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Why luxury watches contain tiny rubies
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Luxury watches are aggressively filled with precious gems that absolutely nobody will ever see. High-end mechanical timepieces heavily use synthetic rubies as precise bearings for their spinning gears. The extreme hardness dramatically reduces metal-on-metal friction, ensuring the microscopic gears can spin for decades without grinding themselves into dust.
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