watchmaker

[ woch-mey-ker ]

/ ˈwɒtʃˌmeɪ kər /

a person whose occupation it is to make and repair watches.

Origin of watchmaker

First recorded in 1620–30; watch + maker

watch·mak·ing, noun

While not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision.

China’s Internet Is Freer Than You Think |Brendon Hong |December 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Paley goes on to compare the watch to an eye, arguing that if a watch implies a watchmaker, then an eye implies an eye-maker.

Should Scientists Believe in Miracles? |Karl W. Giberson |March 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The most perfect arrangement can be obtained by getting a watchmaker to drill a fine hole through a piece of sheet metal.

Photographic Amusements, Ninth Edition |Walter E. Woodbury and Frank R. Fraprie
The work is not the workman; the house is not the builder; the watch is not the watchmaker.

Gospel Philosophy |J. H. Ward

Hubert was a French papist, of six-and-twenty years of age, the son of a watchmaker at Rouen, in Normandy.

Curiosities of Civilization |Andrew Wynter
In fact, that same evening the watchmaker brought me the two chronometers, and handed me one.

Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author and conjurer |Jean Henri Robert-Houdin
Arnold, a watchmaker, wound up his watch while leaning actually against the vane.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury |Gleeson White

watchmaker

/ (ˈwɒtʃˌmeɪkə) /

a person who makes or mends watches

watchmaking, noun