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.