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Builds the thing that will outlive everyone who complains about its ticking.
means A craftsperson who designs, builds, or repairs clocks and the intricate mechanisms that make them tick.
from A straightforward compound of 'clock' plus 'maker' — the trade name growing alongside the device itself. 'Clock' traces back through Middle English and Old French to Medieval Latin 'clocca,' meaning bell, since the earliest mechanical timepieces announced the hour by striking rather than by showing a face. So a clockmaker was, at root, someone who built bells that counted time.
- deist's god
- philosophers borrowed the trade to explain the universe
- guild status
- once required seven years' apprenticeship before touching gears
- job hazard
- precision demands steadier hands than surgery, less glory
- longevity flex
- some 18th-century clocks still keep better time than phones