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Agree or Disagree: Watch 3 Red Crown is a Hideous Monstrosity?
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I have to agree....I just can't see any other reason why they would do something like this.
Actually I think all black with red dot would be supreme. I'll pay extra for that.
Believe me you will considering you will get slapped with $10 month for the wireless service. I wonder if you can just get a sharpie to black out that ugly dot...
With all the people walking around wearing the most electric, vibrant shoe color combos on the planet, I am surprised that anyone would really care about a single, red dot on a phone.
$10 a month is a crime but I so dig all black with red dot. So chic.
I wish you could buy stainless steel non LTE watch. I have no need for the LTE feature. I think I'll look for a used S2.
But there will be some posers who take red nail polish and paint their crowns, count on it.
I use these Watch Dots https://shop.watchdots.com/collections/frontpage/products/watchdots-black
Very durable but maybe a tiny bit smaller than the original dot. So you have to place it very carefully on top of the red dot. Maybe a hair line of red if any stays visible. The tiniest misalignment could lead to uneven red remains. TIP: Moisten the crown a little with a dish soap water mix or windex water mix before applying the dot. You then can still move it around a little but you have to wait up to a day for it to dry so it holds tight.
Very durable but maybe a tiny bit smaller than the original dot. So you have to place it very carefully on top of the red dot. Maybe a hair line of red if any stays visible. The tiniest misalignment could lead to uneven red remains. TIP: Moisten the crown a little with a dish soap water mix or windex water mix before applying the dot. You then can still move it around a little but you have to wait up to a day for it to dry so it holds tight.
I have a series 0 ss. All this talk about the hideous red dot made me look at my watch again (and note I wear this *every* day). Wow it has a black dot. I doubt I have noticed it since the day it first arrived. I may not be crazy about the red dot but my guess is, based on my past experience, I'll never notice it ;-)
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I've been wondering if I was alone. I could have sworn mine was all stainless. But noooo, I have a black dot. What's funny was that I was about to throw in with the red dot hate. Guess I'm setting that alarm.
I think you're completely correct here. I think Apple did this not just to be more stylish or adding a cosmetic feature. But they did this to separate it away from the first generation Watch and Series 2. It also make it much easier to identify which model someone has as well.
I think that actually proves what a bad idea the red dot is. I also didn’t realise my crown had a black dot and yet the first thing I noticed about the series 3 was the red dot (which inspired instant revulsion).
Black (or steel, or white) is a neutral colour, whereas red is probably the least neutral colour there is. They couldn’t have picked a worse colour.
I just don’t like red as a color. Not mine.With this they just force me to buy this color, which I personally find disturbing giving a big part of this product was about customization with bands. It limits the possible color combinations, since not everything goes well with red.
True. I also think that I just don't see the dot when I'm wearing the watch. So, I'm pretty sure I'm going to be able to live with the red dot. It may, however, drive red dot haters in my vicinity crazy ;-)