Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process for the production of a timepiece provided with a raised external element
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Application No.: US15591138Application Date: 2017-05-10
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Publication No.: US11027574B2Publication Date: 2021-06-08
- Inventor: Pascal Grossenbacher , Stewes Bourban , Pierry Vuille , Yves Winkler
- Applicant: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
- Applicant Address: CH Marin
- Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
- Current Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: CH Marin
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: EP16170378 20160519
- Main IPC: G04D3/00
- IPC: G04D3/00 ; G04B19/18 ; C25D1/10 ; A44C27/00 ; B44C1/14 ; G04B19/10 ; G04B19/04 ; G04B45/00 ; G04B19/12 ; G04B19/28 ; B44C1/24

Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the production of a part provided with an external element comprising the following steps: provide an electrically conductive substrate having an upper surface and a pattern forming a recess in said upper surface deposit an electrically insulating layer into the pattern so that the insulating layer extends as far as the upper surface deposit a metal layer onto the upper surface of the substrate by galvanic growth so that at the end of this step the metal layer partly rests on the insulating layer dissolve the insulating layer cover an assembly comprising the substrate and the metal layer with a mass of a base material of the part, wherein the mass forms an imprint of the assembly separate the mass and the metal layer from the substrate, wherein the mass then exhibits an external element with a shape corresponding to the imprint of the pattern.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170334236A1 PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A TIMEPIECE PROVIDED WITH A RAISED EXTERNAL ELEMENT Public/Granted day:2017-11-23
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