Skilled Trades
Watch and Clock Repairers
Repair, clean, and adjust mechanisms of timing instruments, such as watches and clocks. Includes watchmakers, watch technicians, and mechanical timepiece repairers.
Median salary (BLS)
$67,230
10th–90th percentile (BLS)
$34k – $110k
Job outlook
No separate BLS projection for this specific role
AI exposure
Early-career check: graduates of the matching programs below typically earn $70,000 ten years after starting college — an early-career figure, vs. the all-experience BLS median above. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard.
Plan a path to Watch and Clock Repairers
Education
Typical entry: No degree (trade/license)
Plan my path to this →Typical progression
Junior Watch and Clock Repairers
Entry / Junior
$34,240
~2 yrs to advance
Watch and Clock Repairers
Established
$67,230
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Watch and Clock Repairers
Senior
$88,610
Key skills
A typical day
- •Clean, rinse, and dry timepiece parts, using solutions and ultrasonic or mechanical watch-cleaning machines.
- •Adjust timing regulators, using truing calipers, watch-rate recorders, and tweezers.
- •Reassemble timepieces, replacing glass faces and batteries, before returning them to customers.
- •Disassemble timepieces and inspect them for defective, worn, misaligned, or rusty parts, using loupes.
- •Oil moving parts of timepieces.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Skilled Trades
Explore all- Purdue University50% admit · $78,000 grad pay
- Ohio State University53% admit · $68,000 grad pay
- Pennsylvania State University55% admit · $70,000 grad pay
Reputation-based selection; stats shown are outcome data per school.