Jewels in watch movements

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I read somewhere that manufacturers ad jewels to certain calibers so as to mke their movements look pretier. I know jewels are used to prevent execive wear in certain surfaces where friction takes place, like the  blance the staff, seconds hand mechanisms, etc.So the obvious question:  Is a 35 jewel movement "better" than a 27 or 17 because it has more jewels, or is it just cosmetics ?

 

 

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Simple answer is no.

http://people.timezone.com/library/wwatchfaq/wwatchfaq631668591017665598

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Simple answer is no.

http://people.timezone.com/library/wwatchfaq/wwatchfaq631668591017665598

 

That was great piece of information on the topic. Thank you.

 

In a way, it corroborates the Jewel myth I was mentioning, and I quote :

 

"As a historical note, there was a "jewel craze" about 50 years ago, where manufacturers, under the belief that the public thought more was always better, came up with 75 or even 100 jewel movements. Most of these jewels were not functional in any way, and the results looked ludicrous to an informed eye."

 

Looks that 17 and 25 is the average number fo a manual wind and automatic, according to the article. Unless we think of a highly complicate movement.