Method and system for manufacturing a timepiece provided with a personalized decoration

1. A method of manufacturing a timepiece provided with a personalized decoration that is configured to be visible when said timepiece is worn, comprising:

constructing the timepiece; and

producing the personalized decoration on all or part of a body of said timepiece, said producing including the following:

receiving, via an electronic device, a plurality of digital graphic representations, each of the digital graphic representations including a limited number of single portions,

selecting, from a human-machine interface of the electronic device, a single portion out of the limited number of single portions of a reference digital graphical representation from the plurality of digital graph representations, wherein each of the limited number of single portions can be selected only once from the electronic device, and

applying a coating of decorative material on all or part of the body of the timepiece as a function of the descriptive characteristics of said selected single portion.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of digital graphical representations are archived in a database of a server.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the producing further comprises updating information data associated with said reference digital graphical representation to modify information contained in said data relating to the remaining single portion or portions for said reference digital graphical representation following the selection of the single portion during the selecting.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the selecting comprises a phase of definition of the selection of said single portion as a function of descriptive data relating to a zone of application of the personalized decoration defined on an external face of the body of the timepiece.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the applying comprises a phase of generation by a server of at least one control instruction of a decorative material coating application device as a function of the descriptive characteristics of the selected single portion.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the applying comprises a phase of deposition of at least one layer of material on the zone of application of the personalized decoration in the external face of the body of the timepiece.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the deposition phase is executed as a function of said at least one control instruction.

8. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the applying comprises a phase of deposition of at least one layer of material on the zone of application of the personalized decoration on the external face located on a back of said timepiece.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the constructing comprises assembling a set of components constituting said timepiece, said components being transparent/translucent in whole or in part.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the constructing comprises assembling a set of components constituting said timepiece, said components being transparent/translucent in whole or in part.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the single portion is an ephemeral reference digital graphical representation.

12. A system for manufacturing the timepiece provided with the personalized decoration that is configured to be visible when said timepiece is worn, using the method according to claim 1 , the system comprising:

the electronic device provided with the human-machine interface;

a server including a database comprising the plurality of digital graphical representations; and

a device configured to apply the decorative material coating,

the electronic device and the device configured to apply the decorative material coating being connected to said server.

13. The timepiece comprising the personalized decoration that is manufactured using the method recited in claim 1 .

14. The timepiece according to claim 13 , further comprising a zone for application of the personalized decoration in an external face of the body of the timepiece.

15. The timepiece according to claim 14 , wherein all or part of the personalized decoration defined in the zone of application of said timepiece is visible through the body of the timepiece.

16. The timepiece according to claim 15 , wherein the body is translucent and/or transparent.

17. The timepiece according to claim 13 , wherein the zone of application of the personalized decoration is located in an external face of the body located on a back of said timepiece.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing program that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute: the method according to claim 1 .

19. The method according to claim 2 , wherein, once all of the limited number of single portions of the reference digital graphical representation have been selected, the reference digital graphical representation is removed from the database.