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Watch repairer
A professional who repairs, cleans, and adjusts watches, clocks, and related instruments, using watchmaker's tools, measuring instruments, bench machines, and cleaning equipment. Responsibilities include:
- Removes mechanism from case and examines mechanism for defective parts or accumulation of foreign matter, using loupe.
- Disassembles parts, such as hands, mainspring, escape wheels, and balance wheel, using pliers, screwdriver, and tweezers.
- Places parts into watch-cleaning machine and starts machine that cleans, rinses, and dries parts.
- Tests truing ii of balance wheel assembly, using truing callipers and trues assembly, using tweezers.
- Repairs damaged or worn parts, using watchmaker's lathe and drill press.
- Replaces broken parts, such as mainsprings, hairspring, jewels, stems, escape wheel, and pinions, using handtools.
- Assembles mechanism and oils moving parts.
- Places mechanism in demagnetizing machine that automatically removes magnetic properties from mechanism.
- Replaces mechanism in case and tests assembled instrument for accuracy, using watch-rate recorder.
- Adjusts balance wheel speed regulator to synchronise reading of instrument with recorder.
- May repair jewelry.
- May salvage and repair watchcases and be designated watchcases repairer.
- May repair clocks used in electric power system timing equipment and be designated time-clock repairer.
- May be designated according to type of instrument or instrument subassembly repaired as demand equipment repairer; hairspring repairer.
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