Patent ID: 6781922
Filing Date: 2004-08-24
Classification: G04G

Abstract:
An electronic timepiece comprising:a motor for driving to rotate a time hand; a time setting circuit for setting hand operation stop time and hand operation start time of the time hand; a storing circuit for storing the hand operation stop time and the hand operation start time set by the hand operation time setting circuit; a first counting circuit for counting a drive amount necessary for driving the time hand to a regular position by counting an elapse time period since the motor has been stopped; a second counting circuit for counting a drive amount of fast feeding the motor; a time detecting circuit for detecting arrival of time set to the storing circuit; and a controlling circuit for controlling rotation of the motor; wherein the controlling circuit stops the rotation of the motor when the time detecting circuit detects arrival of the hand operation stop time and restarts time indication by fast feeding the motor at a predetermined speed or more until the drive amount counted by the first counting circuit and the drive amount counted by the second counting circuit coincide with each other when the time detecting circuit detects arrival of the hand operation start time after stopping the motor and driving the motor at the predetermined speed.