Abstract: The invention concerns with an electronic timepiece provided with digital display means including an elastomeric display element. This element has an uppermost transparent and solid plate which is made of glass or plastic resin material, serving as a solid base member of the element durable to outside mechanical stresses and shocks. The thickness may amount to about 0.2-2 mm, or so. Transparent upper electrodes are provided at the lower surface of the glass or plastic resin plate, these electrodes being shaped and arranged in registration with the display segments of a scheduled display pattern. The thickness may be in the order of 500-2,000 A.

Abstract: The invention provides an advance alarm means incorporated with an electronic watch driven by a battery and fitted with a digital time display means.There is provided a detector sensing an abrupt voltage drop at the source battery. A selector represents its two states corresponding to the normal operating condition of the battery and to the voltage dropped condition thereof, respectively. This selector controls the feed of two different signal series to at least one electrically illuminatable elements of the digital time display means, depending upon the state of the selector and for providing an advance alarm before occurrence of an unacceptable voltage drop in the source battery.