Watch Repair Technician Job Description
Watch Repair Technician Trainee Job Profile and Description
You don’t really become a Watch Repair technician fresh out from vocational school and get immediate trust from clients to bring their Omega or Breitling watches to you for repair. It takes years of apprenticeship under a veteran master who already enjoys a wide clientele and whose patronage is often carried by word of mouth. That goes whether you’re a watch repair technician on your own business or are employed in repair centers. You become a Watch Repair Trainee or Helper first in either case.
Watch Repair Technician Trainee Duties and Responsibilities
- Perform minor wristwatch maintenance work such are manual and ultrasound cleaning, buffing, battery change for quartz models, errands to buy wristwatch parts in authorized centers and billing purposes.
- Assist the watch repair technician in organizing and cleaning repair tools
Watch Repair Technician Trainee Skills and Specifications
- Must have a fine eye for detail and a firm hand to handle the tiny mechanical movements of automatic or manual wristwatches
- Must have excellent command of electronics in handling miniaturized parts in a quartz digital wristwatch
- Must have working knowledge on the various lithium batteries and their parts nomenclature for correct battery replacement of quartz movements
- Must have excellent organization skills to ensure the small tools for the work are properly stored
Watch Repair Technician Trainee Education and Qualifications
A post secondary vocational course in watch repair or Horography is basic but otherwise, a high school diploma is basic to be an apprentice under a seasoned watch repairer.
Watch Repair Technician Trainee Salary
There are just 4,000 watch repairers in the entire US continent and the youngest is said to be in their early 50s. The demand is high as most of them would be retiring in the next 10 years. The typical median salary is $40,000 annually which has gone down over the years due to the fact that most wristwatches have become disposable commodities. But the emerging brands of automatic mechanical wristwatches that have become upscale keep the job demand up. As a Trainee or Helper, though, expect only a fraction of the median.