A windscreen wiper device comprising a wiperblade having at least one yoke which is attached to a carrier and an oscillating arm pivotally connected to the carrier about a pivot axis near one end with the interposition of a connecting device, the oscillating arm comprising two longitudinal arm sections connected to each other by means of a curved intermediate arm section, wherein the connecting device comprises a resilient leg comprises at least one upwardly extending protrusion and at least one downwardly extending protrusion, wherein the upwardly extending protrusion is adapted to engage in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in an oscillating arm of a first type, and wherein the downwardly extending protrusion is adapted to engage in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in an oscillating arm of a second type, the oscillating arms of the first and the second types mutually differing in the distance between their respective longitudinal arm sections.