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It's kind of hard to judge by jewels>>

In Response To: The Family Jewels ()

The jewels are bearings. They're synthetic rubies, so it's not like they're precious or anything. I think the typical movement "needs" 17 to cover the friction points.

The Speedy Auto "Moon Watch Wannabe" has forty something jewels, mainly because it's actually just a regular movement with a chrono module attached. The forty something jewels doesn't mean a whole lot other than this movement has a lot of friction bearings.

Jeff

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The Family Jewels

Jewels are only a minor issue...

It's kind of hard to judge by jewels>>

As long as you have 2 (nt)

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0 wallclock secs ( 0.17 usr + 0.02 sys = 0.19 CPU)