What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clock Technician position at Aubrey's Clock and Watches?
About the workshop:
We restore vintage and antique mechanical clocks — wall, floor, and mantel pieces that are often
80–150 years old and irreplaceable. We value care, patience, and honesty over speed.
The role:
The senior technical role in our two-level workshop (service specialist technician). You own the
movement in full: everything that requires taking a movement apart or repairing a part lands on your
bench — including work the industry assigns to a master clockmaker. You can also do everything the
service specialist does except case restoration itself: movement extraction, whole-movement cleaning
and oiling, movement replacement, and testing.
What you must be able to do:
• Fully disassemble a mechanical clock movement, diagnose the fault, and repair it.
• Mechanical repairs: broken or worn wheel teeth, bent pivots, bushing installation and replacement,
mainspring replacement, wheel straightening and truing, and any other mechanical fault behind a
misbehaving movement.
• Confident use of standard bench tools and specialized clockmaker's tools: bushing tool, mainspring
winder and let-down tool, clockmaker's lathe, loupes and magnification, ultrasonic cleaning
equipment.
• Solid knowledge of the complete movement architecture — going, strike, and chime trains and the
escapement — across American, German, French, and other common movement types.
• A conservator's mindset: minimal intervention, reversibility, preservation of original parts and
patina.
Scope and workflow:
• Take over movements the specialist flags as needing mechanical intervention: from that point the
movement is fully yours — cleaning, fault determination, and repair — and you work it
independently end to end.
• Act as the technical reference for the service specialist: observe, answer questions, and advise
when they hit something unfamiliar. Both roles work independently — the specialist is not your
assistant, and their tasks stay their own.
• Work on our premises with our bench, tools, and equipment, following the workshop's documented
protocols and repair cards.
• Perform final fine regulation based on the eight-day test results; advise on rare and museum-grade
pieces with the manager.
• Track the stock of repair parts and supplies (bushings, mainsprings, cables, and the rest) and report
anything running low to the manager, who places the orders.
Terms:
• Part-time position, with additional hours available depending on workshop workload.
• On-site in Issaquah, WA. W-2 employment, paid hourly: from $45/hour minimum, with raises based
on your skills and integration into the workshop; further growth comes with promotion to a senior
Head of Workshop role.
• 1–2 years of hands-on movement repair experience expected; AWCI (CC21) or BHI certification is a
plus, not a requirement. Hiring includes a practical test: a hands-on repair of a movement.
• Big plus: technical case-restoration skills — carving finials, specialized woodwork, cutting and fitting
glass.
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This position covers mechanical clocks only — no wristwatch work. To apply, tell us about your
experience and, if possible, show examples of past movement repairs: contact@waantiques.com | 1
(619) 757-5830 | www.aubreysclockgallery.com