Sapphire

Um, so I went there, uh, there was two reasons for my visit.

One was attending a G-Shock event where they were going to be showing us this new Sapphire cased, uh, MRG G-Shock model.

Um, and, uh, yeah, it's a funny story to that.

The other reason, uh, was, uh, to go to the, um, to the watch time, uh, watch fair in Dusseldorf, uh, meet up with some of the guys from Fratello and record a podcast and um and uh yeah there was a little bit more success on that second side of things than on the first side because like i said with the g-shock thing unfortunately the watch it got stuck in customs from the uk on the way to the event and it didn't make it so we didn't get to see the watch Which these things happen, customs, it's always super tricky.

That one was really, really cool.

And then there was the 700 euro model, which is just a regular, well, regular G-Shock.

Um, that also incorporates the, the sort of the Sapphire elements.

Um, so it was cool to see those.

His spam filters are clearly far too sensitive and he's probably missing out on some really great conversations with people who have jewels for names.

Oh, and I have a younger sister and her name is, you guessed it, Sapphire.

My name is Sapphire.

Yes, as in the precious gemstone.

So we'd know whose stuff was whose.

This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman.

The music is by Martin Austrick of palebirdmusic.com and the experimental podcast Neutrino Watch and the podcast we make together, Ants Me This.

Thanks to the people who appeared on this episode, Casper Salmon, Cinnamon Nippard, Dennis Funk, Emerald Paston, Love is Wise, Paul Bay, Peregrine Andrews, Phoebe Judge, Princess Ojiaku, Sapphire Paston, Steve Pretty and Tiger Webb.

So also a brand that comes from...

Yeah, the Sapphire.

So that's really cool, the Blue Rose project.

Unfortunately, we heard that there was supposed to potentially be an appearance of this one, but it got held up in customs coming in from the UK.

But yeah, that's not, no, it's very impressive.

I mean, it's, okay, it's 20 pieces.

But yeah, I mean, you wouldn't thought that, you know, like Sapphire and Cheshire, like toughness goes in.

Apparently it does.

They have submitted a watch into GPHG.

I'm not entirely sure what year it was, but there was an article about them and this it's an all Sapphire case.

It's a Sapphire back.

It's a fully skeletonized movement.

It's a flying tourbillon automatic 60 hour power reserve, the whole nine yards.

I'm not saying you would.

I'm just looking at it from a construction standpoint.

Because the Sapphire case is going to be specific.

Number one, they both speak to craft.

So the 1908 introduced the Sapphire case back.

And I think the Drake collab has a Sapphire case back.

But they're both starting to show the movement of all of the finishing and the technicality at a level that people would perceive to be high quality.

Is it at the tech level? No, but it looks really impressive when you see it.

10, yeah.

Yeah, and so basically when you grow Sapphire, you're going to initially grow it, without getting too complicated about it, more or less into a block.

and then you'll cut the pieces out of that and so it does allow you as you grow as if technology is approved to be able to grow bigger pieces a three-dimensional piece

The thing is, is Sapphire, Rob, to your point, I was expecting clear Sapphire as well.

The Sapphire case concept is not new.

Hublot famously has the Big Bang Sapphire cases.

But what makes the G-Shock unique is that because it says G-Shock on it, and the Gold Watch was the same thing, in order to say G-Shock on it, The $80,000 gold G-Shock was subjected to the same rigorous tests as the $125 G-Shock.

The shock test, the drop tests, all the tests.

Ruby is used to stop bleeding and inflammation.

Sapphire supposedly reveals infidelity if it changes color, and since sapphire is bicroic, you can sometimes see two different colors in it when you look at it from a certain way, if you know gemology, so you can see where that would be problematic.

If you don't know gemology, then Sapphire's telling a different story.

And

Sapphire reveals fraud and treachery, and it helps avenge against enemies.

Turquoise was used against the evil eye, and it prevents horses from falling, and it also prevents you from being poisoned by scorpions.

Pearls were used as a Chinese talisman against fire and danger, and to this day, ground pearl is used in poultices and creams for women's skin.