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What is a jewal in a pocket watch?
Watches have many moving parts, with wheels and pivots and shafts that can cause wear where they are held in place. So instead of metal moving against metal, which would cause friction and wear, watch makers designed jewels which cause very little friction or wear. The jewels can be made of diamonds, sapphires, or most commonly rubies, with a small hole drilled in them to hold the shaft of a pivot or wheel. More jewels are an indicator of watch quality, in general the higher the jewel count, the less wear and friction the watch will have, and the more accurate and long lasting the timepiece will be. There are many different kinds of jewels including balance, friction, flat, center, pallet and roller jewels. Each are physically different, but are designed to reduce friction and wear on a moving metal part inside a mechanical watch. Each jewel will help the watch run more smoothly, more accurately and have a longer life. Each jewel adds to the cost and complexity of a watch movement, therefore a watch with more jewels costs more to make and makes the watch more valuable and long lasting http://www.pocketwatcher.org/category/.watch_information.jewelswhatarethey/
What are jewels made of?
watch jewl are made from cut up jewels
What are jewels when talking about a watch?
Jewels are typically attached around the frame of the watch, or ocassionally around the band. Such jewels can be cubic zirconia or actual gens such as diamons and opals.
What does 12 jewels on a wrist watch mean?
In a watch, the jewels refer to bearings for the shafts of the various moving parts as well as the escapement. Jewels, as opposed to plain bushings, tend to be harder and lower friction and thus wear far less and also tend to make the watch run better. The 7 jewels is the minimum for a functional jeweled movement, this includes 2 jewels for the balance wheel pivots, and balance wheel pivot caps, one roller jewel and 2 pallet jewels (the roller and pallets are part of the escapement). Higher jewel counts have more of the wheels (gears) in jeweled bearings.
What is the maximum jewels a watch can have?
A very large number, if you include decorative jewels.
Why do watches have jewels?
The "jewels" in a jeweled movement watch are not the ones that you see on the outside. Polished jewel "bearings" are created for the moving parts inside the watch. If all of the moving parts were "metal on metal", the watch would wear out much sooner. Jeweled movement watches last longer and are able to go longer between maintenance.
What is the order of the jules on nabooti island?
The order the jewels go in are purple @ the top, green, red ,white then blue watch what happens next...
What is nineteen jewels on a watch?
The numbers of jewels that are referred to in watch movements all depends on the make and manufacture of the watch. Certain companies like Waltham used extra jewels in the mechanisms of their watches, and 19 was referred to as a 19 jewel movement.
What happens if you don't wear an automatic movement watch often?
Keep it in a watch winder is the best choice!
Why does your watch have 21 jewels?
There's a good discussion of jewels in watches here: http://elginwatches.org/help/watch_jewels.html
Is a watch with a higher number of jewels best?
Not necessarily. The jewels, often rubies, are intended to provide almost frictionless operation of moving parts. Their effectiveness depends on the quality of the jewels as well as the craftmanship with which the moving parts of the watch are manufactured and assembled.
What are headband jewels?
Headband Jewels are accessories made to wear on headbands. These jewels are sold in a variety of color and style including: sequin headband jewels, glitter jewels for head bands, and butterflies and dragonflies adorn baby headbands.
