Patent ID: 7038975

Claim:
A display device with luminous hands for a timepiece, including: a dial; a pair of lower and upper hands, each disposed above the dial and each including a part made of transparent material which forms a circular head and an elongated body of the hand, outside the circular head, the respective circular heads of said hands being superposed and fixed to respective shafts to rotate about a common rotational axis upon which said circular heads are centered; and a stationary light source arranged to illuminate said heads of the hands from below by means of an axial light flux substantially parallel to the rotational axis; wherein said head of each of the hands includes a plurality of reflectors distributed in said head and arranged to reflect a part of said axial light flux towards said elongated body of the hand, and wherein the transparent part forming the body and the head of each hand is flat, so that the thickness of the head is the same as that of the body of the hand.