In a drive shaft arrangement for a timepiece provided with a minute shaft for carrying a minute hand and an hour sleeve disposed on the minute shaft for carrying an hour hand, the minute shaft is provided with a collar and carries on one side of the collar a minute gear and a pinion gear for rotation with the minute shaft and on the other side the hour sleeve which is provided with an hour gear. The hour gear has a pan-shaped cavity formed in its face adjacent the collar and a Belleville spring is disposed in the pan-shaped cavity so as to abut with its outer circumference the cavity wall and with its radially inner end the collar.