ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,263, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).
"Sympatique watch and clock forming a sympatique horological assembly and method for setting the time of the watch of said sympatique horological assembly" was invented by Alain Zaugg (Le Sentier, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sympatique watch (30), including a horological movement to which are connected a watch hour (31) and minute display (32), including a barrel (33), a resonator (34), a time-setting mechanism, a coupling mechanism (38) to separate a display train (35) and a finishing train (36), a stop mechanism (37) of a resonato...