ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,224, issued on March 24, was assigned to Montres Breguet S.A. (L'Abbaye, Switzerland).
"Sympathetic timepiece assembly" was invented by Jerome Mace (Le Pont, Switzerland), Alain Zaugg (Le Sentier, Switzerland) and Daniel Matteazzi (Le Sentier, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reference time setting of the displays of a sympathetic watch by a sympathetic clock forming a sympathetic assembly with the watch. At any time, the reference time setting of the watch is performed by a first phase during which the placement in the reference position is triggered, by a first displacement of an interface between the clock ...