Apple Watch Hermés bands made in France

[Donoban]

Some people are referring to the AW being able to operate on its own on cellular connection. I think that might take a while. But I can certainly see the AW being able to do more without an iPhone nearby, but on Wifi. For example, the weather app should operate without an iPhone nearby (but with Wifi connection). Same for the stock app and probably quite a bit of others like Evernote etc.

Hopefully watchOS 2 brings this feature.

 

[Donoban]

I found the Apple Watch to literally be a miniature iPhone on my wrist. What I'd LIKE to see are some ideas like following:

• Biometric sensors

• Right now there's an app screen, just like your phone (except it's hard to actually navigate), but I don't need all those apps all the time. What if it was more contextual?

• Not really "Feature" related, but I couldn't see the screen at all in bright sunlight, which really defeats the purpose of a watch, but definitely a device where you need to navigate the screen.

• Health/Fitness -

I work in tech/user experience, and I don't know anyone who thinks the Apple Watch was a success.

Nice post!

Biometric sensors that alert your family, emergency services, alert people around what is happening all from a watch? Thats some sci-fi thinking bruh. I knew a guy at work that was in hospital, and every time he ummm... pleasured himself it would set off the alarm on the machine that was monitoring his heart. lol.

Contextual home screen, take a look at your desk right now, it's probably a mess but I bet you know exactly where everything is.

Health/Fitness - Many complaints around the accuracy but for me, you want a nice body then you need to focus 90% on diet and 10% exercise, but I can see the apple watch usefulness from setting personal bests, for me the timing features are brilliant, e.g., setup a 15 min outside run.

Success - What's your definition of success? Everyone wearing an apple watch? Selling 1 million units in China? Making 1 billion dollars? I'm sure your definition and apples is greatly different. How can a company increase growth? They can enhance existing products to a certain point or they create new product lines.

 

[matrix07]

Yes, I'm sure that's exactly how it went. Then Hermes put in an order for a few million, and they'll call them again in a week when they need to re up!

Who said about a million? Do you have even a shred of understanding of how luxury business work?

 

[matrix07]

When I looked on the Apple site the other day I'm pretty sure that I saw that the Hermés watch and bands will be sold in select Apple stores.

Do you have information that they will not be sold at Hermés stores?

 

[ninethirty]

Well for one, I was clearly joking. And second, yes, I most definitely do, but I'm in the mood for a laugh, so go on...

Who said about a million? Do you have even a shred of understanding of how luxury business work?

 

[matrix07]

Well for one, I was clearly joking. And second, yes, I most definitely do, but I'm in the mood for a laugh, so go on...

Oh..OK. It's hard to tell from the texts.

 

[broadbean]

Firstly, it's Hermès.

Secondly, if I were in the typical target market where I'd usually buy Hermès or similar fashion accessories, and I wanted an Apple Watch, why wouldn't I want this?

And thirdly, why would I care if one brand "cheapens" the other? Exactly how? Watch face aside, the leather strap is better than anything you'd buy with Apple "branding", and the Apple Watch is better than any smartwatch from the "Watch" manufacturers. Both brands can stand on their own merit - it's not like you're contemplating an Apple silk scarf or a Hermès smartphone...

Lastly, only thing that sucks is you can't upgrade an existing Apple Watch to one of these.

 

[SHNXX]

I just thought of something: if you had bought the Edition, are you still not able to buy the Hermes straps?
That seems rather.... unfair lol.

 

[Mac 128]

I just thought of something: if you had bought the Edition, are you still not able to buy the Hermes straps?
That seems rather.... unfair lol.

And therein lies the rub ... the people with the most money to spend, have to settle for cheap Apple brand leather and rubber bands -- there's not even a solid gold link bracelet option available. Even if they bought the Hermes watch for the bands, the stainless lugs wouldn't match the 18Kt gold case. While they could purchase a third party band kit with the screws to replace the band on their Edition lugs with the Hermes bands, they still won't get the Hermes watch face, nor for that matter can they get any other watch face than the standard offerings, aside from a custom color.

Can Edition owners even buy additional bands? Is there some private website they are given access to in order to buy additional bands, or are they screwed with the rest of the non-stainless watch owners?

The situation is sort of ridiculous.

 

[SHNXX]

And therein lies the rub ... the people with the most money to spend, have to settle for cheap Apple brand leather and rubber bands -- there's not even a solid gold link bracelet option available. Even if they bought the Hermes watch for the bands, the stainless lugs wouldn't match the 18Kt gold case. While they could purchase a third party band kit with the screws to replace the band on their Edition lugs with the Hermes bands, they still won't get the Hermes watch face, nor for that matter can they get any other watch face than the standard offerings, aside from a custom color.

Can Edition owners even buy additional bands? Is there some private website they are given access to in order to buy additional bands, or are they screwed with the rest of the non-stainless watch owners?

The situation is sort of ridiculous.

The entire Edition situation makes very little sense.
Granted, I'm not the target customer so maybe it makes perfect sense to the customer segment, but still things like Hermes watch face just ****ing befuddles me.
What genius came up with these ideas?

 

[bandrews]

To me, the Watch is a gadget, not a luxury item. While it's the best looking and best made smartwatch out there by far, it's still a smartwatch.There's still a certain "geekiness" to smartwatches that is going to be hard to overcome. I love my Watch and truly enjoy its features, but no matter which model I see (aluminum, SS or Edition), I still see a gadget and not an heirloom.

Hermes watches aren't heirlooms. Unlike Omega, Cartier or Rolex the company isn't respected for its watch movements - the watch is secondary to the leather. Rather than a timepiece company, Hermes is known for luxury leather goods from equestrian to handbags? My mum loves handbags and horses so by association also Hermes. She had no interest in the AW until I showed her the Hermes......

 

[Jvjlite]

Hermes  Watch wannabe:

And just one more!