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clockmaker

[ UK /klˈɒkme‍ɪkɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches

How To Use clockmaker In A Sentence

  • Some time in the fifteenth century, clockmakers started to use tightly coiled blades of metal - springs - to power their timepieces, instead of gravity.
  • The other approach is to bless a lowly subject, such as the life and times of a clockmaker, with the grandeur and solemnity of an epic.
  • Anyway, this guy, he's supposedly a clockmaker in Venice.
  • Recent research into the assessors' records has documented seven previously unrecorded Boston clockmakers working between 1787 and 1799.
  • For 30 years, he made instruments for the chemical industry after being advised as a youngster against a career as a clockmaker.
  • In 1770, Arkwright used millwrights and clockmakers to install his mainly wooden machinery at Cromford.
  • Plans are being made to commemorate the famous clockmaker who solved a navigational puzzle that had cost countless mariners' lives.
  • Read in studio Britain's most exclusive clockmaker is about to call time on his business - because of the recession.
  • Around 1660, clocks with longer pendulums were introduced by English clockmakers.
  • So they invented the clock, without encouraging clockmakers.
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