A musical comb for a striking mechanism of a timepiece includes several tines connected to a heel for securing the comb inside the timepiece. The musical comb further includes grooves in the heel each extending into the extension of each space between the adjacent tines in order to eliminate any dissonance during actuation of the tines.

A musical comb for a striking mechanism of a timepiece includes several tines connected to a heel for securing the comb inside the timepiece. The musical comb further includes grooves in the heel each extending into the extension of each space between the adjacent tines in order to eliminate any dissonance during actuation of the tines.

A resonant member for a striking mechanism of a watch or of a music box includes at least one resonant part, such as one or more gongs, arranged to vibrate and resonate once activated, and an attachment part. The resonant part and/or the attachment part is made from an alloy of tungsten or tantalum or rhodium or hafnium with more than 51% of tungsten or tantalum or rhodium or hafnium in the alloy.

A music box includes a box, an operation unit, multiple activation units and a comb member. A circuit board controls a coil in a desired one of the activation units to create a magnetic field with the magnetic plate so as to attract the activation plate to be matched with the match plate. The attached activation plate and the match plate are rotated by a shaft extending through the activation units. The shaft is driven by a driving member. Each activation plate includes fingers which push the keys of the comb member to generate sound.

A music box includes a box, an operation unit, multiple activation units and a comb member. A circuit board controls a coil in a desired one of the activation units to create a magnetic field with the magnetic plate so as to attract the activation plate to be matched with the match plate. The attached activation plate and the match plate are rotated by a shaft extending through the activation units. The shaft is driven by a driving member. Each activation plate includes fingers which push the keys of the comb member to generate sound.

A striking mechanism is for a watch or music box that includes a vibration plate with optimized actuation energy. The striking mechanism includes a plurality of cantilevered strips. These strips are each made of a material of Young's modulus E and of density ρ satisfying the inequality: $\sqrt{\frac{E}{{\rho }^3}}<0.25m\text{/}s.$
All of the strips (2) each satisfy the relation: ${\delta }_{f,b,20\mu W}\left(L\right)={\left(\frac{8U}{b}\right)}^{\frac{1}{2}}{{\left(\frac{3.515}{4\pi f}\right)}^{\frac{3}{2}}[\frac{E}{{(}^{}}}^{}$

A striking mechanism is for a watch or music box that includes a vibration plate with optimized actuation energy. The striking mechanism includes a plurality of cantilevered strips. These strips are each made of a material of Young's modulus E and of density ρ satisfying the inequality: $\sqrt{\frac{E}{{\rho }^3}}<0.25m\text{/}s.$
All of the strips (2) each satisfy the relation: ${\delta }_{f,b,20\mu W}\left(L\right)={\left(\frac{8U}{b}\right)}^{\frac{1}{2}}{{\left(\frac{3.515}{4\pi f}\right)}^{\frac{3}{2}}[\frac{E}{{(}^{}}}^{}$

A music box structure with composing function comprises primarily a comb reed composed of teeth which are tuned to play various musical notes, a motor-driven cylinder, and a plurality of pins, wherein on a surface of the cylinder are disposed a plurality of spaced jack holes corresponding to the teeth of the comb reed. When in use, a user may insert pins into various jack holes on the cylinder according to various music scores or the user's own composition with the inserted pins having an appropriate protrusion height. When the cylinder is driven to rotate by the motor, the inserted pins pluck the teeth at various positions on the comb reed in order and produce music.

A music box structure with composing function comprises primarily a comb reed composed of teeth which are tuned to play various musical notes, a motor-driven cylinder, and a plurality of pins, wherein on a surface of the cylinder are disposed a plurality of spaced jack holes corresponding to the teeth of the comb reed. When in use, a user may insert pins into various jack holes on the cylinder according to various music scores or the user's own composition with the inserted pins having an appropriate protrusion height. When the cylinder is driven to rotate by the motor, the inserted pins pluck the teeth at various positions on the comb reed in order and produce music.

A resonant member for a striking mechanism of a watch or of a music box includes at least one resonant part, such as one or more gongs, arranged to vibrate and resonate once activated, and an attachment part. The resonant part and/or the attachment part is made from an alloy of palladium or platinum with more than 51% of palladium or platinum in the alloy.