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Today I wanted to share about watch crystals, as I think there's a lot of confusion about them.

Generally speaking, there are three kinds of watch crystals: plastic (acrylic), mineralized glass (also called "hardlex", or synthetic sapphire crystal (also just called sapphire).

The cheapest watches usually use plastic/acrylic. The problem with these crystals is they were easily scratched, and could soon look terrible. However, they were relatively easy to buff out and remove some of the scratches.

The mid-range watches typically use a tempered mineral glass or "hardlex" - which is a special kind of mineralized glass that holds up fairly well to daily use and is scratch resistant. The majority of watches are made with hardlex, and for most folks these crystals are perfectly fine. Keep in mind if a hardlex watch crystal is scratched or chipped, it cannot be buffed out, but must be replaced.

Finally, the higher end more expensive watches will use what they term "sapphire," which is really not sapphire at all but crystallized pure aluminum oxide, which has the same hardness as natural sapphire. Sapphire crystals are extremely resistant to scratching - in fact you'd have to scratch them with diamond or materials containing silicon carbide. These crystals require expensive processing, which makes them much more expensive to use in watches, driving up the price of the watch.

Most of our watches use hardlex, which under normal circumstances holds up well, and also allows for more moderately priced watches.

I hope this has been helpful. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments, and please like our page if you find value here. Thanks.

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