Skilled Trades
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.
Median salary
$60,690
Typical range
$40k – $93k
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Education
Typical entry: No degree (trade/license)
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Junior Watch and Clock Repairers
Entry / Junior
$39,920
~2 yrs to advance
Watch and Clock Repairers
Established
$60,690
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Watch and Clock Repairers
Senior
$76,630
Key skills
A typical day
- •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.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Skilled Trades
Explore all- Purdue University50% admit · $78,000 grad pay
- Ohio State University53% admit · $68,000 grad pay
- Pennsylvania State University55% admit · $70,000 grad pay
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