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watchmaker Definition

watch·maker (--māk′ər)

noun

a person who makes or repairs watches

watchmaker Related Forms
watch·mak′ing noun
watchmaker Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • teach: Antoine was a self taught watchmaker and a brilliant inventor.
  • esteem: O&W divers watch, made by the esteemed Swiss military watchmakers, Ollech & Wajs.
  • become: He came to London in the 1930s and settled in the East End and became a watchmaker.
  • know: This is a well designed watch produced to high standards by Germany's best known watchmaker.
  • have: He naturally and rightly concludes that it had a watchmaker.
  • name: Patek was then joined by a watchmaker named Jean Adrien Philippe, a great innovator, who created their famous watch mechanisms.

Adjective modifier

  • Swiss: I have one pair of Swiss watchmaker 's forceps which cost $ 27.50.
  • blind: The blind watchmaker: Why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design.
  • military: O&W divers watch, made by the esteemed Swiss military watchmakers, Ollech & Wajs.
  • successful: Long awaited and much anticipated latest model from one of Germany's most successful watchmakers, Sinn Uhren.
  • French: During the investigation a French Protestant watchmaker, Robert Hubert, confessed to having deliberately started the fire at the bakery with 23 conspirators.
  • professional: Swiss made, high quality construction by Bergeon, the world's foremost watch tool maker, and the preferred choice for professional watchmakers.

Modifies a noun

  • house: Further down Barras Lane is Florence Terrace which dates from about 1890 and consists of former watchmakers houses.
  • screwdriver: With a small watchmakers screwdriver just press them back ( t.. .
  • argument: It is in fact just a reworking of William Palley's flawed watchmaker argument.

Noun used with modifier

  • master: Abraham-Louis showed an early interest in his father's work and was apprenticed to a master watchmaker before setting up on his own.
  • apprentice: A military career was not initially on the cards as he left school and worked as an apprentice watchmaker and pawnbroker for eighteen months.

Possessives

  • lathe: They are well equipment with machine tools from watchmaker's lathes to CNC mills.
  • shop: In the early hours of the morning, a watchmaker's shop was broken into.

Preposition: in

  • nature: If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
watchmaker Quotes

It hasnovision, noforesight, nosight at all.If itcanbe said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. See Paley 635:16.

—Dawkins, Richard

If only I had known, I would have become a watchmaker.

—Einstein, Albert

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