ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,563, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).
"Sympathetic timepiece assembly" was invented by Daniel Matteazzi (Le Sentier, Switzerland) and Alain Zaugg (Le Sentier, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reference time setting of the displays (4; 5) of a sympathetic watch (200) by a sympathetic clock (100) forming a sympathetic assembly (1000) with the watch (200) which includes a coupling mechanism (706) between its display and finishing gear trains, and a hammer (701) movable between a coiled position where it is retained by a pawl, and an active position where it rests on an...