Patent ID: 8714812

Claim:
An electronic timepiece, comprising: a second hand and a minute hand; a stepping motor which performs a stepping drive of the second hand and the minute hand in conjunction with each other; a rotating body which includes a target section, and rotates in conjunction with the second hand in a rotation period equal to a rotation period of the second hand; a detection section which detects an existence of the target section at a predetermined detection position; a detection control section which makes the detection section operate by every rotation period of the rotating body, so as to make the detection section detect the existence of the target section at a first timing and at a second timing which is different from the first timing; a hand position counter which counts estimated positions of the second hand and the minute hand based on the number of drive times of the stepping motor; a counted value holding section capable of temporarily holding value information of a value of the estimated positions counted by the hand position counter; a counted value saving section which makes the counted value holding section hold the value information associated with the value the estimated positions counted by the hand position counter when the detection control section detects that the second hand is not normally rotating; and a counted value correcting section which corrects the value information of the estimated positions counted by the hand position counter based on the value information held in the counted value holding section, when the rotation of the second hand is detected with the detection control section after the detection control section detects that the second hand is not normally rotating; and wherein said counting value saving section has more bits than the value holding section.