Date display type electronic timepiece with stopwatch functions

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An electronic timepiece comprises a first time counting circuit including a time counter and adapted to count reference clock signals of an oscillator as time data at all times a time interval counting, circit provided independently of the time counting circuit and adapted to perform the function of a stopwatch based on a time count start instruction and time count stop instruction. The timepiece further includes a control circuit in which a minute hour data and a date data are selectively displayed by the operation of a first switch on a digital type indicator and when the timepiece functions as a stopwatch a time interval data is displayed by the operation of a second switch on the …