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n. - Someone who makes or repairs watches.

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  • Thomas Mudge was the first horologist who successfully applied it to watches in the detached form, about 1750.
  • The author of the site, Ray Bates, is an antiquarian horologist in Vermont, and has this description of the bird:
  • The world is a real clock work world, and to save the world, Hethor, an apprentice horologist, must wind the mainspring.
  • In other words, so far the balance of our reasoning is in favor of the club tooth escapement and to effect an intelligent division of angles for tooth, pallet and lift is one...
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