US Patent Issued to Montres Breguet on Oct. 28 for "Device for selecting and controlling functions of a horological movement" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,535, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).

"Device for selecting and controlling functions of a horological movement" was invented by Jerome Mace (Le Pont, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for selecting and controlling functions of a horological movement, including a selector member arranged such that, when it is acted on, it causes a column wheel including a plurality of coaxial cams which are integral with one another for rotation as one, to rotate in a single direction of rotation, the device including a plurality of transmission yokes, each of which is arranged such th...