Offices were established in London, and America began to take her place among the big watchmaking countries of the world.
Now," added he, "I have roughly sketched for you the tale of watchmaking in America.
But like every other watchmaking project this one swallowed up a great many dollars before any watches were to be seen.
In the infancy of watchmaking it took a good factory worker a whole day to make from eight to twelve hundred screws.
Nevertheless, for all that, England never thrived at watchmaking as did France, Switzerland and our own nation.
Lying there on the dark crimson velvet was a watch--a gold repeater--bearing the stamp of America's first and oldest watchmaking factory.
I guess it was just as well, too, for I never appreciated watchmaking until Mr. McPhearson told me what a really good watch meant.
To fully appreciate the difficulties of their venture, you must keep in mind the fact that previous to this time watchmaking had never been conducted along modern lines.
Not only were numberless excellent workmen thrown out of their jobs and the watchmaking industry given a general setback, but the public, just coming to appreciate the value of a good timepiece, was vastly inconvenienced.
Therefore watchmaking as an industry did not exist in this country.
By a decree of the Convention, these exiles were accorded succour, after which the Committee declaredwatchmaking in the Department of the Doubs to be a national institution.
The watchmaking school located in the picturesque old Grenier, or public granary of the city, numbers over a hundred pupils of both sexes, and is of course gratuitous.
Watchmaking is, as is well known, the speciality of Besançon, and dates as an important branch of industry from the year 1793.
This, then, was the situation at about the middle of the nineteenth century when watchmaking in America was beginning to grow into a large industry.
However, while the watchmaking industry was developing in France, it gave forth a seed which took root in new soil.
About 1855 he entered the watchmakingbusiness in the employ of the Waltham Watch Co.
Meanwhile, he, too, was making watchmakinghistory by his improvements.
He was essentially one of the "fathers" of American watchmaking because it was through his financing and clever management that the first watch company finally succeeded in making a financial success.
The two principal centers of Swiss watchmaking have been mentioned although, of course, watches were made in other districts as well.
But as regards watchmaking in England, the substitution never became complete, for the bulldog quality in the Englishman has always made him hold fast to his ideas.
His long experience in watch case and movement making and his commercial training made his judgment on matters relating to watchmaking of value.
Perhaps the most notable contribution of this company to the watchmaking industry was to inaugurate the modern thin type of watch.
Tessie worked at watchmaking because it was light, pleasant, and well paid.
In such industries as those of watchmaking the factory worker, though upon the average his work requires less manual dexterity than the handworker in the older method, may get more intellectual exercise in the course of his work.
When the child's mother died, Benjamin and Adah Platt adopted the boy, and when he came of age he went into the watchmaking trade.
However, he "did not push the business of Watchmaking and Clockmaking so hard, for the manufacture of nautical instruments and surveyors instruments was a more important part of his business.
In truth, watchmaking aside, there is no one for whom I would exchange him; but I know too well the value of time which he taught me to measure to waste it by similar trifling.
In California, by the assistance of Chinese, watchmaking is making great strides.
Watchmaking by machinery on a large and comprehensive scale has been brought to a wonderful degree of perfection in various parts of the United States.
Some of the watchmakingmachines were exhibited at Philadelphia.
Just as that old system of weaving vanished in the introduction of the power-loom moved by machinery, so is watchmaking by hand about to pass away in Switzerland, and some other quarters.
Geneva, as is pretty well known, has long been a busy centre of the Swiss watchmaking trade, the work executed being minute, elegant, and trustworthy.
The only trouble in applying this motto towatchmaking is to know when you are right.
There was a table in front of Felix and against the window, covered with his watchmaking implements and some open books.
That's why I set myself to learn the watchmaking trade.
Thus the Baroccio family were celebrated for the accuracy of their mathematical instruments and timepieces, while watchmaking attracted great attention from all the della Rovere dukes.
This company has now not only well-nigh driven foreign watchmaking companies out of America, but it has shown that it can more than compete with them on their own ground.
It is the bringing of machinery to every branch of watchmaking that is enabling Americans to beat the world in this as well as in many other things.
It has now been established that machinery can be used for the purposes of watchmaking with quite as much success as for those of agriculture.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watchmaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
