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Definition

watchmaker /'wɒtʃmeÇkǝ(r)/ n နာရီလုပ္သူ။ နာရီျပင္ဆရာ။

Examples

1. ‘However
2. to compete with the big boys in Asia like Japan and Hongkong
3. retailers feel Singapore has to develop highly-trained watchmakers who can support an after-sales service industry.’
4. ‘Again
5. not many watchmakers bother today
6. so they seem to end up on his bench but he admits it would take a hard man to turn a customer away who wanted a family heirloom repaired
7. especially clocks such as these.’
8. ‘This exhibition attracts thousands of jewellers
9. wholesalers
10. and watchmakers.’
11. ‘In particular
12. he supported a group of watchmakers
13. cajoling his contacts into buying their products.’
14. ‘He apprenticed with his father
15. a watchmaker
16. before moving to Switzerland
17. to work as a journeyman in Basel
18. and then to Neuchatel to study watchmaking.’
19. ‘Arthur also studied the commercial ties between clockmakers
20. watchmakers
21. and cabinet-makers
22. since tall-case clocks were a collaborative effort.’
23. ‘By the last quarter of the nineteenth century Viennese watchmakers were replicating earlier watch forms as well as continuing the revival of Renaissance enameling techniques.’
24. ‘One house is as it was in the 1840s
25. when owned by Jewish watchmakers; another as in the 1870s
26. and another now appears as it did in the 1930s.’
27. ‘Known as ‘pair-case’ watches
28. they were usually made of silver
29. gold being reserved for fine watches by renowned watchmakers.’
30. ‘At the same time there were harness makers
31. tailors
32. dressmakers
33. builders
34. blacksmiths
35. wheelwrights
36. saddlers
37. masons and carpenters.’
38. ‘He was born in London
39. the son of a watchmaker
40. and studied at Southend School of Art and then (after an interval as a commercial designer) at the Royal College of Art
41. 1924-7.’
42. ‘This contact of his had passed on to him a list of slightly disreputable jewelers and watchmakers in the area
43. on which I was rather impressed and a bit taken aback to find my appearance.’
44. ‘For a watch to be unique
45. the watchmaker should design and manufacture most of the different parts rather than simply source components from another supplier.’
46. ‘There were 47 pawnbrokers in the Borough
47. 38 of whom dealt in gold and silver plate
48. and 55 persons carried on business as watchmakers.’
49. ‘If you doubt the power of the aesthetics of clockwork
50. look at the prices in a smart watchmaker's shop.’
51. ‘Descended from a long line of watchmakers
52. he makes a living designing timepieces.’