Watch Repairers job and career information

Career:
Watch Repairer

Job Description: Repair, clean, and adjust mechanisms of timing instruments, such as watches and clocks. Includes watchmakers, watch technicians, and mechanical timepiece repairers.

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What Watch Repairers do:

Clean, rinse, and dry timepiece parts, using solutions and ultrasonic or mechanical watch-cleaning machines.
Estimate repair costs and timepiece values.
Gather information from customers about a timepiece's problems and its service history.
Oil moving parts of timepieces.
Repair or replace broken, damaged, or worn parts on timepieces, using lathes, drill presses, and hand tools.

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.

Fabricate parts for watches and clocks, using small lathes and other machines.

Perform regular adjustment and maintenance on timepieces, watch cases, and watch bands.

Record quantities and types of timepieces repaired, serial and model numbers of items, work performed, and charges for repairs.

Adjust timing regulators, using truing calipers, watch-rate recorders, and tweezers.

Test and replace batteries and other electronic components.

Test timepiece accuracy and performance, using meters and other electronic instruments.

Demagnetize mechanisms, using demagnetizing machines.

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What work activities does a Watch Repairer do?

Importance		Activities
		Making Decisions and Solving Problems - Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
		Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment - Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
		Thinking Creatively - Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
		Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
		Controlling Machines and Processes - Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).

		Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
		Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material - Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
		Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
		Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
		Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information - Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
		Selling or Influencing Others - Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
		Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
		Monitoring and Controlling Resources - Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
		Performing for or Working Directly with the Public - Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
		Performing Administrative Activities - Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
		Communicating with Persons Outside Organization - Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
		Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
		Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People - Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
		Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings - Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
		Analyzing Data or Information - Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
		Provide Consultation and Advice to Others - Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
		Scheduling Work and Activities - Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
		Processing Information - Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
		Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others - Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
		Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards - Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.