Both profession are similar in that it requires a certain ''artistic'' touch, imho.
Both trades are a dying art too....
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Both profession are similar in that it requires a certain ''artistic'' touch, imho.
Both trades are a dying art too....
Meara had to wait a bit of a while prior to being accepted into the training/certification program. It was quite a while ago now, but I think it was two years to complete the training syllabus and complete the certification testing process.
As long as there are people willing to spend thousands of dollars on a timepiece, I assume there will be work servicing and repairing those watches. Neither the makers of those timepieces or the places that service and repair them appear to be going out of business:
3'000-hour Program | WOSTEP
Asia is chock-full of people with excellent manual skills and attention to detail.
The West can produce or perish. Our role as originators and inventors of most of what the world copies and develops won't save us.
Sadly the dolts who run most of the Western World, and the dumbed-down who increasingly populate most of it, don't seem to appreciate this fact.