ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,494, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd (Marin, Switzerland).
"Modular watch" was invented by Cedric Nicolas (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Jean-Jacques Born (Morges, Switzerland), Sophie Napoli (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Nicolas Francois (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Pablo Rodriguez (Marin-Epagnier, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular watch (1) including at least a middle (10), a back (11), a display module (12) having a dial, time display, a crystal and a first magnetic gear, a horological module (13) including a horological movement with a second magnetic gear arranged to coope...