 is directed in its two positions 13a and 13b by means of springs 134 and a plate 135.When the spring 13 is pressed, as shown in Figure 8e, the two ends of spring 134 attached to spring 13 slide over the double-cone head of the stop screw 132 so that a clear click is heard, which confirms to the wearer that the spring has been turned.The housing 14 is a perforated hole into which the contact pin 131 is passed by means of a seal casing 137 and a seal ring or O-ring 138 which are placed in this hole, thus simultaneously providing watertightness to the inside of the housing, with the parts inside the housing cooperating. This cooperation, which allows the above-mentioned adjustment of the pressure function, involves, in addition to a whip mechanism 105, a specific locking mechanism 106 and is further understood by the illustration 11a. When the whip 13 is set in its first position, pushed upwards, the contact pin 131 is pressed by the corresponding hole, with one end of which is moved 84 to the other end of this whip, which is then pushed 85 to the other end of the whip.The calculating wheel is connected to a rotating wheel 86 by means of an arm of a rotating wheel 86, so that the rotational motion transmitted by the rotating wheel 85 through a second arm of the calculating wheel 86 is transmitted to a first rotating wheel 87 and from that to a second rotating wheel 88.This prevents the setting of the WLTP 15 of the side-time display 5 in the upward pressed position 13a of the turn 13, while in the second downward pressed position 13b of the turn 13, the spring 92 disengages the locking lever 91 from the WLTP 80 wheel and thus also allows the setting of the WLTP 15.

This locking mechanism 106 can also be operated by pulling the crown 11 as shown in Figures 12a to 12b. When the crown is pulled, and thus the lifting shaft 41 and the lifting shaft 42, a pivoting angle lever 33 is moved around an axis approximately in its centre. This in turn acts on a control lever 32 which drives a handset 97 at a certain angle with the curve wheel 89 in play, by means of a second curve wheel 98 each pressing the locking lever 91 of a block 5 on the corresponding world direction indicator 80. This excludes one of the 15 world direction indicators in the first and second pulled positions of the crown 11 while the world direction indicator 11 and the world direction indicator 15 can be moved on the 11 world direction indicator 11 in the reverse direction of the rotation of the world direction indicator 92.

Finally, the world clock 1 has a control mechanism 30 as shown in Figure 9 with its main components, which controls the function of the movable control elements crown 11, pusher 12 and swivel 13 by locking or releasing each other in a way which is transparent to the user, so that both damage to the clock and an accidental adjustment of one of the time signals 4.5 are excluded by simultaneous operation of the crown 11 and the pusher 12.However, if the crown 11 is in one of its pulled positions 11b or 11c, as shown symbolically by crossed arrows in Figures 2b and 2c, the 12th pusher is no longer operated, so that the setting of an element of the additional time signals 5 is excluded and only the setting corresponding to the position of the crown 11 can be performed, i.e. the setting in hourly steps of the hour and date of the main time signals 4 in the first pulled position 11b of the crown 11 simultaneously and the setting of both the hour 19 and minute 20 of the main time signals 4 and the hour and minute 22 and 23 of the second pulled position 11c of the second pulled position 5.The 13th lever can still be used in the 11b and 11c positions of the 11th crown when pulled, but without any effect; on the other hand, when the 11th crown is in its resting position 11a, the 11th lever is blocked by pressing at least one of the 12th pins, so that the 12th lever cannot be pulled simultaneously while a 12th lever is being operated and the adjustment functions of the 12th and 11th pins cannot be performed simultaneously in this configuration.

This control of the controls is achieved by the mechanism described in Figure 9. The main component of this control mechanism 30 in the exemplary embodiment is a control ring 31 concentrically placed around the centre 27 of the world clock 1 which is operated by a lever and a lever which are advantageously identical to the control lever 32 and the angular lever 33 mentioned, which cooperates with the lift shaft 41 and the lift shaft 42, i.e. with the crown 11, and has 34 side incisions on the outside of the presses 12 opposite to the one.the angle lever 33 shall operate at least two different radial positions 31a and 31b, the first position 31a corresponding to the rest position 11a and the second position 31b corresponding to the position 11b or 11c of the crown 11 drawn.In the drawn positions 11b and 11c of the crown 11 this is not the case, so that the pushers 12 are blocked by the push of the pins 44 to the outer edge of the ring 31 when trying to push.

Without explicit mention of this in the individual sections of the specification, the individual mechanical parts and their specific arrangement are not limited to the embodiments described, but can be replaced in a functionally identical manner without affecting the scope of the inventive step revealed in the present invention.

For example, the detailed design of the control unit 13 for selecting the two functions of the printers 12 may be subject to various changes within the scope of the inventive step, such as the replacement of the switch 13 by one or two adjacent push-buttons which also confirm visually and/or audibly the switching of the function of the printers 12 which results from their operation.

In particular, a world clock in which no time is assigned to the time zone corresponding to the world location 6 for the time indicated in a side-display 5 is also feasible as a further embodiment, thus eliminating the dual functionality of the secondary controls 12 and thus the control unit 13 to choose their function.

Similarly, in a world clock with the above-described indication of a corresponding world location 6 it is also possible to suppress the control mechanism 30 for the times indicated in the side-clock displays 5 for example to reduce production costs.

The above-described embodiments of a world clock according to the present invention give a rough picture of the range of changes and variations which may be made to a world clock according to the present invention, but, as mentioned, due to the large number of components, no changes in the individual parts are considered, without this being a limiting interpretation.

The main elements of the present invention, namely a control unit for selecting the function of a clock's tuning device and a control mechanism for coordinating the functions and operation of a clock's main and secondary tuning devices, can of course also be used in clocks of another type, which has the same requirements and sets the same requirements for such components as the world clock presented. They are therefore also to be considered in isolation in terms of their respective characteristics.

For example, it is possible to use the above-mentioned control mechanism in a chronograph, which is usually analogue or digital, as in the case of a world clock. In such a case, the chronograph usually has either a chronograph display integrated in its main time display or a separate side display, which is usually equipped with one or two additional chronograph or stop indicators for time measurement. Such a chronograph therefore usually also has a main control device with at least two positions for setting the main time display and at least one of the chronograph indicators or the secondary control device assigned to its indicator.

The same applies to the control unit for selecting the function of a watch tuner, whether in the form of a swivel, a push-button or the like, which can be used in any watch which has tuners with at least two different functions.

The scope of the present invention therefore covers both the two core elements of the invention, the control unit for selecting the function of a watch tuning device and the control mechanism for coordinating the functions and operation of a watch's main and auxiliary tuning device, per se, and the combination of these devices with corresponding watches of various kinds suitable for integrating these components.

Claims (28)

1. An control unit (13) designed to be integrated into a watch (1) with a main setting (11), which has at least two stopping positions (11a to c), a resting position (11a) and at least one pulling position (11b, 11c), and with at least one secondary setting (12), is characterised by the fact that it allows a choice between a first function of the secondary setting (12) and a secondary function of these secondary sets (12).
2. Control unit (13) as described above, characterised by the fact that the control unit is in the form of a hinge (13) with two positions (13a, 13b), the part of the hinge (13) protruding from the case (14) of the watch indicating the setting of the auxiliary adjustment device (12).
3. The control unit (13) as described above is characterised by the fact that the clock face (13) is rotatable on the side of the case (14) of the watch (1) around an axis (133) approximately in the centre of the clock face, that an adjustable stop pin (132) is located in a corresponding hole in the case (14) in such a way as to direct the switch movement of the clock face (13) in its two positions, and that a contact pin (131) is located on an associated base which is watertight and can interact with the interior of the clock face (14) of the penetrating hole in a manner which is waterproof.
4. Control unit (13) according to one of claims 2 or 3 characterised by the fact that the swivel (13) cooperates with a double-cone element (132) by means of at least one spring (134) and a plate (135) to guide the swivel movement of the swivel (13) in its two positions and to confirm the swiveling of the swivel by acoustic means.
5. Control unit (13) as described in claim 1, characterised by the fact that the control unit (13) is in the form of a push-button with two positions (13a, 13b), the push-button protruding from the case (14) of the watch indicating the setting of the auxiliary adjustment device (12).
6. Control unit (13) according to one of the above claims, characterised by the cooperation between the control unit (13) and the parts of the watch (1) inside the case based on a swivel mechanism (105) and a locking mechanism (106).
7. The control unit (13) is characterized by the above claim, which states that the said swivel mechanism (105) consists in the fact that the control unit (13) when set in its first position (13a) pushes a contact pin (131) through a corresponding bore through the housing (14) slightly inwards, whereby a swivel pusher (84) placed at its end transmits this movement to a swivel number (85) at the other end of this swivel number, which is itself adjustable at its end, and whose number is in contact with an arm of a swivel wheel (86) so that the swivel number (85) is transferred from the rotation of the second arm to a second wheel (86) at the last end of the swivel wheel (97) and a second wheel (88) is transferred from this wheel to a second wheel (88) at the intermediate end, which is in contact with a swivel wheel (88).
8. A watch with a main adjustment device (11) having at least two rest positions (11a to c), a rest position (11a) and at least one pull position (11b, 11c), and with at least one secondary adjustment device (12) having the characteristic of having an operating unit (13) according to one of the preceding conditions.
9. A clock according to the previous claim, characterised by being a world clock with an analogue main time display (4) and at least one analogue side display (5), each of which has an auxiliary time display (12) and an analogue display (15, 18) of a world location corresponding to the time zone indicated (6), whereby the control unit (13) allows the choice between a first function of the auxiliary time display (12) to set the time of the auxiliary time display (5) independently of all other displays and a second function of these auxiliary time display devices (12), to set the time display (15) of a corresponding world location (6).
10. The timepiece according to claims 6 and 9 is characterised by the fact that the locking mechanism (106) of the control unit (13) allows the analogue display (15) of one of the world locations (6) corresponding to the time zone indicated to be blocked against a setting.
11. The locking mechanism (106) is characterised by the fact that, in the first position (13a) of the control unit (13), a curved disc (90) mounted on a curved disc wheel (89) exerts a force on each of the locking levers (91) by a rotation transmitted to it (5) exceeding that exerted by a spring (92) of the locking lever (91) on this force, so that this locking lever (91) is pressed laterally on an associated torus (80) of a side-clock (5) and thus prevents its rotation, while in the second position (13b) of the control unit (13) the locking lever (92) is released from the side-clock (91) and can be used to release a torus (80) on any side-clock.
12. A watch according to one of the claims 8 to 11 is characterised by the fact that the auxiliary adjustment device (12) is made in the form of a pusher (12) mounted on the side of the case (14) of the watch (1) and the corresponding auxiliary time-indicator (5) opposite or adjacent to it.
13. The clock as described above is characterised by the fact that the pushers (12) have two positions (12a, 12b) each and a mechanism with a pressure point consisting of a spring (48) and a corresponding spring (47) so that the pushers in the pushed position (12b) automatically accelerate back to the starting position (12a) when released and a minimum pressure is required to perform the push function.
14. A clock according to one of claims 9 to 13 characterised by the fact that, in the first position (13a) of the control unit (13), when an auxiliary control device (12) is operated, the corresponding secondary indicator (5) is set in hourly steps by a hand clock face (22) mounted on a timer wheel (59).
15. The clock, as described above, is characterized by the fact that the positioning of the hour hand (22) of a side-indicator (5) is by means of a slide-out lever (43) which can be moved with the side-indicator (12) and whose end is so coordinated with one end of a lever (47) that a connecting piece (74) rotatable at its other end moves so that this in turn rotates a ring (72) which is coaxial to a first dial (70) about a given axis (β1) so that, since the ring (72) is fitted with a ring (73) which can be inserted into a second dial (71), the latter also operates a three-pronged action on the ring (72) and the second dial (71) so that the ring (77) is fixed on the second dial (71) by means of a corresponding mechanism (68) which is inserted into the first dial (69) by means of a spring (52).
16. The correction mechanism (107) is characterised by the fact that a correction wheel (67) by the intervention of the first dial (70) in the said clips mounted in motion on the first dial (67) produces a rotation corresponding to that of the first dial (70) by the correction wheel (67) moving a correction wheel (66) and a clockwise wheel (60), which in turn is engaged by a clockwise wheel (59), and an hourwise wheel (58) of a side-clockwise wheel (5) with the hourwise wheel (22) of the clockwise wheel (5) by a rotation of the four hourwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise clockwise c
17. A clock according to one of claims 9 to 16 characterised by the fact that, in the second position (13b) of the control unit (13), when a secondary control device (12) is operated, a secondary control device (15) mounted on a direction indicator wheel (80) is set to the corresponding direction indicator (5).
18. The timepiece is characterised by the fact that the setting of the world-intercept (15) of a side-time display (5) consists in each case, in addition to a rectifier wheel (67), of a friction wheel (76) rotating concentrically to that wheel with the aid of a friction spring (77) and that the friction wheel (76) rotates at each side-time display (5) via a first world-intercept (78) and second world-intercept (79) interfacing with the corresponding world-intercept (80); a rotation of the world-intercept (15) is effected in so far as this world-intercept (80) is equipped with a rotation of the clock-intercept (109) with an analogue star-intercept (110), which is a rotor (82), a spring (83) and a twenty-four-pin (84) for the set-up of the world-intercept, and is therefore equipped with a rotor (1/2) for the set-up of the world-intercept.
19. A watch according to one of the claims 8 to 18 is characterised by having a main adjustment device (11) protruding from the outside of the case (14) with three stopping positions (11a to c), one resting position (11a) and two pulling positions (11b, 11c).
20. The main setting device is made in the form of a crown (11) whose un-drawn rest position (11a) is used to raise the clock in the case of a mechanical base, whose first drawn position (11b) allows the correction of the hour hand and a date hand (7) of the main time (4) by clock steps in both directions, whereby a clock hand (19) of the main time (4) independently of the minute hand (20) of the main time (4) makes a twelve-step circumference and three-step forward and backward movements of the clock hand (19) of the main time (4) whereby the 12-hour position (7) in this position of the crown (11) always moves forward, a clock hand (11) and a clock hand (4) in both directions, also allowing a three-step forward and backward movement of the clock hand (19) of the main time (4) and the clock hand (7) in this position of the crown (11), whereby the clock hand (11) always moves forward, and a clock hand (114, 23) in the same position of the main time (19, 23) and the clock hand (11) in both directions.
21. The watch, as described above, is characterised by the fact that by pulling the crown (11) a locking mechanism (106) is operated to prevent the setting of a world-clock (15) on a world-clock wheel (80) of each side-clock (5) in a pulled position (11b, 11c) of the crown.
22. The locking mechanism (106) is characterised by the use of a crown to pull a crank (41) and a crank (42) so that a swiveling angle lever (33) is moved about an axis approximately in its centre and this moves on a control lever (32) which moves a handpiece (97) engaged by a crank (89) by a certain angle, so that a second crank (98) each presses a locking lever (91) of a three-point indicator (5) on the side of the corresponding world-points (80) which are moved in the first and second positions, 11 (11) a crown of the world-points (111) a crown of the world-points (111) and a crown of the world-points (112) while the world-points (111) and (11) are moved in the rear positions of the world-points (90) and the world-points (111) are moved in the rear positions. (15) The world-points (111) and (11) are sometimes excluded from the world-points (80) while the world-points (111) and (15) are in the rear positions of the world-points.
23. A watch according to one of the claims 8 to 22 characterised by having a control mechanism (30) which allows the main setting (11) and the secondary setting (12) to be controlled in such a way that the functions of the main setting (11) cannot be performed simultaneously with those of the secondary setting (12) except by raising the watch to its resting position (11a).
24. The watch, as described above, is characterised by the fact that the main component of the control mechanism (30) is made up of a control ring (31) concentrically placed around the centre (27) of the watch (1).
25. The control ring (31) is co-operated by means of a control lever (32) and an angle lever (33) with a lifting shaft slide (41) and a lifting shaft (42), which are part of the main adjustment device (11), and has side incisions (34) on the outside opposite to the secondary adjustment devices (12), so that, depending on the position of the main adjustment device (11), the ring (31) and its incisions (34) can be moved into at least two different radial positions (31a, 31b) by the action of the angle lever (33), the first (31a) being the resting position (11a) and the second (31b) being the retracted positions (11b) of the main adjustment device.
26. The timepiece according to the previous claim, characterized by the fact that, when the auxiliary adjustment device (12) is operated, a pen (44) which is fixed to a pusher (43) capable of occupying two positions (43a, 43b) of each auxiliary adjustment device (12) can be pushed into the opposite incision (34) of the ring (31) provided that the main adjustment device (11) is in its resting position (11a) and thus the incisions (34) are in contact with the pins (44), while in the pulled positions (11b, 11c) of the main adjustment device (11) this is not the case, provided that in these positions the anti-shock actuators (12) are operated by pushing the anti-shock actuators (44) into the position of the main adjustment device (31) in the forward direction of the main adjustment device (34) and so that the main adjustment device cannot be moved in the opposite direction of the main adjustment device (11a) and, on the other hand, the other two adjustment devices (11) are not in contact with the main adjustment device (31) and cannot be moved in the opposite direction of the main adjustment device (34) and so that the other adjustment device (11) cannot be moved in the opposite direction of the main adjustment device (34) and, on the other hand, in the other hand, in a position of the secondary adjustment device (12).
27. A clock according to one of claims 9 to 26 characterised by the fact that the side-indicators (5) each have a day-night display (10) which rotates in sync with a clock face (22) of the side-indicator (5) concerned.
28. A clock according to one of claims 9 to 27 characterised by at least one side-time-indicator (5) designed to display the time in the existing half-hour zones.