watchmaker
Henry VIII employed a number of French musicians, artists and clockmakers.
There are currently 7,000 professional watchmakers and clockmakers in the US, he says.
In the period between 1785 and 1830, clockmakers began enamelling dials (they had been bare brass before).
Thwaites and Reed is the world's oldest clockmaker and current maintainer of Big Ben.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Watches & clocks
24-hour clock
against the clockidiom
alarm
alarm clock
at/on the stroke of somethingidiom
atomic clock
clock
hour hand
hourglass
lose
military time
minute hand
movement
pendulum
stroke
timepiece
turn the clocks backphrase
twenty-four-hour clock
unsynchronized
watchband