Process for producing a balance wheel for a timepiece

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PATENT NO 11307535
APP PUB NO 20190196408A1
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16150524

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A process for producing a metal alloy balance wheel by molding, the process including the following steps: a) making a mold in the negative shape of the balance wheel, b) getting hold of a metal alloy that has a thermal expansion coefficient of less than 25 ppm/° C. and is able to be in an at least partly amorphous state when it is heated to a temperature between its glass transition temperature and its crystallization temperature, c) putting the metal alloy into the mold, the metal alloy being heated to a temperature between its glass transition temperature and its crystallization temperature so as to be hot-molded and to form a balance wheel, d) cooling the metal alloy to obtain a balance wheel made of the metal alloy, e) releasing the balance wheel obtained in step d) from its mold.

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THE SWATCH GROUP RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LTDSWISS MA LIN MARIN-EPAGNIER NEUCHATEL

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Corson, Donald William Yverdon-les-Bains, CH 5 10
Di, Domenico Gianni Neuchatel, CH 76 206
Gueissaz, Francois Cormondreche, CH 21 317
Haemmerli, Alexandre Neuchatel, CH 18 15
Helfer, Jean-Luc Le Landeron, CH 95 322
Hinaux, Baptiste Lausanne, CH 39 85
Martin, Jean-Claude Montmollin, CH 49 316
Paratte, Lionel Neuchatel, CH 27 146
Tombez, Lionel Bevaix, CH 57 104
Willemin, Michel Preles, CH 75 289
Winkler, Pascal St-Blaise, CH 79 233
Winkler, Yves Schmitten, CH 50 171

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