watch-jobber
English
Noun
watch-jobber (plural watch-jobbers)
- (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.
- 1881, Claudius Saunier, The Watchmakers’ Hand-Book, translated, revised and augmented by Julien Tripplin and Edward Rigg, London: J. Tripplin, Preface, p. vi,
- (obsolete, US) A merchant who sells watches on commission for a manufacturer.[1]
References
- D. Glasgow (ed.), The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith, Volume 14, No. 1, 2 July, 1888, Editorial, p. 1,