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A jewel bearing is a plain bearing in which a metal spindle turns in a jewel-lined pivot hole. The hole is typically shaped like a torus and is slightly larger than the shaft diameter. The jewels are typically made from the mineral corundum , usually either synthetic sapphire or synthetic ruby .
Started sales of jewel bearings for watches and clocks. 1959 - The Company Changed name to Adamant Kogyo Co., Ltd. 1960 - Began to manufacture jewelled bearings for watches. 1967 - Akita Factory was set up at Yuzawa City, Akita. 1969 - Started manufacturing and sales of component parts for medical equipment.
The American system of watch manufacturing is a set of manufacturing techniques and best-practices to be used in the manufacture of watches and timepieces. It is derived from the American system of manufacturing techniques (also called "armory practices"), a set of general techniques and guidelines for manufacturing that was developed in the 19th century.
The company was founded in 1939 as Namiki Seisakusho to make jewel bearings for electric meters. In 1953, the company was reorganized as Namiki Precision Jewel Co., Ltd. In 1957, Adamant Shoji Co., Ltd., was spun off from Namiki Precision Jewel Co., Ltd., in order to segregate sales by source.
Adamant Namiki uses integrated manufacturing, handling its products from the raw material, to processing, through to polishing. Industrial jewels, such as diamond, sapphire, and ruby, are used for jewel bearings, sapphire substrates, [4] [5] exterior watch parts, semiconductor wire bonding capillaries, nozzles, LTCC [6] (Co-fired ceramic) and so on.
The lower jewel is called the 'hole jewel', the upper one is the 'capstone' or 'end jewel'. This type of bearing is used in watches where friction is critical, such as in the balance wheel pivots. With ordinary bearings (shown in Watch jewel bearing.svg ), when the watch is vertical the shoulder of the shaft bears against the face of the hole ...
Namiki Precision Jewel Co., Ltd. (並木精密宝石株式会社, Namiki Seimitu Houseki Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese component manufacturing company based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded in 1939 as a manufacturer of synthetic sapphire jewel bearings for electrical measuring instruments.
Hard stones such as diamond, ruby, and sapphire were often used as jewel bearings to decrease friction and wear of the pivots and escapement. Chronometer makers also took advantage of the physical properties of rare metals such as gold, platinum , and palladium .