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A professional who operates vertical- or horizontal-drill press to countersink drilled holes in watch parts. Responsibilities include:
* Places part in bed or chuck of press.
* Aligns countersinking bit and hole, using loupe, and advances bit manually to automatic stop device.
* Removes part from press and measures depth of countersink, using precision dial gauge.
* May countersink screw holes around periphery of balance wheels and be designated balance screw hole countersinker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who forms chains of various shapes and designs from gold wire to make jewelry articles according to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Winds wire into coils, using coiling device.
* Saws coils through one side to form separate links, using handsaw.
* Assembles links in specified manner to form rope chain or fancy links, using pointed pliers.
* Solders links to form chain, using gold solder and gas torch.
* Immerses chain in chemical baths to clean gold.
* Polishes chain, using jeweler's rouge and felt polishing wheel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who identifies, wraps, and packages samples of sheet film for in-process testing according to specified procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Reads test requests for film in various stages of production and locates, removes, and batches sample sheets of specified film.
* Wraps, packages, and labels samples according to process stage and characteristics of film selected.
* Routes samples to testing department.
* Examines tested film, sorts rejected and approved sheets, and segregates rejected sheets with salvageable areas for cutting.
* Maintains records of film tested and test results.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies coating of opaque porcelain over cast metal tooth cap, using brush. Responsibilities include:
* Mixes porcelain of specified color and water to required consistency.
* Brushes porcelain mixture over surfaces of metal cap.
* Places cap in electric oven for specified time to dry and harden porcelain.
* Removes cap and examines cap to ensure even application and smoothness of coating.
* Routes workpiece to specified department for application of finish porcelain.
* May grind and shape dried porcelain to contours of metal cap, using abrasive wheels.
* May measure dimensions of tooth cap and verify occlusion, using gauges and articulator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines assembled watch balance bridges to detect scratches and damaged screws and cap jewels, using loupe and tweezers.
* Centers regulator, using tweezers, and verifies that jewel is properly oiled, using loupe.
* Segregates faulty balance bridges.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who engraves lettering and ornamental designs on soft metal articles, such as silverware, trophies, aluminum or plastic eyeglass frames, and jewelry articles, according to sketches, diagrams, photographs, or sample workpieces, using engraver's handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Lays out design or lettering to be engraved on object by brushing chalklike powder or solution on item and sketching design in powder, locating reference points, and marking outline of design on item, using scribers or gravers, or by imprinting design on surface of item, using inked rubber stamp, and marking outline, using scribers.
* Mounts piece in chuck and affixes chuck in jeweler's ball (rotating vise) or mounts piece directly in jeweler's ball.
* Cuts design in workpiece, using chisel-like engraving tools.
* May sketch original designs.
* May be designated according to kind of product engraved as flatware engraver; jewelry engraver; optical frames engraver; or according to specialty as lettering engraver; ornamental design engraver.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects optical glass immersed in chemical bath, to detect striae (internal stresses). Responsibilities include:
* Selects premixed chemical solution or mixes liquid chemicals in tank according to refraction index and grade of glass.
* Immerses glass in bath and focuses burton lamp, collimating light, or striae scope on glass to detect internal stresses (striae).
* Marks defective areas with pencil.
* Writes inspection results and maintains permanent records for each melt.
* Sorts and grades glass according to type of defect noted.
* May operate transmission machine to examine glass for strain.
* May saw glass stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who installs, repairs, maintains, and adjusts indicating, recording, telemetering, and controlling instruments and test equipment, used to control and measure variables, such as pressure, flow, temperature, motion, force, and chemical composition, using precision instruments, and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Disassembles malfunctioning instruments or test equipment, such as bargraphs, electrical ovens, multimeters, environmental cabinets, and weatherometers, and examines and tests mechanisms and circuitry for defects.
* Replaces or repairs defective parts, using handtools.
* Reassembles instrument or test equipment, and tests assembly for conformance to specifications, using instruments, such as potentiometer, resistance bridge, manometer, and pressure gauge.
* Inspects instruments and test equipment periodically and adjusts calibration to ensure functioning within specified standards.
* May calibrate instruments or test equipment according to established standards.
* May be designated according to type of instrument repaired as aircraft instrument repairer; panel-instrument repairer; x-ray-control-equipment repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who forms arbor end and arbor spiral on watch mainsprings so arbor end will fit snugly around arbor hole, using hand forming tool.
* Mounts mainspring and arbor blanks in forming tool, using tweezers, and moves levers to form specified end and spiral.
Industry:Professional careers
