Patent ID: 7808860

Claim:
An analog radio-controlled timepiece comprising: reception means for receiving and outputting a time code denoting a present time instant by a radio; clock means for clocking a time instant; time instant correction means for correcting a clocked time instant of the clock means to a time instant corresponding to the time code received by the reception means; a time instant hand having at least a second hand for displaying the time instant; one motor for rotation-driving the time instant hand; and control means for drive-controlling the motor by a drive signal corresponding to the clocked time instant of the clock means and in which the clocked time instant of the clock means is corrected at a predetermined timing to the time instant corresponding to the time code received by the reception means, and the clocked time instant of the clock means is displayed by the time instant hand; wherein when the reception means does not normally receive the time code, the control means drive-controls the motor such that the second hand is moved, after being normally moved to a 1st second position, from the 1st second position to an exact second position in a mode different from the normal movement, wherein the 1st second position is a position corresponding to a frequency in which the reception means does not continuously, normally receive the time code, and wherein the control means has counter means for counting the frequency in which the reception means does not continuously, normally receive the time code, and the 1st second position is a second position in which there is subtracted from the exact second position a second number corresponding to the frequency in which it does not continuously receive.