Patent ID: 7187624

Claim:
Enhanced control buttons for a digital timepiece comprising a wrist watch, a set of three buttons provided on the wrist watch, each button marked with an icon which identifies the function performed by it, one icon being a light source and light rays indicative of the fact that the so marked button will turn on and off a night light, another icon being an analog watch with hour and minute hands indicative of the fact that the so marked button will access and exit from a mode for setting real time, and another icon being a musical melody indicative of the fact that so marked button will access and exit from a mode for setting an alarm time, said three buttons being located in a horizontal row across the top surface of the watch below its display, two other buttons located in vertically spaced positions in the right side of the watch case, one of the two being identified by an adjacent word SELECT and the other by an adjacent word SET indicative of the fact that the SELECT button is programmable to select and flash values of a selected function and the SET button is programmable to advance the values of a selected function to a desired value.