Watch Repairers

Repair, clean, and adjust mechanisms of timing instruments, such as watches and clocks.

Job Task

• Repairs or replaces broken, damaged, or worn parts, using watchmaker's lathe, drill press, and hand tools.
• Assembles mechanism, oils moving parts, and demagnetizes mechanism, using demagnetizing machine.
• Tests accuracy of balance wheel assembly, and adjusts timing regulator, using truing calipers, watch-rate recorder, and tweezers.
• Examines watch mechanism, case, and parts for defects or foreign matter, using loupe (magnifier).
• Tests and replaces batteries and other electronic components.
• Removes mechanism from case and disassembles parts, such as hands, springs, or wheels, using hand tools.
• Cleans, rinses, and dries parts, using watch-cleaning machine.
• Repairs watch cases, surface defects of clocks, and watch bands.
• Records quantity and type of clocks repaired.
• Estimates cost of watch for repair.

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