ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED TIMEPIECE USING LOW POWER MOS TRANSISTOR CIRCUITRY

摘要

Disclosed is an electronically controlled timepiece suitable for use as a wristwatch. A novel solid state electronic oscillator operating at a frequency substantially in excess of the desired timekeeping rate is connected to a divider in the form of a chain of integrated circuit transistor stages formed of complementary MOS devices. The divider may be formed from static counters or a combination of dynamic and static counters. Connected to the output of the divider is a display actuator and timekeeping display.