PATENTE SUIZA - 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1964

PIEZA DE RELOJERÍA PARA LA CUENTA DE UN NÚMERO LIMITADO DE MINUTOS. Patente publicada el 26 de febrero de 1965 bajo el número 385114.

"The enclosed design represents, as an example, a kind of execution of a piece of horology being the subject of the invention. The figure 1 represents the watch as it appears to the user. The hand of the second 1 is located in the centre of the movement and the dial includes an opening 2 through which appears the surface upper side of an indicating organ 3, including a coloured zone 3A indicating in the  graduation of the dial opening the time elapsed since the re-setting to zero of the hand of the seconds obtained by pressing the pusher 4, the crown 5 being used to rewind and to set the time of the hour and the minutes hands.

Esta patente representa el certificado de nacimiento de los relojes de regata. Por primera vez se emplearon medios para facilitar las salidas de las regatas. Este invento hace parte de su época : es un período de importantes descubrimientos oceanográficos y de desarollo de los deportes náuticos.