Let me explain SAXEM (or better yet, read Sarah
link Miller's description of it here,
link which is quite possibly the
link world's greatest ever verbal articulation/explanation of a watch brand's proprietary material). For the sake of this article, I'll give you a brief rundown. SAXEM is a material compound that gets its color from rare earth minerals and has a cubic (four-sided) form. Unlike sapphire crystal, which gets its color from metallic oxides and has a trigonal (three-sided) structure.