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The ‘watch doctor’ turns back time on old devices

The only independent female watchmaker in the United Kingdom, Rebecca Struthers restores and repairs vintage watches using traditional techniques.
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Rebecca Struthers at a workbench covered in tools in her workshop inspects a golden watch with a magnifying eyeglass

Rebecca Struthers is a watchmaker and historian at Struthers Watchmakers in Birmingham, UK. Credit: Andy Pilsbury for Nature

I dropped out of secondary school to run away to art school, where I studied jewellery and silversmithing. But I missed science and technology, so at 19, I switched to watchmaking. I got my master’s degree in the history of art and design, and my PhD in eighteenth-century watch production and accessibility.

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Nature 611, 844 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03799-x

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