vbl. sb. The The making of watches.
1729. Mandeville, Fab. Bees (1733), II. 336. Watch-making … is come to a higher degree of perfection, than it would … if [etc.].
1879. Encycl. Brit., X. 148/2. Watchmaking was already carried to a high degree of perfection, under the influence of Charles Cusin, who had settled in the town [Geneva] in 1587.
attrib. 1871. Carlyle, in Mrs. Carlyle’s Lett., II. 219. An innocent, good lad, who has learned the watchmaking business.
