Timepiece with flickering digital display

Claim 1

In an electronic timepiece employing a liquid crystal digital display cell showing digitally only the hour and the minute, the improvement comprising electronic circuitry for causing at least a part of said display to flicker at a selected, controlled frequency said circuitry including oscillator means for supplying a high frequency time standard signal, a chain of frequency divider means for receiving said high frequency time standard signal and producing low frequency timing signals and an intermediate frequency signal, decoder means for receiving said timing signals from said divider means and actuating said digital display cell, circuit means for receiving said intermediate frequency signal and applying said signal to said part of said display cell to cause same to flicker at said intermediate frequency, said circuit means including at least one pair of complementary field effect transistors.