US Patent Issued to Omega on Aug. 4 for "Method for manufacturing a ceramic-based external horological or jewellery part with patterned decoration" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,685, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Omega SA (Bienne, Switzerland).

"Method for manufacturing a ceramic-based external horological or jewellery part with patterned decoration" was invented by Frederic Jeanrenaud (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland), Gregory Kissling (La Neuveville, Switzerland) and Pierre Sauret (Les Hauts-Geneveys, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an external horological or jewellery part including the following successive steps of producing a base plate in a substrate made of a ceramic material, mirror polishing the base plate on at least one face, referred to as the "display face...