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Jewel (Movement)

Or ‘jewel bearing’. It sounds like a lavish component, but a jewel in a modern wrist watch is a synthetic ruby or sapphire that acts as a bearing to mininmise wear-and-tear caused by friction between metal parts. They are typical purple and donut-shaped, and you can identity them easily from an open case back.