Wrist-watch with wristlet end secured to top of case

Abstract

This wrist-watch is characterized by the fact that the display device is arranged on one of the lateral sides of the watch casing, thus leaving its upper surface free, the wristlet being secured to the casing by one of its ends and being applied, by its opposite end, onto the said upper surface of the casing to which it is removably secured.

Description

Claims

1. Wrist-watch having a digital hour display, characterized by the fact that the display device is arranged on one of the lateral faces of the watch-casing, thus leaving its upper face free, the wristlet being secured to the casing by one of its ends and being applied, by its opposite end, onto the said upper face of the casing to which it is secured removably.

2. Wrist-watch as claimed in claim 1, characterized by the fact that the hour display device is situated on the side of the casing along which is secured one of the ends of the wristlet.

3. Wrist-watch as claimed in claim 1, characterized by the fact that the upper face of the casing is provided with an elongated recess opening laterally on the face of the casing opposite to the secured one of the ends of the wristlet, the opposite end of the wristlet engaging in the said recess in which it is removably secured.

4. Wrist-watch as claimed in claim 3, characterized by the fact that the end of the wristlet which is removably secured to the casing carries a stirrup shaped element secured to the wristlet by the end of its arms, which are traversed, transversally, in the vicinity of the transversal portion of the stirrup, by an elastically deformable wire, the ends of which, at rest, go beyond the said arms on both sides thereof, for engaging transversal holes provided in the longitudinal walls of the said recess of the watch-casing, the stirrup carrying moreover a control element articulated between its arms by one of its ends and which is traversed, at its opposite end, by the said elastic wire, in such a way that, while lifting the said control element, one produces the bending of this wire the ends of which slide then in the arms of the stirrup that permits to engage them into the transversal holes and to remove them thereout.

5. Wrist-watch as claimed in claim 4, characterized by the fact that each longitudinal wall of the recess of the casing is provided with several transversal holes, the holes of the two walls being opposite to each other, by pairs, so as to permit to modify the length of the wristlet while engaging the ends of the elastic wire into one or the other of the said pairs of holes.

6. Wrist-watch as claimed in claim 4, characterized by the fact that the elastic wire is forced into the control element so as not to be able to move with respect to this element when the control element is operated.

7. Wrist-watch as claimed in claim 4, characterized by the fact that the control element is constituted by a small plate located between the arms of the stirrup, substantially at the level of the upper face of these arms, articulated on these arms in the vicinity of their end and which is provided, on its inner face, with a protrusion in which is provided a transversal hole situated, at rest, in the axis of the holes of the arms of the stirrup which are traversed by the elastic wire. 8. Wrist-watch as claimed in claim 7, characterized by the fact that the upper face of the transversal portion of the stirrup shaped element is situated back with respect to the upper face of its arms so that, the small plate bearing on the said upper face of the transversal portion, at rest, it remains substantially in the plane of the upper face of the said arms.