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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 578002, member: 22&quot;]Yes they are Rubies but not worth bothering with, they are bearings.</p><p><br /></p><p>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). The purpose of these jewels is to act as bearings to various components in the watch.</p><p><br /></p><p>I get quite a lot of these, unless exceptional, I scrap the case and sell around 4-5 movements as a job lot for spares.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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