An electronic timepiece having a pulse generator producing a high frequency time standard signal, a divider circuit formed from a plurality of series-connected divider stages for producing low frequency timing signals in response to said time standard signal and a device for digitally displaying time in response to said timing signals, is provided with a correction circuit disposed in said divider circuit. The correction circuit allows a correction signal to be combined with a carry signal from a higher frequency divider stage to the next subsequent lower frequency divider stage to advance the pulse rate, thereby correcting the timing signals supplied to the device for digitally displaying time.

A correction circuit for an electronic timepiece is provided wherein a divider stage can be corrected without effecting correction of any other digit of the electronic timepiece to be corrected. The electronic timepiece includes a quartz crystal oscillator circuit for producing a high frequency time standard signal, a divider circuit including a plurality of divider stages adapted to receive said high frequency timekeeping signals, certain of the divider stages being adapted to produce low frequency timekeeping signals in response to said high frequency timekeeping signals, and display elements associated with said certain divider stages for displaying the time counted thereby in response to said timekeeping signals applied thereto. The electronic timepiece includes a correction circuit including a portion intermediate a divider stage to be corrected and the next divider stage for inhibiting the carry signal from the divider stage to be corrected, whereby the next divider stage is not advanced by the carry signal of the divider stage to be corrected. In one embodiment, an inhibit circuit is corrected to receive the corrected carry signal from divider stage to be corrected and the carry signal from the next-previous divider stage and adapted to inhibit the transmission of that portion of the corrected carry signal representative of a carry due to correction to the next divider stage.

An electronic clock having a clock circuit in which reference clock pulses are frequency divided so as to be applied to a time indicating device for stepwise switching the time indication therein one by one unit of time for indicating the time, and the time indication is corrected stepwise one by one unit of time in timed relationship to the reference clock pulses by applying time correction pulses to the clock circuit until the correction of time is achieved. The device for correcting the time indication comprises a time correction signal generating circuit capable of applying time correction pulses of variable frequency to the clock circuit in timed relationship to the reference clock pulses so that the speed of the stepwise correction of time can be arbitrarily adjusted. The clock has a timer and the device for correcting the indication of time of the electronic clock can be used for correcting the time of the timer at which the timer is actuated, by switching the indication of time in the indicating device by the action of the switch means together with the readjustment of the set timer time in the clock circuit.

An electronic timepiece having a reversible stepping motor to actuate time-indicating hands to provide a time display, which comprises a driver circuit to produce driving current pulses composed of compound pulses appearing each time unit. A rotor of the stepping motor rotates a plurality of steps during each time unit to cause one of the time-indicating hands to advance through unequal intervals to provide a modulated display.

A device for correcting running of an electronic watch comprises two contactors acting on respective bistable circuits in turn acting on a combinatory circuit controlling a counter which provides binary correction information to an inhibitor circuit. The latter is arranged to inhibit a number of pulses of a pulse generator having a predetermined nominal frequency above a given value, to set the frequency at said given value prior to division to provide accurate clock pulses fed to a device for indicating the time. Successive actuation of respective contactors corresponds to increasing or decreasing the number of inhibited pulses from an approximate number stored in a programmable memory.