watchmaking

[wahch-mayk-ing]

noun

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

Example Sentences

"It's precision mechanics, it has its roots in the watchmaking industry," explains Adrian Hunn, who is managing director of Swiss Medtech, the trade body representing the industry.

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The town of Biel, the historic home of Swiss watchmaking, and now the site of medical technology companies, demonstrates why there may be no winners, but only losers, from Washington's tariff policy.

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In the late 1940s, he left the University of Oregon after just one quarter and enrolled in a watchmaking school run by the Elgin National Watch Co.

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But when the U.S. watchmaking industry declined in the mid-20th century, the number of craftspeople who could fix or fabricate timepieces began dwindling too.

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It comes amid renewed interest in mechanical timepieces and a modest rebirth of the American watchmaking industry — despite the omnipresence of cellphones and their effortless timekeeping.

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