I'm a watchmaker. While actually making watches isn't my job (the number of people on the planet who actually make watches from start to finish is perhaps a few dozen) I service, repair, and maintain watches- mechanical primarily, but also some quartz. I also have training to work on vintage watches, including the early electric and electronic types, and tuning fork and Accutron technologies. Very few watchmakers are familiar enough with the electrics and tuning forks to work on them, so I'm glad I was able to get that training, though the extent of my work with them now is mostly personal hobby or the occasional friend with one that needs work. My day to day work involves overhauling watches- diagnosing problems, disassembly, cleaning, reassembly, lubrication, regulation, and casing. It's about the equivalent to pulling the engine from a car, pulling it completely apart and rebuilding it, and then replacing it. Except much smaller- it varies from model to model but sometimes hundreds of parts in a package the size of a few coins stacked on each other. One of the movements I've been working a lot with recently is an ultrathin movement from Piaget, at 2.1mm thick.
I previously worked for about a year with a locally owned Mom and Pop type jewelry store doing watchmaking, but also acting as sales, running the engraving machine, and some minor jewelry repair. About 6 months ago I started working for a new company,
Richemont, which is the third largest luxury goods company in the world- they do high end watches (obviously), jewelry, writing instruments, leather goods, clothing, and firearms. I'm in the workshop doing watch repair, started primarily with Baume & Mercier, some work with Montblanc, and recently they've moved me more into Cartier, working on their higher end collections.
Here's one of my projects from last week: