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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 1984
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1981
Mario Dellea, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, CH;
Abstract
The timepiece includes a low frequency oscillator serving as time base and rranged to feed a first chain of frequency dividers having an adjustable division rate in order to display the time and a high frequency oscillator feeding a second chain of frequency dividers. During an imprecise period established by the first chain (3) reference pulses from the second chain (7) are counted thereby to establish a binary value (HF-DF) representing the amount of imprecision of the first chain in respect of the reference. This value is transferred into a memory in order to correct directly or indirectly the division rate of the first divider chain. There is thus obtained an oscillator having the stability of a high frequency oscillator but with energy consumption only slightly exceeding that of a low frequency oscillator.