What does the jewels on high-end watches do?

They then heavily marketed this fact so consumers would think their relatively inexpensive watch was of a higher quality. Your two watches may have different amounts of jewels due to specific movement design. read more

The jewels (usually synthetic sapphires/rubies) are used as ultra low friction bearings for the various gear shafts and the escapment. A typical fully jeweled watch will have 17 jewels. Some will have fewer and in a few cases, there may even be more. read more

To combat metal-on-metal wear watchmakers needed to find a substance that was harder than metal and so began the use of jewels within watches. The jewels that are hard enough are diamonds, sapphires and rubies. read more

Your DX watches have a varity of jewel counts and it all way puzzled me why. read more