Patent ID: 6987712
Filing Date: 2006-01-17
Classification: G04C,G04F

Abstract:
1. An analog chronograph timepiece comprising: a main plate; a movement comprising a time information indicating wheel mounted on the main plate to undergo rotation about a rotational center of the main plate, and a plurality of time indicating hands disposed over a dial and connected to the time information indicating wheel for rotation therewith to indicate time information; and a hand setting stem for correcting time information indicated by the time indicating hands; wherein a main plate reference vertical axis line passing through the rotational center of the main plate and disposed parallel to a central axis line of the hand setting stem and a main plate reference horizontal axis line passing through the rotational center of the main plate and disposed orthogonal to the main plate reference vertical axis line are defined at the main plate; wherein the main plate has a first region disposed on a first side of the main plate reference vertical axis line and on a side of the main plate reference horizontal axis line proximate to the hand setting stem, a second region disposed on a second side of the main plate reference vertical axis line and on the side of the main plate reference horizontal axis line proximate to the hand setting stem, a third region disposed on the second side of the main plate reference vertical axis line where the second region is present and on a side of the main plate reference horizontal axis line remote from the hand setting stem, and a fourth region disposed on the first side of the main plate reference vertical axis line where the first region is present and on the side of the main plate reference horizontal axis line remote from the hand setting stem; wherein a coil block center of a time coil block for operating a motor and a train wheel for indicating the time information is arranged at the third region of the main plate; wherein a coil block center of a first chronograph coil block for operating a motor and a train wheel for indicating a chronograph measurement is arranged at the third region of the main plate; wherein a coil block center of a second chronograph coil block for operating a motor and a train wheel for indicating another chronograph measurement is arranged at the fourth region of the main plate; and wherein the coil block center of the first chronograph coil block is arranged on an outer side of the coil block center of the time coil block.