horologist
Example Sentences
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Hoping to speak with him, I reached one of Asprey’s sons, who instead suggested a conversation with Andrew Crisford, an antiquarian horologist and founder of rare timepieces dealer Bobinet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
The watch auction on Wednesday will include three watches designed by the famed Parisian horologist Abraham-Louis Breguet, whose timepieces adorned European royalty in the 17th and 18th centuries, including Marie Antoinette.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2020
As a dedicated horologist, Mitchell was bound to write a novel about music, that art form most integrated with time.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2020
The paper says that since the retirement of the city's official horologist David Mitchell there has been no one qualified to wind Swansea's eight municipal clocks.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2015
The word horologist had been painted on the door of Father’s shop.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
