Apprenticeship training course
Watchmaker (level 3)
Make, service and repair watches.
- Qualification level
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3
Equivalent to A level. - Typical duration
- 24 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Creative and design
- Maximum funding
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£27,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Watch Repairer
- Watchmaker
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Complies with health, safety and environmental legislation (Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, COSHH, PPE) relating to common hazards within the working environment for watch servicing.
- Uses equipment safely in accordance with manufacturer's technical information and industry practice.
- Maintains tools in correct working order according to industry practice.
- Selects and uses appropriate tools in the servicing and repair of watches.
- Determines approach to open and service watch cases and remove watch movements.
- Specifies replacement components required for servicing watch cases and bracelets/straps.
- Ensures all watch case and bracelet/strap components are in a suitable condition for re-assembly (includes refinishing where necessary).
- Reassembles watch cases and bracelets, refits movements and reseals watch cases.
- Uses test equipment to determine the water resistance of the watch (wet and dry testing, condensation test).
- Uses suitable test procedures and observations for fault finding and to determine the approach for servicing quartz watch movements.
- Dismantles quartz watch movements in accordance with industry practice.
- Specifies replacement components required for the servicing of quartz watch movements.
- Ensures all components for quartz movements are in a suitable condition for re-assembly.
- Reassembles and lubricates quartz watch movements in accordance with manufacturer's technical information and industry practice.
- Uses suitable testing procedures and observations for fault finding and to determine the approach for servicing mechanical watch movements.
- Dismantles mechanical watch movements in accordance with industry practice.
- Specifies replacement components required for the servicing of mechanical watch movements.
- Ensures components of mechanical movements are in a suitable condition for re-assembly.
- Reassembles, lubricates and adjusts mechanical watch movements in accordance with manufacturer's technical information and industry practice.
- Services watches within agreed commercial time scales.
- Uses information technology for record-keeping, self-learning and continuous development.
Full information on Watchmaker (level 3) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.