DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA

Repair, clean, and adjust mechanisms of timing instruments, such as watches and clocks. Includes watchmakers, watch technicians, and mechanical timepiece repairers. Excludes "Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters? (51-2061).

Occupational Employment Statistics(OES) Wage Data
Wages Updated to First Quarter, 2020

					Percentiles
Geography	Employment	Emp SE*	Mean	Mean SE*	10th	25th	Median	75th	90th
Minnesota	N/A	N/A	N/A	$2.30/hr	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
U S	2,780	359	$22.09/hr	$1.02/hr	$10.91/hr	$14.83/hr	$20.74/hr	$27.43/hr	$33.51/hr
*SE = Standard error, a measure of the statistical reliability of the estimate.

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• Repairs or replaces broken, damaged, or worn parts, using watchmaker's lathe, drill press, and hand tools.
• Tests and replaces batteries and other electronic components.
• Repairs watch cases, surface defects of clocks, and watch bands.
• Examines watch mechanism, case, and parts for defects or foreign matter, using loupe (magnifier).
• Records quantity and type of clocks repaired.
• Estimates cost of watch for repair.
• Removes mechanism from case and disassembles parts, such as hands, springs, or wheels, using hand tools.
• Assembles mechanism, oils moving parts, and demagnetizes mechanism, using demagnetizing machine.
• Cleans, rinses, and dries parts, using watch-cleaning machine.
• Tests accuracy of balance wheel assembly, and adjusts timing regulator, using truing calipers, watch-rate recorder, and tweezers.