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

  • One band only.

    Votes: 435 16.6%
  • 2/4

    Votes: 950 36.3%
  • 5/8

    Votes: 525 20.1%
  • 9/12

    Votes: 177 6.8%
  • 12/15

    Votes: 100 3.8%
  • 16/20

    Votes: 76 2.9%
  • more than 20

    Votes: 217 8.3%
  • more than 50

    Votes: 66 2.5%
  • more than 100

    Votes: 29 1.1%
  • 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
    2,616
here are a few of the Turquoise in different lights
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^^ Beryl in the middle and Turquoise to the left and right of it


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Here's the difference between Beryl and Turquoise in different lights:
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Wow it is pretty pale but I dig it! And shoot I guess I really like beryl too? More? No idea. Beryl seems like a whiter milky-er Turquoise.
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Could’ve been. I think it was like $17 or so. Really want the color after seeing it here a dozen times.
Mine was sitting in my Poshmark likes since the end of last month for $20 but grabbed it for discounted shipping and $16 today. Figured it was the least I could do after bothering the lady with questions about it. She dropped it in the mail for me like within 30 minutes of me buying it. I’m excited now after seeing @oarx’s pics.
 
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here are a few of the Turquoise in different lights
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^^ Beryl in the middle and Turquoise to the left and right of it


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Here's the difference between Beryl and Turquoise in different lights:
(the buckle strap is Beryl and the strap with the holes is Turquoise)
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Thanks! Those are great shots. I didn’t realize how similar turquoise and beryl are! I can probably get beryl much easier than turquoise right now. Something to think about.
 
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Anyone owning both Red 1st and 2nd generation able to post their boxes? Trying to see if they are different since I’m after 2nd generation but not all listings include a picture of the back of the box so checking the SKU is impossible.

Thanks in advance! :)
 
Lighting really makes an impact, but it sits so nicely between the blue and green lines it makes it stand on its own strongly. It only looks green when its not next to green bands.
I think the opposite - putting it next to green emphasises the blue and vice versa. Same with the incredibly similar Turquoise and Beryl. I thin I posted before my wife has both and also a jacket and a dress that are beautiful matches with Turquoise and Beryl, but if she swaps the band / clothing combo they just look wrong.

I think putting an in between color with one of the colors it’s between emphasises the difference, not the similarity.

Anyway it’s not a fave of mine, but I seem to struggle to spot when to wear it. My wife has suggested it twice for a shirt that it’s been perfect for and that I haven’t spotted. Maybe I don’t understand it yet.
Not that I’m not loving the convo fodder but this magnetic loop is giving me major plato’s allegory of the cave vibes.

OK, I usually keep up with your (always amusing) analogies, but I had to Google that one.

I’m going to come right out and say I don’t think that is genuine. I could be wrong, and I hear the comments on the detail of the contrast edge and the printing, and I also realise Apple is diversifying production after the wake-up of China shutting down and Vietnam is a (the?) country they are moving into.

My scepticism is simply that that is an un-Apple closure mechanism to my eye. Anybody over the age of five could design that as a simple way to close a watch strap and I think Apple would have ruled it out in the early days. Of course maybe the trick is in the heavy ridging and I’m wrong. I expect we’ll find out if I am soon - and we’ll never be able to say 100% I am right :D
Flat Silver compared to Pure Platinum, in case anybody is wondering.

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Do you (or anyone) have Fog to compare with Flat Silver, just to give me an idea how light the grey is. Right now I have Fog on my SBSS for the first time and it’s a bit light for my taste against the black (though I like it with SS). I suspect Flat Silver is slightly lighter still.
 
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Pretty good deal on the Sport Loop Band (44mm) - Nectarine


I bought that one, same deal from amazon and absolutely love the color but I just returned it. The Nectarine Loop was shorter than all my other Loops and seemed short on my wrist and just decided to return it even though I did love the color! I like to be 100% happy and the length just bothered too much to justify keeping it.
 
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$100,000 starting bid

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My collection has grown so big that I physically do not have a desk big enough to lay them out on. Would love to get a wall mounted system, but they get expensive if you don’t already have a 3D printer.

brb, gonna go tape all my bands to the wall.
I did have some time tonight to print out that modem you sent me last night. I’m on the fence on if I prefer this style or the hanging style for the rack I plan on building.

Might be asking some of the regulars here for input. Going to build a rack of 10 slots of each style to mount and compare. More to come.

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I did have some time tonight to print out that modem you sent me last night. I’m on the fence on if I prefer this style or the hanging style for the rack I plan on building.

Might be asking some of the regulars here for input. Going to build a rack of 10 slots of each style to mount and compare. More to come.

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Those look awesome! I love the sort of 3D aspect of it, popping off the wall. If you did them in sections of 2, you would bypass the entire “slide 3 bands off to get to 1” problem.

As to if you should replace the rack design with this, I’d say it depends on how the final product looks. I have a section of wall next to by bedroom door that would be the perfect size to stick some bands on, which can be done either way.
 
Those look awesome! I love the sort of 3D aspect of it, popping off the wall. If you did them in sections of 2, you would bypass the entire “slide 3 bands off to get to 1” problem.

As to if you should replace the rack design with this, I’d say it depends on how the final product looks. I have a section of wall next to by bedroom door that would be the perfect size to stick some bands on, which can be done either way.
I’ll take a video of how they snap into place tomorrow. I altered the tolerances in the edge channels so you actually don’t need to slide the bands off at all. The middle black clasp on the lug “pops” into place and the pressure keeps it really stable. You can put it into place head on from any point in the line. Potentially you could do massive runs this way.
 
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I’ll take a video of how they snap into place tomorrow. I altered the tolerances in the edge channels so you actually don’t need to slide the bands off at all. The middle black clasp on the lug “pops” into place and the pressure keeps it really stable. You can put it into place head on from any point in the line. Potentially you could do massive runs this way.

Awesome!

I was thinking it’s be cool to make one of these that’s 5 bands long, stick the original 5 from release on there (white, pink, blue, green, and black) then just have normal racks for the rest of your bands under there.
 
Does anyone have both azure and lilac sport bands and could photograph them together? I’ve been looking for lilac for a while with no luck and azure looks similar but not sure if it’s similar enough to be a stand in.

ChargerStore finally got a medium cape cod leather loop in again and I bit the bullet. More than I wanted to pay but I justified it to myself by saying it was less than it retailed for, that I’ve been waiting forever for anyone to have it again and now I can sell the large one that’s too big for me. I may have also bought a charcoal gray leather loop and several bands for the rose AW I’m giving my girlfriend as a surprise birthday present. I may be sinking all the money I’m not spending on transit and eating out on bands... Does anyone know if the 38mm midnight blue band ever came with a rose gold pin?
 
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Does anyone have both azure and lilac sport bands and could photograph them together? I’ve been looking for lilac for a while with no luck and azure looks similar but not sure if it’s similar enough to be a stand in.

ChargerStore finally got a medium cape cod leather loop in again and I bit the bullet. More than I wanted to pay but I justified it to myself by saying it was less than it retailed for, that I’ve been waiting forever for anyone to have it again and now I can sell the large one that’s too big for me. I may have also bought a charcoal gray leather loop and several bands for the rose AW I’m giving my girlfriend as a surprise birthday present. I may be sinking all the money I’m not spending on transit and eating out on bands... Does anyone know if the 38mm midnight blue band ever came with a rose gold pin?

I have both. I will take a photo tomorrow in the daylight. Unless someone beats to it.
 
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Does anyone have both azure and lilac sport bands and could photograph them together? I’ve been looking for lilac for a while with no luck and azure looks similar but not sure if it’s similar enough to be a stand in.

ChargerStore finally got a medium cape cod leather loop in again and I bit the bullet. More than I wanted to pay but I justified it to myself by saying it was less than it retailed for, that I’ve been waiting forever for anyone to have it again and now I can sell the large one that’s too big for me. I may have also bought a charcoal gray leather loop and several bands for the rose AW I’m giving my girlfriend as a surprise birthday present. I may be sinking all the money I’m not spending on transit and eating out on bands... Does anyone know if the 38mm midnight blue band ever came with a rose gold pin?

Yes, pretty sure Midnight Blue came in rose gold. Good luck finding one without buying a rose gold S1 or S2 though.
 
Does anyone have both azure and lilac sport bands and could photograph them together? I’ve been looking for lilac for a while with no luck and azure looks similar but not sure if it’s similar enough to be a stand in.

ChargerStore finally got a medium cape cod leather loop in again and I bit the bullet. More than I wanted to pay but I justified it to myself by saying it was less than it retailed for, that I’ve been waiting forever for anyone to have it again and now I can sell the large one that’s too big for me. I may have also bought a charcoal gray leather loop and several bands for the rose AW I’m giving my girlfriend as a surprise birthday present. I may be sinking all the money I’m not spending on transit and eating out on bands... Does anyone know if the 38mm midnight blue band ever came with a rose gold pin?
 

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I did have some time tonight to print out that modem you sent me last night. I’m on the fence on if I prefer this style or the hanging style for the rack I plan on building.

Might be asking some of the regulars here for input. Going to build a rack of 10 slots of each style to mount and compare. More to come.

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I’ll be honest, I wasn’t paying much attention to the talk about printing racks, but I like that. My wife saw it and said she could do with something like that to help her Hermes double-tours get / keep their shape.
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Wow, I thought Lilac and Azure were way more different than that. I mean they aren’t hard to tell apart without seeing both, but that’s more like I’d expect Cornflower and Azure to look (not that I’ve compared those, though my wife has both)/
 
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Do you (or anyone) have Fog to compare with Flat Silver, just to give me an idea how light the grey is. Right now I have Fog on my SBSS for the first time and it’s a bit light for my taste against the black (though I like it with SS). I suspect Flat Silver is slightly lighter still.

These are very similar indeed. Fog is a little bit warmer.

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Wow, I thought Lilac and Azure were way more different than that. I mean they aren’t hard to tell apart without seeing both, but that’s more like I’d expect Cornflower and Azure to look (not that I’ve compared those, though my wife has both)/

Nice gradient of the lighter subdued blues (bottom to top: Lilac, Cornflower, Azure):

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My collection has grown so big that I physically do not have a desk big enough to lay them out on. Would love to get a wall mounted system, but they get expensive if you don’t already have a 3D printer.

brb, gonna go tape all my bands to the wall.

Or you could do something like this ...

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These are very similar indeed. Fog is a little bit warmer.

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Nice gradient of the lighter subdued blues (bottom to top: Lilac, Cornflower, Azure):

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Or you could do something like this ...

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Thanks for those. The blues are much more how I pictured them when Cornflower is in between.

I actually like Flat Silver more than I thought I would, but as a silver Watch match Rather than black - pretty much as Apple marketed it in fact. I’m not sure about Flat Silver / Volt however.

Is that the same phot of your collection you posts once before when there was a discussion about the agents you use? If so, how many more do you have now?
 
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