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A watchmaker is one who primarily repairs watches, although historically this person also made watches. A contemporary, well-trained watchmaker is more likely to be able to repair a wristwatch or a pocketwatch than to actually build or manufacture a watch from scratch. Watchmakers can typically manufacture many of the parts found in a wristwatch or a pocketwatch.
A watchmaker, as the name infers, works primarily on watches, not clocks. Some watchmakers work on clocks, but the skills and tools needed to work on a watch aren't always applicable when working on a clock.
William Paley used the watch to infer argument from design for the existence of God; hence God is the watchmaker. Later Richard Dawkins would use this analogy in his book The Blind Watchmaker; evolution the source of origins is blind in that it cannot look forward.
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