Richard Mille has pushed the boundaries of horological innovation with its introduction of coloured sapphire. The slightest ...

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 ...

which allows us to produce high-quality sapphire parts in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and orientations. We work with our customers to custom design and develop sapphire parts that are capable of ...

The constraints inherent to the use of synthetic sapphire at Richard Mille are unprecedented. Firstly, the complex, curved shapes of its cases have meant that new, particularly demanding machining ...