Sapphire is a corundum gemstone that has meaning, properties, and uses. Corundum gemstones are the crystalline form of aluminum oxide with traces of iron, titanium, vanadium, and chromium. Sapphire is ...

There's been a lot of buzz around sapphire, an extremely hard material that smartphone makers are using to produce scratch-proof screen displays. Huawei, the world's third largest smartphone maker, ...

Single crystals of atomically thin sapphire have been prepared at room temperature — something that many scientists thought was impossible. These materials could enable the development of the next ...

Close to the top-end of the luxury watch market are these three highly limited production Richard Mille watches with cases produced from sapphire crystal. Each costs over a million dollars, with the ...

Imagine you’ve just spent $3 million on a new Bugatti Chiron, and want an appropriately pricey and suitably unique watch to go along with it. Innovative watchmaker Jacob & Co. has exactly what you ...

September ushers out the summer's heat and brings in the crisp fall season. Along with several holidays, September is home to the birthdays of millions of people across the globe. This gem comes from ...

The dial is made of sapphire crystal, so that beyond the white gold hands and the chapter ring on the inner dial, there is nothing to impede the view of the movement. The baguette diamonds that serve ...

Sapphire crystal, held up by analysts and industry watchers as a wonder material that's virtually indestructible, was a no-show as the display on the new iPhone 6. It's an anticlimactic end to months ...

Watches & Wonders 2022, which wraps up on Friday in Geneva, will be remembered as a year of impressive technical launches and refreshing designs. In the midst of it all, Chopard debuted a new system ...

During a recent interview, Huawei’s CEO Richard Yu showed off a modified version of the Ascend P7 smartphone, fitted with a sapphire crystal screen, and even encouraged people to try and scratch the ...