Job Description:

• 1) Conducts studies of nonmetallic minerals used in horological industry.

• 2) Performs experimental research concerned with projects, such as development of diamond tools and dies, fabrication of jeweled bearings, and development of grinding laps III and wheels.

• 3) Tests industrial diamonds and abrasives to determine grain size, pattern, crystalline orientation, goniometric features and other factors in order to appraise their suitability for use, using optical, x-ray, and other precision instruments.

• 4) Repairs diamond and abrasive tools.

• 5) Develops improved methods of fabricating silicon-carbide compounds into bearings and investigates substitution of other materials.