Many people have asked throughout the past 25 years whether I could make the CQR Amulet any smaller, and I said “No”, because up to now — this very week — I couldn’t.
Then along came a miracle crystal that could contain the fatness of the already tiny miniaturized electronic parts inside the ammy, thanks to a friend of Barbara’s, who hand-crafts watch crystals for famous watchmakers like Piaget, whose watches go for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and she sometimes makes crystals for our ammies.
I needed a high-domed crystal that would fit into my gold bezel, so I sent her a raw radio so she could personally test the fit. Continue reading