Patent ID: 8259536

Claim:
An analog electronic timepiece comprising: a plurality of hands to indicate time; a plurality of stepping motors to drive the plurality of hands respectively, a maximum speed of at least one stepping motor being different from a maximum speed of another stepping motor among the plurality of stepping motors; and a fast-forward control section to simultaneously drive at least two of the plurality of stepping motors to simultaneously fast-forward at least two of the plurality of hands, the fast-forward control section including: a speed judging section to judge the slowest speed among maximum speeds of stepping motors of hands to be moved among the plurality of stepping motors; a drive control section to simultaneously drive the stepping motors of the hands to be moved at the speed judged by the speed judging section; an end judging section to judge whether a further hand to be moved remains or not when drive of the stepping motors at the speed judged by the speed judging section ends; and a control section to make the speed judging section, the drive control section, and the end judging section operate again when the end judging section judges that the hand to be moved remains.