Apparently not, though, as [NightHawkInLight] reveals his trivially easy method for making synthetic rubies. Like their gemstone cousin the sapphire, rubies are just a variety of corundum ...

Always ahead of trends, the brand very quickly started to use synthetic sapphire for parts of its movements, such as the baseplate, winding barrel bridge, tourbillon bridge and, a few years later ...

We use the Kyropoulos (Musatov) sapphire growth method, which allows us to produce high-quality sapphire parts in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and orientations. We work with our customers to ...