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What The Jewels In Watches Are For And How Watchmakers Use Jewels?

What The Jewels In Watches Are For And How Watchmakers Use Jewels?

Read our eye-opening look at mechanical watches and allow us to explain what the jewels in watches are for and how watchmakers use jewels in the mysterious and centuries-old craft of watchmaking.

Mechanical watches use spring-wound movements and therefore don't require a battery. So what are watch jewels and exactly what do jewels do in a watch? Like any mechanical device, there are gears that need to move or rotate. Watches are no different and also use bearings and these bearings that are found in the higher-end automatic and hand-wound watches are made out of jewels. These precious stones are smooth and don't allow much friction and are therefore used in order to make the movement of these metal and precious metal gears easier.

So yes, there are actually precious gems in the movement of your watch and usually quite a few of them!

Back in the day, watchmakers used natural genuine rubies to create these bearings, and more recently, they adopted the use of lab-created rubies (also known as synthetic rubies) or sapphires. The purpose of these jewels is to act as bearings to various components in the watch specifically the parts that make contact and would normally wear down easily such as the escape lever and the impulse jewel.

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