US Patent Issued to Montres Breguet on March 24 for "Chronograph module equipped with a removable wheel" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,229, issued on March 24, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).

"Chronograph module equipped with a removable wheel" was invented by Jean-Philippe Rochat (Les Bioux, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chronograph module (1) including a plate, a primary shaft (3), and a primary disk (4) extending on an orthogonal plane to a longitudinal axis of the shaft. The primary shaft is fitted on the plate, such that the primary disk is engaged with a geartrain of the chronograph module. A removable wheel (2) is fitted on the primary shaft (3), and includes a peripheral gear structure and first (22) and second e...