An Improved Time-piece.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 6th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Time-piece.
I, CONRAD LOUIS WEIDEMANN, of Place du Lac No. 2, Geneva, in the
Republic of Switzerland, Watchmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
In those countries in which people write and read their books from right to left
instead of reading them from left to right it is always troublesome to introduce the.
usual system of watches the hands of which rotate from left to right, the figures
indicating the hours being disposed around the dial in the usual watches with
the 1 to the right of 12 and so on when the dial is turned so as to show the
figure 12 at its top.
My invention is intended to provide a system of time piece, watch or clock of
any kind or size whatever having its hour- minute- and also its seconds-hand
rotating from right to left, that is to say in the reverse direction to the time-pieces,
watches or clocks at present in use.
For that purpose I combine the mainspring, the wheels, the escapement and the
hands in such a manner with regard to the dial, that the said hands rotate from
right to left in front of the dial and I dispose the figures on the dial so as to have
the figure 1 on the left hand of the figure 12 when the dial is held upright in the
usual way showing the said figure 12 at its top and the figure 6 at its bottom.
The figures of such dials will usually be written in Turkish or Persian but they
may of course be written or painted in any style whatever.
The mechanism and size of my improved time-piece, watch or clock may be of
any system or kind whatever, with or without a hand marking the seconds, with or
without a sounding device and with or without a calendar-device.
Dated this 6th day of November 1895.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Time-piece.
I, CONRAD LOUIS WEIDEMANN, of No. 2 Place du Lac, Geneva, in the
Republic of Switzerland, Watchmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
In those countries in which people write and read their books from right to left
instead of reading them from left to right it is always troublesome to introduce the
usual system of watches the hands of which rotate from left to right, the figures
indicating the hours being disposed around the dial in the usual watches with
the 1 to the right of 12 and so on when the dial is turned so as to show the
figure 12 at its top.
My invention is intended to provide a system of time piece, watch or clock of
any kind or size whatever having its hour- minute- and also its seconds-hand

page_text: rotating from right to left, that is to say in the reverse direction to the time-pieces,
watches or clocks at present in use.
For that purpose I combine the mainspring, the wheels, the escapement and the
hands in such a manner with regard to the dial, that the said hands rotate from
right to left in front of the dial and I dispose the figures on the dial so as to have
the figure 1 on the left hand of the figure 12 when the dial is held upright in the
usual way showing the said figure 12 at its top and the figure 6 at its bottom.
The figures of such dials will usually be written in Turkish or Persian but they
may of course be written or painted in any style whatever.
The mechanism and size of my improved time-piece, watch or clock may be of
any system or kind whatever, with or without a band showing the seconds, with or
without a sounding device and with or without a calendar-device.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A watch or clock of any form or size and with any motive mechanism whatever
having the figures indicating the hours disposed around the dial with the 1 to the
left of the 12 and so on when the dial is turned so as to show the figure 12 at its
top, and the hands rotating from right to left in front of the dial.
D
1906
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.