Products
Swiss Jewel presents a wide range of product categories to meet the needs of Optical and Mechanical markets from R&D to full scale volume production. We specialize in the development of custom components. Stock includes Sapphire Windows, Jewel Bearings, Sapphire Rods, Sapphire Tubes, Ruby Balls, Ring Jewels, Ruby Bearings, Orifice Jewels and more available for immediate delivery.
Precision, quality, competitive pricing coupled with a commitment to on time delivery runs through our breadth of services and offerings.
- Sapphire Windows
We have a wide range of Sapphire Windows in stock and ready to ship. Click here to view our stock of Circular, Rectangle and Square Windows.
- Balls & Hemispheres
Precision balls - from Dia. 0.15mm in Sapphire, Ruby, Ceramic, Glass, Fused Silica and more.
- Jewel Bearings
Synthetic sapphire and ruby are recognized universally as the ideal material for instruments.
- Sapphire Orifice Jewels
Sapphire is an excellent orifice material because of its resistance to wear, heat and corrosion, as well as its low friction.
- Rods & Tubes
Stock includes several sizes of stock Sapphire Rods and Tubes
- Pivots & Shafts
Pivots with radiused conical ends are generally used with vee jewels. Rounded or semi-spherical pivots are used with cup jewels and flat endstones.
- AR Coated Ball Lenses
To minimize the loss of the light’s performance, ball lenses will be AR coated.
- Aperture Wafers
Aperture Wafers are precision controlled orifices where the ID Length is controlled very tightly.
- Blades
Sapphire's hardness and excellent surface finish provide a superior surface for precision blades.
- Ball & Seat
Sapphire Ball Seats are used as check valves in pumps.
- Nozzles
Using sapphire nozzles will provide longer life than using metal and we can hold tighter tolerances due to sapphires acceptance of higher surface finish.
- Washers
Sapphire Washers serve as excellent insulators due to Sapphire's inertness.
- Stylus
Sapphire Styli are small pin-point components where the end radius is controlled to as small as .001".
- Saddle Pin
A Sapphire Saddle Pin is a rod with a concave groove in the middle.