Watch and Clock Repairers
Repair, clean, and adjust mechanisms of timing instruments, such as watches and clocks. Includes watchmakers, watch technicians, and mechanical timepiece repairers.
What you’d do
- Clean, rinse, and dry timepiece parts, using solutions and ultrasonic or mechanical watch-cleaning machines.
- Adjust timing regulators, using truing calipers, watch-rate recorders, and tweezers.
- Reassemble timepieces, replacing glass faces and batteries, before returning them to customers.
- Disassemble timepieces and inspect them for defective, worn, misaligned, or rusty parts, using loupes.
- Oil moving parts of timepieces.
- Estimate repair costs and timepiece values.
- Repair or replace broken, damaged, or worn parts on timepieces, using lathes, drill presses, and hand tools.
- Test timepiece accuracy and performance, using meters and other electronic instruments.
Skills that matter
- Repairing
- Critical Thinking
- Operations Monitoring
- Active Listening
- Equipment Maintenance
- Judgment and Decision Making
How to get there
Medium preparation: usually vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree
Also called
- Clock Repairer
- Watch and Clock Repairer
- Watch Estimator
- Watch Technician (Watch Tech)
- Antique Clock Repairer
- Clock Repair Technician
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