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hands assembler
A professional who attaches hands to faces of clocks and watches. Responsibilities include:
- Places movement in holding fixture of hand staking tool.
- Positions hour hand on hour wheel and forces hand over arbor to secure friction tight fit, using staking punch.
- Positions minute hand over cannon pinion of minute wheel and secures fit, using staking punch.
- Aligns hour hand with specified hour marking, and minute hand with numeral twelve.
- Bends tips of hands with tweezers to conform to curvature of dial.
- Presses second hand over fourth wheel arbor and secures fit.
- Winds watch and observes movement of hands to determine specified clearance between hands, dial, and crystal.
- Observes and handles minute parts, using loupe and tweezers.
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