Different types of Crystal Glass used in your Wrist Watch

While wearing a stylish Wrist Watch, rocking the party, and grabbing everyone’s attention, have you ever given a thought to the fact that the glass on your Wrist Watch is also made of some special kind of material, a special kind of crystal. Till now you might have not considered it, but from now own you will while wearing a Wrist Watch and while buying one also. The glass that you see on the head of your Wrist Watch of which you take care the most as a slight hit can break it, it is simply not any glass, it’s made of special crystal, that differs from watch to watch. A crystal glass that you find on a budget watches may be different from what you will get on mid-range watches, and the same shift happens when you go further high in range to buy premium watches. If you are going to buy budget watches, it shouldn’t matter much, but in case you are going to buy a slightly expensive watch or a very expensive watch, you should know if you are getting the value for money or not. 

Today we are here to tell you about the different types of crystal used in the glass of your Wrist Watch, and how they differ from each other.

Types of Crystal Glass Used in Your Wrist Watch:

Acrylic Crystal Glass - 

The Acrylic crystal glass also called as resin glass sometimes. The Acrylic crystal glass is mostly found in the budget watches, but are still used by many expensive watch companies due to its certain properties. These crystals can get scratched easily, but are equally easy to polish again, making the maintenance quite easy. The best thing about these glasses is that it does not shatter into pieces while it breaks, thus making it ideal to be used on low-end sports watches. Due to the same quality, the glass was used on the Speed master watch of Omega that was sent to the moon. The not shattering quality added extra safety from the floating pieces of glass in the space.

Mineral Crystal Glass -

Next better in the list is the Glass made from Mineral Crystal. You can see Mineral Crystal Glass used on most of the Mid-range or less expensive watches. The Glass is highly scratch resistant and requires heavy pressure or extreme conditions to break. The mineral glass crystal is chemically treated and is 7 times more strong than Acrylic Crystal Glass. Even though being very strong the replacement of these glasses on your watch once broke is affordable.

Sapphire Crystal Glass -

Those who know about the Sapphire crystal might know what the real deal is, the sapphire crystal scores 9/10 on the Moh scale, it falls behind of diamond very slightly. The Moh scale is used to measure the hardness of a material. The Sapphire Crystal glass is one of the strongest glass out there and most expensive too. It is mostly used on Expensive or luxuries watches. Even though the Sapphire crystal glass is very expensive they worth the money. They are scratch and breakage proof, only materials which can scratch it might be the other sapphire glass or diamond.

These 3 crystal Glass mainly covers all of your watches that are out there in the market. However, all of the glasses are great for the watch they come in at their respective price point, but you can certainly tell which one is superior. The use of this Crystal glass can certainly hype up or decrease the price and the value of the watch.