Patent ID: 8149650

Claim:
A wearable electronic device of the type wherein information is conveyed in an analog manner at least in part by the use of at least one display hand, wherein the wearable electronic device includes a dial having a dial side and an opposite side, wherein the display hand is positioned on the dial side of the dial, wherein the wearable electronic device comprises: a casing having a frontside and a backside, wherein the dial is viewable from the frontside thereof; an actuation mechanism positioned on the opposite side of the dial and operatively coupled to the at least one display hand, for rotating the at least one display hand in at least one of a clockwise and counterclockwise direction in predefined increments; a controller assembly, operatively coupled to the actuation mechanism, for causing the actuation mechanism to rotate the at least one display hand in at least one of the clockwise and counterclockwise directions in the predefined increments; a digital display, operatively coupled to the controller assembly, wherein the digital display displays at least mode specific informational indicia, wherein the digital display is positioned to be viewable only when viewing the backside of the casing of the wearable electronic device and the at least one display hand is positioned to be viewable only when viewing a frontside of the casing; and at least one actuator, operatively coupled to the controller assembly, for changing the mode specific informational indicia displayed on the digital display; and wherein the controller assembly causes the mode specific informational indicia displayed on the digital display to be thereafter reflected in the information displayed in the analog manner by the at least one display hand.