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How many Apple Watch bands do you own? OEM only.

  • One band only.

    Votes: 436 16.5%
  • 2/4

    Votes: 960 36.4%
  • 5/8

    Votes: 524 19.9%
  • 9/12

    Votes: 177 6.7%
  • 12/15

    Votes: 104 3.9%
  • 16/20

    Votes: 77 2.9%
  • more than 20

    Votes: 221 8.4%
  • more than 50

    Votes: 66 2.5%
  • more than 100

    Votes: 31 1.2%
  • more than 200

    Votes: 24 0.9%
  • more than 250

    Votes: 4 0.2%
  • more than 300

    Votes: 4 0.2%
  • more than 400

    Votes: 1 0.0%
  • more than 500

    Votes: 1 0.0%
  • more than 600

    Votes: 8 0.3%

  • Total voters
    2,637
Cantaloupe solo
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Here’s my current Braided Solo Loop rankings ahead of the Fall 2022 release, pretty happy with the color edit here too. Electric Orange suffers from being the same color as the wood and the blues are getting lost in the sensor sauce but flame me for my ordination instead plz:
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Great, informative photo...

Did any of the BSL bands since Fall of 22, make it into your top 5 ranking? If so, which new colors broke int the top 5?
 
Great, informative photo...

Did any of the BSL bands since Fall of 22, make it into your top 5 ranking? If so, which new colors broke int the top 5?
Looks like I did one more ranking before it became too unwieldy a list to generate and I switched to rainbow order

After that point, some standouts: raspberry, bright orange, chartreuse, peony, aquamarine, tangerine

There’s too many colors to try and name a top five now I think. They’ve kind of hit everything now haven’t they? So it’s more about what mood I’m in
 
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Looks like I did one more ranking before it became too unwieldy a list to generate and I switched to rainbow order

After that point, some standouts: raspberry, bright orange, chartreuse, peony, aquamarine, tangerine

There’s too many colors to try and name a top five now I think. They’ve kind of hit everything now haven’t they? So it’s more about what mood I’m in
Thanks for your insights, they are very helpful. I just got my first BSL (Maise), and want to pick up a few more. I've added Starlight and Rainforest to my wishlist.

I also picked up my first Solo Loop (Clover). I will want to get a couple more of those. Do you have a top-3 or top-5 list I can check out?
 
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Thanks for your insights, they are very helpful. I just got my first BSL (Maise), and want to pick up a few more. I've added Starlight and Rainforest to my wishlist.

I also picked up my Solo Loop (Clover). I will want to get a couple more of those. Do you have a top-3 or top-5 list I can check out?
Solo loop exclusive faves:
Pink
Star Fruit
Ultramarine

For non-exclusives I love these three oranges: kumquat, marigold, cantaloupe.

The first year of silicone solo loops, it feels like Apple sandbagged the sport band counterparts. They weren’t gooey soft to the touch and didn’t have as much color, so cantaloupe and kumquat hit harder in silicone.

But then as soon as series 7 hit, the sport band counterparts took their rightful place as the stronger versions of colors with all those yummy forever chemicals. Something I wish I had known at the time was going to shift after series 6.

Sunglow is great but I think Sunshine sport band is a little better. And the new Peony is lovely but I think forced to choose I go with the less magenta option of Pink.

I haven’t seen Periwinkle goo yet and as there’s only one red solo loop (same color as red gen 4 sport band) it’s worth getting.
 
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I really wish I could find a braided solo loop in the clay color to go with the natural titanium apple watch. One day!
 
Solo loop exclusive faves:
Pink
Star Fruit
Ultramarine

For non-exclusives I love these three oranges: kumquat, marigold, cantaloupe.

The first year of silicone solo loops, it feels like Apple sandbagged the sport band counterparts. They weren’t gooey soft to the touch and didn’t have as much color, so cantaloupe and kumquat hit harder in silicone.

But then as soon as series 7 hit, the sport band counterparts took their rightful place as the stronger versions of colors with all those yummy forever chemicals. Something I wish I had known at the time was going to shift after series 6.

Sunglow is great but I think Sunshine sport band is a little better. And the new Peony is lovely but I think forced to choose I go with the less magenta option of Pink.

I haven’t seen Periwinkle goo yet and as there’s only one red solo loop (same color as red gen 4 sport band) it’s worth getting.
Wow, thanks for all this history about the Solo Loops. Being new to the solo bands, this is soooo helpful. It sounds like they made nice improvements for both the Solo and Braided bands starting with the Series 7.

I think I’ll put the Ultramarine on my wishlist. I did do the Woot mystery purchase this week for both the braided, and solo loops. I’ll see that colors i get, and maybe get more after that. Maybe a sunglow or a red.
 
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