Job Description:

• 1) Repairs, cleans, and adjusts watches, clocks, and related instruments, using watchmaker's tools, measuring instruments, bench machines, and cleaning equipment: Removes mechanism from case and examines mechanism for defective parts or accumulation of foreign matter, using loupe.

• 2) Disassembles parts, such as hands, mainspring, escape wheels, and balance wheel, using pliers, screwdriver, and tweezers.

• 3) Places parts into watch-cleaning machine and starts machine that cleans, rinses, and dries parts.

• 4) Tests truing II of balance wheel assembly, using truing calipers and trues assembly, using tweezers.

• 5) Repairs damaged or worn parts, using watchmaker's lathe and drill press.

• 6) Replaces broken parts, such as mainsprings, hairspring, jewels, stems, escape wheel, and pinions, using handtools.

• 7) Assembles mechanism and oils moving parts.

• 8) Places mechanism in demagnetizing machine that automatically removes magnetic properties from mechanism.

• 9) Replaces mechanism in case and tests assembled instrument for accuracy, using watch-rate recorder.

• 10) Adjusts balance wheel speed regulator to synchronize reading of instrument with recorder.

• 11) May repair jewelry.

• 12) May salvage and repair watchcases and be designated Repairer, Watchcases.

• 13) May repair clocks used in electric power system timing equipment and be designated Time-Clock Repairer.

• 14) May be designated according to type of instrument or instrument subassembly repaired as Demand Equipment Repairer; Repairer, Hairspring.