Hello and fresh from the showcase here at SwissWatchExpo. Today, I'd like to talk about
some watches that we have that have a nice variation of precious gemstone in them. These
watches all have sapphires in them on the hardness scale of those, for those that are familiar with
the Mohs scale of hardness, they talk about what level of durability a certain stone has. And
most people know that diamond is considered a 10. It's the highest level of hardness on the scale.
And right below that coming in at 9, it's going to be Sapphire. So it's a, it's a brilliant stone.
It's got that deep, rich blue color that we see. It's got a very pure color and it's very clear.
It's something that you can see into as opposed to some of the other stones that are found in watches
like the lapis lazuli, the aventurine, they have blue to them, but they don't have that clear,
precious gem feel that like a diamond or a Ruby or an Emerald would have.
And so they've, they've started to incorporate these sapphires into the watches that adds a nice
level of complexity, a little bit of extra depth and some nice pop that can really set your watch
apart from other watches that are out there. So they do this in a couple of different variations,
right? A lot of us are familiar with, you know, the Serti dial, right? So this is going to be a
dial that has diamonds located throughout the hour markers, right? Not all of them
though. Right? We still got this you know, the date aperture or complication at three
o'clock. But if you look at the six o'clock, nine o'clock and 12 o'clock hour marker positions,
they actually have sapphires within them. So you're getting a combination of the diamonds
and the sapphires, which really brings a lot of extra color and panache to the watch.
Now you don't have to just go with the Serti dial if you're looking for
having sapphires included on your watch. So here I've got a Rolex Datejust, and it also has the,
it's got diamond hour markers, very similar to the Serti dial,
but at the six o'clock in the nine o'clock, they've got the Arabic numeral. So you can
see that it is a six and a nine, but if you actually get up and look at it, each one of
those individually has 16 sapphires that are set individually inside that individual hour marker,
totalling the 32 sapphires plus the additional eight diamonds that come with this watch. Now,
if you're looking for a little bit more amount of Sapphire in your watch to really set it off, they
also make it in the bezel form. Now we, a lot of us have seen, you know, a diamond bezel where they
take individual cut stones that often have like a, a princess cut or a round cut type of stone.
And when you do that, there ends up having a lot of space in between the stones where the
setting mechanism, you know, the rest of the bezel, that's actually holding in that stone.
And so here, Rolex has actually altered that design. And instead of cutting these in a round or
a princess or a similar type cut that would have all of that extra space around them, and they're
cut more square and in a position where all you see going around the entire bezel
is just a string of sapphires that smoothly connects all the way around.
Beautiful choices, different sizes are available. It's not just for ladies. It's not just for men.
If you're looking to expand your collection out a little bit of color and uniqueness,
come check out the Sapphire stones that you can find in all of our many of our watches here at
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