Woah, yeah, I like that look a lot. Let’s hope it matches me as well.
I found a Barely Rose locally for $15. A little on the feminine side, but I kinda like It. Here’s a comparison with Pure Platinum / White.
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Woah, yeah, I like that look a lot. Let’s hope it matches me as well.
I found a Barely Rose locally for $15. A little on the feminine side, but I kinda like It. Here’s a comparison with Pure Platinum / White.
It's a lovely color - if it appeals to you, run with it. Nothing wrong with getting in touch with your feminine side. So many men worry so much that anything not 100% black-leather-and-nails will make them less of a man. Fun fact, the notion of "blue for boys / pink for girls" is surprisingly recent (like the past 100 years), and when the notion was first put forth, it was reversed, with blue being considered demure and feminine, and pink obviously being a strong man's color.
Looking at that picture makes me want a Barely Rose Nike band...
LOL
I really wanted Mint, and went through a protracted process to get it through Chargerstore - it was missed from a shipment, but they made it right and I have no issues with any of that as mistakes happen and so long as they are fixed all is good.
Now that I have it, whenever I wear it I can't help thinking it looks like that green alternative to Blutack.
Is mint rare? Bought it for $15 on eBay NIB impulsively almost a year ago, didn’t really think much of it.
My wife is wearing hers right now as we sit in our home office next to one another working in a slightly relaxed NZ lockdown where we aren't allowed to go to work as we don't need to to do our jobs. I love it, and as she has the light pink fade Hermes face that rests to black with pink neutrals and hands with the AOD it looks especially awesome.
I love it, but I admit I'm not sure I'm quite in touch enough with my feminine side for what is the most Barbie band I think has ever been officially released.
I’d been eyeing that color on eBay/Mercari for a bit but didn’t have the extra money. A bit jealous!
Pretty rare I think as it was one of the first colours that came out after the original bright, primary colour bands when there were obviously far fewer potential buyers. I really just wanted another green. I mean I had Green, Spearmint, Pine and Khaki by then, but there are still gaps for a few more shades.
Since then I have only been able to add Cactus (which I'm wearing now actually, but has a heavy hint of blue). I should get Marine Green also I guess, but it's a single season band so likely rare. My wife has Beryl, but it's a bit too pale to really grab me so I haven't bothered. Time is running out to get it new, but I don't know that I care enough to buy it.
Beryl is already discontinued IIRC. Spearmint and Marine Green are high up on my wishlist. Love the brighter colors, they contrast so well on the Gray Aluminum.
I recently got a new iPad cover and it makes a fancy backdrop, doesn’t it haha? I also feel like it provides a little bit of reference as recognizable Apple “charcoal”
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Can you tell I have a lot of leftover early adopter self-consciousness before they showed up on everyone’s wrist? 😊
Ah, I figured it was a case or cover of some sort for a MacBook or iPad. Pretty cool.
$15, damn! All I get locally are blacks whites and pink sands. I’d love a barely rose one day, nice and light.
Beryl is still available in the NZ Apple Store, but not as an option with e new Watch, so I can get it still if I want to.
Spearmint is awesome, I really like it. I'm not sure I've seen Marine - in fact does anyone have Marine Green and Nike Teal Tint who could do a compare photo?
That’s awesome
I quite like Mint, but the last few times I’ve warn it has been 1/2 Mint and 1/2 Light Pink, which it amuses me to dub, “MintBerry Crunch” (from South Park). Lately when I want light green I keep going with Spearmint. Hmm, Dragonfruit and Spearmint, I wonder how that’d work?
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Okay, now I really need to find a Barely Rose.
That's a really nice combination. Wish I could justify buying the titaniumHey, Apple introduced Spruce Fog nike loop along with AW series 4. That loop looks nothing special but it goes well with evey watch colors. The local shop near my house still has some on stock
The spruce fog really looked great with natural titanium
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Those are great!
I wonder which looks better on a dark watch (Space Grey), PP/white or Black/Grey?
I saw these posts while I was working and didn’t have time to reply then.
When I said “busy” I was more thinking of the car thing than the watch. Gold isn’t my thing personally, but I tend to think shiny gold or silver is more traditional for watches, which I why I said I’ll likely go for a Hermes is SS. I said it was classier, and I think it is, but that’s subjective and other people won‘t agree. I think traditional is probably something more people would agree with.
Personally I’m not sure about some bands on black - dark blues and brown leather I’ll have to see IRL before I can make a call. I think brown leather looks fantastic with silver or gold SS though, as does black leather, so I think when I want to go for the traditionally smart look, which is when a Hermes AOD face really excels, I’d rather the SS to do that with. A Hermes SS with Fauve Barenia is classic, and switching to a Noir stays classic but is a very different look. An SBSS Hermes with the Noir band is also very slick and elegant, but not so traditional / classic. Put a Fauve band on that watch though (even with black hardware) and I’m not so sure I even like it.
When the S5 was announced we still only had Alu available here in NZ as we still didn’t have an eSIM provider. At first I held out in the hope we’d get the LTE models soon (though I caved and bought a silver Nike after seeing a couple of S5s with AOD at work) and was planning to get a Ti if/when they came available here. When we did get LTE in mid-December we only got SS - no Edition or Hermes is available here. I went with SS in that case and I like it sooooo much better than the Alu that was all I could get for S3, S4 and my short-lived Nike S5. My S0 was SS, but the Watch was slow to take off here and there weren’t many around until S3, by which time we couldn’t buy SS, so the vast majority of Watches I see are Alu. More than that most men have SG on a black Sport Band and most women seem to have Rose Gold Alu on a pink or white Sport Band. Even silver Alu is relatively uncommon from what I see around.
With no Apple stores and relatively few Watches in the wild as well as the unimaginative owners I genuinely have hardly ever seen a SG with anything other than a black band (one crazy adventurous guy I work with has a Nike Anthracite!), and (sorry to the SG owners) I don’t like the finish. It might look way better with a coloured band, but I haven’t seen it to know. I also don’t like the look of Silver Alu now I’m back with SS. I sold my Nike, but my wife has an Alu S4 she still uses for sleep tracking and the dullness of it is just so meh to my eye.
The point of all that is to say that not having seen it IRL I’d now be wary of Ti in either colour in case it is too satin and therefore too much like the Alu. That and that it may not match the SS lugs well enough even in the lighter variant for me to wear my Hermes or classic buckle leather bands with it.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen SBSS for real either, but for me shiny is the black that I think I‘ll like best - and I’ll see it tomorrow. I’m excited, but also slightly concerned I won’t like it. I can always return it if it really doesn’t work for me.
Wow, that was more than I thought I was going to write.
Space Grey with some different color combos:
Space Gray: best band combinations?
I have Space Grey watches right now (Series 4 & Nike Series 3). Mine came with the Black Sport band & Black Nike Sport band. I think these go pretty well with it. The only other band I've bought is the Ultraviolet Sport Band. I love it, purple is my favorite color in general anyway. I get...
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but yeh, it's better to see in person.
Beautiful collection! And welcome here!Hello, I'm newbie here, I love collect bands but I only love the latest collection. I often sell the previous bands to buy new ones
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I used to have the S3 Ceramic. So you can see it here paired with the Mist Blue.
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I do have both. SB & SL so I will make the pics later today.
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I agree with just about everything here. Although we always had all models available round here, I also rarely see other models being worn than the Alu Watches. Men almost exclusively space gray (with a black sport band), women I‘d say half gold and half silver. I don‘t see myself getting an Alu Watch ever, the finish is just too dull and lifeless to my eyes. I had only silver SS Watches and couldn‘t necessarily imagine something even classier would come along, but the natural Ti is just that. Both Ti finishes are much shinier IRL than the equivalent Alu finishes. And also subtly brushed. I hope with the S6 the Titanium Editions will be available a) at all still (maybe it was just an experiment and I’m not sure they sell enough of them) and b) come to NZ so you can see for yourself. I was also a little worried abouth the straps with SS lugs, but they blend in just fine.
FYI folks -- posted to the OEM deals thread already, but for the Canadians here:
TheSource.ca: Sport Bands and Loops (too many to list, Apple & Nike, several rare discontinued ones, and most have minor discounts too!) [edit: looks like the search results page might be bugging and not showing the discounts. individual product pages do reflect the discounts correctly, where applicable.)
Thanks to the influence of you enablers here.. I pulled the trigger on Spruce Fog loop, just in case Apple doesn't do one like my "Fog Sport Loop" photoshop-creation above!
TheSource.ca: Sport Bands and Loops (too many to list, Apple & Nike, several rare discontinued ones, and most have minor discounts too!) [edit: looks like the search results page might be bugging and not showing the discounts. individual product pages do reflect the discounts correctly, where applicable.)
Thanks to the influence of you enablers here.. I pulled the trigger on Spruce Fog loop, just in case Apple doesn't do one like my "Fog Sport Loop" photoshop-creation above!
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In the US, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about the source in terms of good deals on bands. Saw someone got an UV from them for some stupid price like $35. I’m not jealous at all.....
Anywho, guess who just bought 3 slightly different blues and is now out of money?
....yeah..
Hope you enjoy your spruce fog! Would love to have the SB but I cant find one that isn’t expensive.
Which blues? And I think I will, you & thousand convinced me. To my eyes, this looks like it might rank in the top 10 bands for "worst hero pic" of all time. I never even bothered to look for real world photos of it because I was so completely turned off by Apple's shots.
Oooh, those sport bands look nice. Aaaaand now I have to get them.
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Ocean, Denim & Horizon, bought Horizon a day ago and Ocean today. They’re pretty similar per your photos, but I couldn’t pass up the deals. Horizon was $15 + shipping, still NIB. Ocean was open box for $35, but I don’t recall the last time I even saw one listed, so I bought it just to have it.
Denim was a nice color to have, but I sold it a while back. Found it yesterday for $15, same as Horizon. NIB. Looks a bit similar to my Royal Blue, but I’ll manage. I’ve probably got about 6-7 blues now.
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