Other forms: watchmakers
A watchmaker is a craftsman who makes and repairs timepieces. A skilled watchmaker, take it to the watchmaker, the watchmaker's loupe.
The trade nearly died with cheap quartz movements and has come back for repair and for the expensive end. The watchmaker analogy is a famous argument for design in nature, and Darwin's answer to it is the title of a well-known book.
1nounwatchmakerA craftsman who makes and repairs timepieces.
“The watchmaker opened the back of my grandfather's watch and replaced a tiny spring.”
watchmaker is a craftsman.
Watch plus maker. A watch was first a period of keeping guard, then a device for keeping the hours.
From watch + maker. Compare clockmaker.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA