watchmaker

English

a watchmaker

Etymology

From watch +‎ maker. Compare clockmaker.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔtʃˌmeɪkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

watchmaker (plural watchmakers)

2. A craftsperson or company who makes and/or maintains watches.

   Hypernyms: horologist, horologer

   Coordinate terms: clockmaker, clocksmith

   The watchmakers of Switzerland were pioneers of screw machine technology.

3. (philosophy, religion, often capitalized) God in His role as the creator according to the watchmaker analogy.

   Near-synonym: clockmaker

   We have the great watchmaker to thank for these glorious sunrises and sunsets.

Related terms

• watchmaking

Translations

person who makes and/or maintains watches

• Albanian: sahatçi (sq) m, orëndreqës (sq) m
• Arabic: سَاعَاتِيّ m (sāʕātiyy)
• Armenian: ժամագործ (hy) (žamagorc)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: гадзі́ншчык m (hadzínščyk), гадзі́ншчыца f (hadzínščyca)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: часовника́р (bg) m (časovnikár), часовника́рка f (časovnikárka)
• Carpathian Rusyn: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: rellotger (ca) m, rellotgera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐘錶匠 / 钟表匠 (zh) (zhōngbiǎojiàng)

• Czech: hodinář (cs) m, hodinářka f
• Danish: urmager (da) c
• Dutch: horlogemaker (nl) m, klokkenmaker (nl) m, uurwerkmaker (nl) m
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: ursmiður m
• Finnish: kelloseppä (fi)
• French: horloger (fr), horlogère (fr) f
• Galician: reloxeiro (gl) m, reloxeira f
• Georgian: მესაათე (mesaate)
• German: Uhrmacher (de) m, Uhrmacherin (de) f
• Hebrew: שָׁעָן / שֶׁעָן (he) m (sha'án), שענית f (sha'anít)
• Icelandic: úrsmiður (is) m
• Irish: uaireadóirí m
• Italian: orologiaio (it) m, orologiaia f
• Japanese: 時計師 (ja) (とけいし, tokeishi), 時計屋 (ja) (とけいや, tokeiya)
• Kazakh: сағатшы (sağatšı)
• Korean: 시계사(時計師) (sigyesa)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: часовничар m (časovničar), часовничарка f (časovničarka), часовникар m (časovnikar), часовникарка f (časovnikarka)
• Malay: tukang arloji
• Maltese: arluġġar m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urmaker (no) m

  Nynorsk: urmakar m

• Occitan: relòtgièr m, relotgièra (oc) f
• Pannonian Rusyn: годзинкар m (hodzinkar)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: zegarmistrz (pl) m pers, zegarmistrzyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: relojoeiro (pt) m, relojoeira f
• Romanian: ceasornicar (ro) m, orologier (ro) m (rare)
• Russian: часовщи́к (ru) m (časovščík), часовщи́ца f (časovščíca), часово́й ма́стер m (časovój máster)
• Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: часовничар m, у̀ра̄р m

  Latin: časovničar (sh) m, ùrār (sh) m

• Slovak: hodinár (sk) m, hodinárka f
• Slovene: urar m, urarka f
• Spanish: relojero (es) m, relojera f
• Swedish: urmakare (sv) c
• Tagalog: relohero
• Tajik: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: годинника́р m (hodynnykár), годинника́рка f (hodynnykárka)
• Uzbek: soatsoz (uz)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: glokel (vo)
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can