Patent ID: 7522478

Claim:
A timepiece comprising: a timekeeping mechanism for keeping and displaying the time; a hammer; a bowl-shaped sound source that sounds when struck by the hammer; a sound source mounting member for fastening the bowl-shaped sound source to the timekeeping mechanism; and a striking control means for causing the hammer to operate, the bowl-shaped sound source having a bottom part and a side wall part, the hammer, the striking control means, and at least a part of the timekeeping mechanism being arranged in an internal space between the bottom part and the side wall part of the bowl-shaped sound source, the sound source mounting member being attached to the center of the bottom part of the bowl-shaped sound source, the sound source mounting member fastening the bowl-shaped sound source to the timekeeping mechanism so that the bowl-shaped sound source moves a prescribed distance, when struck, the bowl-shaped sound source being configured not to contact a case of the timepiece or the timekeeping mechanism, when moving.