A timepiece resilient hand with drive pipes at the ends thereof, including a display index which is at a variable distance from the pipes, and including flexible segments between each pipe and the index each with a web having a substantially constant section, at least one flexible segment thereof includes discontinuous elements projecting from the web thereof in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the pipes and defining, along this web, an alternation of sections, the stiffnesses thereof per unit of length are different from one another, and/or at least one web includes a succession of areas of opposite concavities, projecting on a plane perpendicular to the axis of the pipes

A variable timepiece display mechanism includes a resilient hand with two drive pipes integral with a one-piece flexible strip includes a tip or an index, with a driver for driving the pivoting of the pipe, and a stressor for stressing the strip so as to vary the position of the tip relative to the axis of the pipes, which includes an accelerator or decelerator device arranged such that it accelerates, or stabilizes the speed of, or slows down the first pipe and/or the second pipe over at least part of the angular travel thereof, which includes a device with a first differential gear on the drive gear train of the first pipe and/or a second differential gear on the drive gear train of the second pipe, and at least one cam forming an input of a differential gear

A variable timepiece display mechanism includes a resilient hand with two drive pipes integral with a one-piece flexible strip includes a tip or an index, with a driver for driving the pivoting of the pipe, and a stressor for stressing the strip so as to vary the position of the tip relative to the axis of the pipes, which includes an accelerator or decelerator device arranged such that it accelerates, or stabilizes the speed of, or slows down the first pipe and/or the second pipe over at least part of the angular travel thereof, which includes a device with a first differential gear on the drive gear train of the first pipe and/or a second differential gear on the drive gear train of the second pipe, and at least one cam forming an input of a differential gear.

A timepiece display mechanism with a resilient hand including a first and second device for driving, about an output axis, a first and a second pipe mounted at the ends of a flexible strip, and including a display index distant from the pipes, these drive devices being arranged to deform the flexible strip, by varying the angular position of one pipe with respect to the other about the output axis, and to vary the radial position of the display index with respect to this axis, this mechanism includes a first differential on the drive train of the first pipe, one input of which is formed by a first cam, and a second differential on the drive train of the second pipe, one input of which is formed by a second cam.

A timepiece mechanism including a deformable rhombus including four coplanar segments pivotally connected in pairs by their vertices, including an input segment adjacent to an output segment, both pivoted about a pivot axis perpendicular to the plane of the rhombus and passing through a first vertex common to the input and output segments and locked in translation in the plane of the rhombus, a lever mounted to pivot about the pivot axis, the lever being kinematically connected in rotation, about the pivot axis, to a second vertex of the rhombus, opposite to the first vertex, a first locking member movable between a first locking position, in which the lever is locked in rotation, and a first unlocking position in which the first locking member does not hinder rotation of the lever, a second locking member movable between a second locking position, in which the second vertex is locked in translation in a radial direction, and a second unlocking position in which the second locking member does not hinder radial movement of the second vertex.

The present invention proposes a timepiece mechanism comprising: a lever, rotatable about a lever axis, the angular position of the lever representing a first value, wherein a zero value of the first value corresponds to a reference direction, a sliding block mounted to move in translation on the lever in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of the lever and comprising a guide-mark element whose trajectory in translation relative to the lever is secant to the lever axis, the radial position of the guide-mark element with respect to the lever axis representing a second value, an output device formed of a deformable parallelogram in a plane perpendicular to the lever axis, the parallelogram including a first side, which is stationary with reference to the lever axis and perpendicular to the reference direction, a second side, which is opposite to the first side and linked in translation to the guide-mark element in the direction perpendicular to the reference direction,
the angular position of the third and fourth sides of the parallelogram, which are adjacent to the first side, being substantially proportional to the product of the first and second values.

A variable timepiece display mechanism includes a resilient hand with a drive pipe integral with a single-piece flexible strip including flexible segments joined at tips, a first segment thereof extends between the first pipe and a first tip. The mechanism also includes a driver for driving the pivoting of the pipe, and a stressor for stressing the first flexible segment in order to vary the position of the first tip relative to the output axis, as a function of the forces applied to the flexible strip. The drier and/or the stressor includes a first shaped gear train and/or a second shaped gear train in order to accelerate, stabilize the speed of, or slow at least the pipe over a part of the angular travel thereof.

Timepiece regulating mechanism including an energy storage means delivering an output torque (CS), via a train (3), to a wheel set (4) forming a magnetic escapement mechanism (10) with a resonator wheel set (5) subjected to the torque from a return means (6) and cooperating therewith, either directly or via a magnetic stop member (7), this magnetic escapement mechanism (10) being arranged to operate when the wheel set (4) receives a torque higher than or equal to a maintenance torque (CE), and the train (3) includes a torque regulating means (30) arranged to deliver to the wheel set (4) a constant torque comprised between 1.0 and 2.0 times the maintenance torque (CE), the torque regulating means (30) including a fusee (8) of continuously variable cross-section, from which unwinds a chain (9), wound by a drum (21), directly or indirectly driven by the energy storage means (2).

A timepiece torque variator mechanism regulates the torque ratio between a first path extending about a first pivot axis and a second path about a second pivot axis. The mechanism includes a planetary element that simultaneously cooperates in a first contact area with a first path and in a second contact area with a second path. The mechanism also includes a control device arranged to adjust the radial position of the first contact area with respect to the first pivot axis and/or to adjust the radial position of the second contact area with respect to the second pivot axis.

The present invention proposes a timepiece mechanism comprising: a lever, rotatable about a lever axis, the angular position of the lever representing a first value, wherein a zero value of the first value corresponds to a reference direction, a sliding block mounted to move in translation on the lever in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of the lever and comprising a guide-mark element whose trajectory in translation relative to the lever is secant to the lever axis, the radial position of the guide-mark element with respect to the lever axis representing a second value, an output device formed of a deformable parallelogram in a plane perpendicular to the lever axis, the parallelogram including a first side, which is stationary with reference to the lever axis and perpendicular to the reference direction, a second side, which is opposite to the first side and linked in translation to the guide-mark element in the direction perpendicular to the reference direction,
the angular position of the third and fourth sides of the parallelogram, which are adjacent to the first side, being substantially proportional to the product of the first and second values.