and can you give me any more info on it too please? thanks :)
Quart Crystals are used to KEEP time in watches. Quartz crystals vibrate when electricity is applied, and with come careful tuning, their vibration frequency is VERY VERY accurate and stable (Quartz Crystal are used to generate the timing in computers, too). Therefore the watch keeps perfect time. Sapphires are often used as bearings in watches. the sapphire provides a very smooth and low-friction bearing, without catches to interfere with time keeping, and they are also very durable, so the watch does not wear out as quickly. All QUARTZ watches are electric, battery powered. they can be either mechanical (with second/minute/hour hands) or have a digital, numeric readout. Quartz watches generally do NOT have a winding stem. I assume that your SAPPHIRE watch is mechanical, with moving hands, and probably has a winding stem, which requires you to wind the spring every couple of days or so. It MIGHT be a self-winding watch, which winds the spring based on your movements.
Quartz is a mineral that when vibrating shakes at a very accurate, consistent, movement, thats why they use it in watches cuz the time between the beats is exactly the same(or almost).
The quartz crystal is used to regulate the time. It is similar to the radioactive materials in atomic clocks, even though quartz is not radioactive. It has a specific vibration that can be used to regulate the time. Sapphire is a form of corundum, containing transition metal ions that provide the colour. It is also used as a timekeeping element.
Quartz crystal technology permit cheap watches be extremely accurate, they use batteries provide electric power, atomic clock quartz watch accurate of one second at 274,000 years I read at watch website, traditional mechanical watches not nearly so accurate, sapphire is jewel usually blue, maybe pink too, Cartier watch often have blue sapphire at crown, best watches have sapphire glass crystals, Bonia watches at Malaysia, one model is Tesoro, mean Jewel, some have jewels at bezel around dial.
