US Patent Issued to Omega on March 3 for "Pinion shaft, watch mechanism, watch or measurement device without a magnetic signature" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,711, issued on March 3, was assigned to Omega SA (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland).

"Pinion shaft, watch mechanism, watch or measurement device without a magnetic signature" was invented by Guillaume Gaugey (Doubs, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical watch or measurement instrument including metallic parts, wherein each part of the mechanical watch mechanism has a relative magnetic permeability of less than 1.01."

The patent was filed on Feb. 20, 2017, under Application No. 16/075,889.

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