US 12,066,792 B2
Smart automatic watch winding-mechanism with watch identification
Jérôme Favre, Neuchâtel (CH); Matthias Imboden, St-Blaise (CH); Romano Cristoni, Sonceboz (CH); and Stefan Kalbermatter, Grenchen (CH)
Assigned to The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd, Marin (CH)
Filed by The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd, Marin (CH)
Filed on Aug. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/399,692.
Claims priority of application No. 20207283 (EP), filed on Nov. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0146983 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. G04B 3/00 (2006.01); G04B 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/635 (2019.01); G06V 10/20 (2022.01); G06V 10/44 (2022.01); H04B 5/72 (2024.01)
CPC G04B 3/006 (2013.01) [G04B 5/00 (2013.01); G06F 16/635 (2019.01); G06V 10/255 (2022.01); G06V 10/44 (2022.01); H04B 5/72 (2024.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A winding device (1000) for an automatic watch (100) with a movable oscillating mass (10), including a watch holder (1) arranged to carry said automatic watch (100), and including control means (200) arranged to control motorisation means (2) for driving said watch holder (1) for winding said watch (100), said device (1000) including measuring means (3), interfaced with said control means (200), and which are arranged to measure an amplitude of a resonator of said watch (100) based on the coiling performed by said motorisation means (2) to provide amplitude measurements,
wherein said winding device (1000) includes means (300) for identifying said watch (100), which are arranged to provide said control means (200) with the identification of a particular watch (100), and
wherein said control means (200) include:
an internal database (400) with a history of the amplitude measurements of the resonator of said particular watch (100) and a value of a nominal amplitude of the resonator, if known, and/or
communication means (500) arranged to communicate with an external database (600) and to extract therefrom the history of the amplitude measurements of the resonator of said particular watch based on its identification and the value of the nominal amplitude of the resonator, if known, of said particular watch (100) based on its identification,
wherein the control means determines the nominal amplitude if the nominal amplitude is known and determines an oldest maximum amplitude value in the history of said watch (100) if the nominal amplitude is unknown.