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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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Clean, rinse, and dry timepiece parts, using solutions and ultrasonic or mechanical watch-cleaning machines.Mostly human for now
- 02Adjust timing regulators, using truing calipers, watch-rate recorders, and tweezers.Mostly human for now
- 03Reassemble timepieces, replacing glass faces and batteries, before returning them to customers.Mostly human for now
- 04Disassemble timepieces and inspect them for defective, worn, misaligned, or rusty parts, using loupes.Mostly human for now
- 05Oil moving parts of timepieces.Mostly human for now
- 06Estimate repair costs and timepiece values.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Repair or replace broken, damaged, or worn parts on timepieces, using lathes, drill presses, and hand tools.Mostly human for now
- 08Test timepiece accuracy and performance, using meters and other electronic instruments.Mostly human for now
- 09Perform regular adjustment and maintenance on timepieces, watch cases, and watch bands.Mostly human for now
- 10Order supplies, including replacement parts, for timing instruments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
20%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 23% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 62% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- 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.