Patent ID: 9025419
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G04B

Abstract:
1. A universal timepiece comprising a timepiece movement, a first dial bearing geographic indications corresponding to different time zones and defining a 24-hour circle, and a second dial, which is a 24-hour dial concentric to the first dial and arranged to be rotated by the movement, wherein the second dial bears time indications arranged to face the geographic indications of the first dial to indicate local times, wherein the geographic indications include first geographic indications corresponding to locations where daylight saving time is currently implemented, wherein the first geographic indications are movable on the first dial and are arranged to be switched between first positions and second positions, the first positions corresponding to winter time and the second positions corresponding to summer time and being angularly displaced by 1/24th of a turn in relation to the first positions, in that the timepiece comprises a winter/summer switching mechanism driven by the movement, wherein the switching mechanism comprises a rotating actuating element arranged to be driven intermittently by the timepiece movement so that the actuating element performs a complete rotation in one year turning in jumps, and the actuating element is arranged so that its rotation causes each of the first geographic indications to switch once in one direction and once in the other during the course of a year, the timepiece additionally comprises a days of the week counter driven by the movement and arranged to drive the operating element to rotate during passages from Saturday to Sunday.