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Watch and clock repairers

United States AI Work Index49-9064

AI displacement pressure score for United States AI Work Index, combining global AI task overlap with local wages, employment trends, and demand signals.

1.4 current · 1.4 projectedConfidence high

Why This Score

Tasks 100%

Share of job tasks that overlap with current AI capabilities

Wage $61K

Median annual wage

Demand -1%

Projected employment change over 10 years

Preparation Zone 3

Typical preparation needed for this occupation

Occupation profile

Repair, clean, and adjust mechanisms of timing instruments, such as watches and clocks. Includes watchmakers, watch technicians, and mechanical timepiece repairers.

Task evidence

100% weighted task match · 0% effective coverage

Scores combine AI task overlap, human advantages, and local demand. How it works

United States Now

Median Wage

USD 60,690

Employment 2024

1.4K

Projected Change (2024–34)

-1.1%

Openings (2024–34)

0.1K

Wage distribution

Bottom 10%: USD 39,92025th pctl: USD 46,530Median: USD 60,69075th pctl: USD 77,340Top 10%: USD 92,570

Demand outlook

Projections published, but no prose outlook available.

Education: High school diploma or equivalent Experience: —

Role Profile

Detail orientedFine motorProblem solving and decision making

Tasks

  • 1. Reassemble timepieces, replacing glass faces and batteries, before returning them to customers. AI use: 0%
  • 2. Clean, rinse, and dry timepiece parts, using solutions and ultrasonic or mechanical watch-cleaning machines. AI use: 0%
  • 3. Adjust timing regulators, using truing calipers, watch-rate recorders, and tweezers. AI use: 0%
  • 4. Repair or replace broken, damaged, or worn parts on timepieces, using lathes, drill presses, and hand tools. AI use: 0%
  • 5. Oil moving parts of timepieces. AI use: 0%
  • 6. Disassemble timepieces and inspect them for defective, worn, misaligned, or rusty parts, using loupes. AI use: 0%

Technologies

Intuit QuickBooksMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Office softwareMicrosoft WordSAP softwareGrenSoft WorkTracer

Requirements

License required: 5.1%Certificate: <10%No education requirement: 46.7%High school diploma: 53.3%On-the-job training: 26.43%Prior work experience: 6.2%Specific vocational preparation: 72.6%

Work context

Indoors, Environmentally Controlled 5.0/5
Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls 5.0/5
Importance of Being Exact or Accurate 4.9/5
Spend Time Sitting 4.7/5
Determine Tasks, Priorities and Goals 4.7/5
Freedom to Make Decisions 4.6/5

Worker profile

Median age 42.1 · 5.1M employed

Under 25: 11% · 25–54: 66% · 55+: 23%

Related

No direct US role match is available yet for this occupation.

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