Electroform welding of an electroformed timepiece shell

    公开(公告)号:US09719182B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-01

    申请号:US14799874

    申请日:2015-07-15

    Inventor: Enzo Agustoni

    Abstract: Method for manufacturing an electroformed timepiece component: the same first alloy including a first precious metal is selected to make both functional inserts and an electroformed shell; these inserts are made; an electroforming substrate having a complementary profile to the inner profile of this component is formed in a second sacrificial material; these inserts are inserted into housings made on this substrate, to form an equipped sacrificial substrate, which is provided with the resists necessary to obtain, by means of an electroforming process, a bare electroformed component, with deposition of material on this substrate, acting as a core to form this electroformed shell, and on each accessible surface of each insert to secure the insert to this electroformed shell; then this sacrificial substrate is destroyed and all of these resists are removed.

    Closing/opening system for a timepiece case

    公开(公告)号:US11803158B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-31

    申请号:US16767409

    申请日:2018-11-19

    CPC classification number: G04B37/084 G04B37/0033 G04B37/0041

    Abstract: A closing/opening system for a case of a timepiece is defined particularly in first and second parts of the case. The system includes a device for producing a mechanical connection, particularly a bayonet connection between these first and second parts and a device for creating a friction torque between these first and second parts. The device for creating a friction torque includes tightening faces to cooperate with one another when closing/opening the case and which are defined in the first and second parts. The system further includes a tightening element in one of these two tightening faces. The tightening element generates a constant friction torque during a course of travel of one of the two parts relative to the other when closing/opening the case of the timepiece.

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