There are said to be about thirty-six distinct kinds of employment in making and putting together the parts of a piano; there are about forty trades engaged in watchmaking; in the cotton business there are more than a hundred occupations.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
In watchmaking it has been carried, perhaps, to the greatest extent.
"On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures"
Charles Babbage
Nevertheless, for all that, England never thrived at watchmaking as did France, Switzerland and our own nation.
"Christopher and the Clockmakers"
Sara Ware Bassett