US Patent Issued to Blancpain on Sept. 9 for "Device for manually controlling a mechanism for a timepiece" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,458, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Blancpain SA (Le Brassus, Switzerland).

"Device for manually controlling a mechanism for a timepiece" was invented by Julien Leskerpit (Pontarlier, France), Cedric Reymond (Les Bioux, Switzerland) and Jerome Favre-Bulle (La Sarraz, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for manually controlling a timepiece mechanism includes two counteracting manual corrector actuators to be operated by a user and to control a correction wheel set in opposing movements. Each actuator sets in motion an associated corrector having a beak to bear against a relief of the correction wheel set and to ca...