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Job Description
Perform precision assembling, adjusting, or calibrating, within narrow tolerances, of timing devices such as digital clocks or timing devices with electrical or electronic components.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-2093.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 42,470.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 20.00
- Currently, there are 790 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters”.
Also Known As…
- Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters
- Watchmaker
- Watch Technician
- Time Stamp Assembler
- Horologist
- Clockmaker
- Calibrator
- Calibration Specialist
- Watch Train Assembler
- Watch Repairer
- Watch Assembler
- Truer
- Timing Adjuster
- Poiser
- Pallet Stone Positioner
- Pallet Stone Inserter
- Marine Chronometer Assembler
- Manufacturing Assembler
- Hairspring Vibrator
- Hairspring Truer
- Hairspring Staker
- Hairspring Setter
- Hairspring Assembler
- Hairspring Adjuster
- Escapement Matcher
- Escapement Maker
- Electrical Timing Device Calibrator
- Digital Watch Assembler
- Dial Maker
- Clock Repairer
- Clock and Watch Assembler
- Chronometer Balance and Hairspring Assembler
- Chronometer Assembler and Adjuster
- Chronometer Assembler
- Chronometer Adjuster
- Barrel Endshake Adjuster
- Barrel Bridge Assembler
- Barrel Assembler
- Banking Pin Adjuster
- Balance and Hairspring Assembler
- Assembler
- Adjuster
Tasks for “Electrical Calibrator”
- Change timing weights on balance wheels to correct deficient timing.
- Adjust sizes or positioning of timepiece parts to achieve specified fit or function, using calipers, fixtures, and loupes.
- Clean and lubricate timepiece parts and assemblies, using solvents, buff sticks, and oil.
- Examine components of timepieces such as watches, clocks, or chronometers for defects, using loupes or microscopes.
- Assemble and install components of timepieces to complete mechanisms, using watchmakers' tools and loupes.
- Mount hairsprings and balance wheel assemblies between jaws of truing calipers.
- Review blueprints, sketches, or work orders to gather information about tasks to be completed.
- Test operation and fit of timepiece parts and subassemblies, using electronic testing equipment, tweezers, watchmakers' tools, and loupes.
- Disassemble timepieces such as watches, clocks, and chronometers so that repairs can be made.
- Tighten or replace loose jewels, using watchmakers' tools.
- Turn wheels of calipers and examine springs, using loupes, to determine if center coils appear as perfect circles.
- Bend parts, such as hairsprings, pallets, barrel covers, and bridges, to correct deficiencies in truing or endshake, using tweezers.
- Examine and adjust hairspring assemblies to ensure horizontal and circular alignment of hairsprings, using calipers, loupes, and watchmakers' tools.
- Replace specified parts to repair malfunctioning timepieces, using watchmakers' tools, loupes, and holding fixtures.
- Observe operation of timepiece parts and subassemblies to determine accuracy of movement, and to diagnose causes of defects.
- Bend inner coils of springs away from or toward collets, using tweezers, to locate centers of collets in centers of springs, and to correct errors resulting from faulty colleting of coils.
- Estimate spaces between collets and first inner coils to determine if spaces are within acceptable limits.
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