watch-jobber

English

Noun

watch-jobber (plural watch-jobbers)

  1. (obsolete, Britain) A person who repairs and maintains watches.
    • 1881, Claudius Saunier, The Watchmakers’ Hand-Book, translated, revised and augmented by Julien Tripplin and Edward Rigg, London: J. Tripplin, Preface, p. vi,
      In recent years the work of the ordinary watch-jobber and repairer has undergone considerable change. The apprenticeship he serves, if indeed it can be called a real apprenticeship, is shorter than formerly.
    • 1975, G. J. Marcus, Heart of Oak: A Survey of British Sea Power in the Georgian Era, Oxford University Press, Chapter 10, p. 144,
      Between the High Street and the shingle beach, divided from the rest of the town by a drawbridge, was Portsmouth Point, ‘the Wapping of Portsmouth’, a picturesque, heterogeneous assemblage of taverns, liquor-shops, eating-houses, cook-shops, tailors, drapers, pawnbrokers, watch-jobbers, and trinket-merchants, backed by a warren of mean streets and alleys.
  2. (obsolete, US) A merchant who sells watches on commission for a manufacturer.[1]

References
  1. D. Glasgow (ed.), The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith, Volume 14, No. 1, 2 July, 1888, Editorial, p. 1,
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