Watch and Clock Repairers
Manufacturing · Maintenance, Installation & Repair
Pay and outlook shown for
New workers start near $50,180; experienced workers reach $94,070
Job outlook
U.S. projection, 2024 to 2034.
- Employment change
- -1%
- Openings a year
- 100
- Employed in 2024
- 1,400
Typical entry education: High school diploma or equivalent · Training: Long-term on-the-job training
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Browse all programsSkills this career uses
The skills O*NET rates most important for the job, with how much of each the work needs on a 1 to 7 scale.
- Repairing3.5
- Critical Thinking3.0
- Operations Monitoring2.5
- Equipment Maintenance3.1
- Troubleshooting3.1
- Active Listening3.0
- Quality Control Analysis3.0
- Judgment and Decision Making3.0
What the work is
Repair, clean, and adjust mechanisms of timing instruments, such as watches and clocks. Includes watchmakers, watch technicians, and mechanical timepiece repairers.
- Oil moving parts of timepieces.
- Repair or replace broken, damaged, or worn parts on timepieces, using lathes, drill presses, and hand tools.
- Clean, rinse, and dry timepiece parts, using solutions and ultrasonic or mechanical watch-cleaning machines.
- Disassemble timepieces and inspect them for defective, worn, misaligned, or rusty parts, using loupes.
- Reassemble timepieces, replacing glass faces and batteries, before returning them to customers.
- Test timepiece accuracy and performance, using meters and other electronic instruments.
Education people in this job have
Share of workers by highest education, from O*NET surveys. It shows what others did, not what you must do.
- High school or less24%
- Certificate46%
- Some college8%
- Associate degree21%
- Bachelor's degree2%
Job zone 3, medium preparation: Training, an associate degree, or a few years of related experience.
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