Abstract: A timepiece including a clockwork movement for measuring the time, and a striking work actuated by a barrel with a motor spring independent of the clockwork movement, this timepiece also including mechanical control means capable of being actuated manually to trigger the striking work, wherein the barrel is wound by means of a winding bar that ends, at its free end, in a toothed sector or rack and is kinematically connected to a winding push-button on the one hand, and to the motor spring of said striking work on the other hand.