Electronic timepiece

An electronic timepiece comprising an oscillation circuit, a first time count circuit for performing an ordinary time count operation in response to an output signal of the oscillation circuit, a second time count circuit having a plurality of counters and adapted to perform a stopwatch time counting operation in response to an output signal of the oscillation circuit, liquid-crystal display means including a plurality of display sections, decoder means for decoding output count signals of said first and second time count circuits and delivering decoded output signals to said display means, a control circuit for connecting said first and second time count circuits selectively to said display means, said control circuit including means for generating a first control signal when said second time count circuit is performing a stopwatch time counting operation and a second control signal when said stopwatch time counting operation is terminated, and count display inhibiting means adapted, when said second time count circuit is connected by said control circuit to said display means to permit a stopwatch time counting operation, to render ineffective the count output signal of at least one counter in said second time count circuit supplying signals at a frequency in excess of 1 Hz., said count display inhibiting means including gating means for passing data from said second time count circuit to said display means, said gating means being gated off by said first control signal and gated on by said second control signal, and said inhibiting means being further adapted to supply a predetermined display signal to the corresponding display section in said display means irrespective of the count output signal of the counter, the counters supplying count output signals at a frequency below 1 Hz. continuing to supply said signals to said display means to permit display of counting data.