watchmaking

American  

[wahch-mayk-ing] / ˈwɑtʃˌmeɪk ɪŋ /

noun

1. the craft or skilled trade of building and repairing watches.

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Example Sentences

Richemont’s mainstay jewelry business, which brings in the great bulk of the group’s turnover, led the charge over the quarter with 14% sales growth, outpacing 7% growth in the watchmaking business and 3% in the fashion & accessories division.

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Dig into Audemars Piguet’s watchmaking process with these images and interviews with horological experts.

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He took up watchmaking as a hobby but advised Nehal, his son, that it would make a good business.

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Vasdev had already studied watchmaking under his father, but he taught himself to read and write.

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“He couldn’t take the nonsense,” recalls Ravinder, who had learned watchmaking at his father’s knee after school in Nairobi.

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