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

  • One band only.

    Votes: 435 16.6%
  • 2/4

    Votes: 954 36.4%
  • 5/8

    Votes: 524 20.0%
  • 9/12

    Votes: 178 6.8%
  • 12/15

    Votes: 101 3.9%
  • 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
    2,621
Finished the first phase of my band rack. Left a good gap between rows for the channel inserts with name tags I’ll be adding. Black paper with white text. Will wait till I get in the few ebay bands I’m waiting for to start those. I also have another 10 or so not in the picture that are in my travel binder.

Time to fill in the empties...

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Finished the first phase of my band rack. Left a good gap between rows for the channel inserts with name tags I’ll be adding. Black paper with white text. Will wait till I get in the few ebay bands I’m waiting for to start those. I also have another 10 or so not in the picture that are in my travel binder.

Time to fill in the empties...

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looks great!!!
 
Black on the sport band and concrete/stone-ish on the Nike sport band
Yeah. I was surprised that they went with black lugs on the standard sport band instead, I was expecting them to go with red like previous versions.
Have any photos of these? Black lugs on an OEM pride make it look really cheap third party, especially if there isn't laser engraving.

Well Nike band ordered. It’s terrific.
I think I'll be ordering Nike as well. Waiting for the early adopters to tell me how the normal sport band version is.

Oooh, that just made me think, I would absolutely adore one that was done as graysCale - white on one edge, black on the other edge, then, what, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% gray across the middle.

Do another one that’s the same, but sepia toned.

Hell, do them for various colors. (Purple first, dammit.)
I have serious doubt Apple will do this split-tone for more bands in the future. The imperfections in the lines will make it extrememly noticable if there's less than 6 colors, and the woven nylons didn't sell well enough to keep in production, so my guess is this is a one-off thing for special editions only. Maybe if we're lucky, a 3-tone CYR 2021 sport band.

Finished the first phase of my band rack. Left a good gap between rows for the channel inserts with name tags I’ll be adding. Black paper with white text. Will wait till I get in the few ebay bands I’m waiting for to start those. I also have another 10 or so not in the picture that are in my travel binder.

Time to fill in the empties...

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Great visualization, and an awesome collection! How are they mounted to the wall? 3M?

Hahaha just updated the chart! Here you go!

Preview:
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@mikedop FYI, if you'd like to print it, wait for a few weeks. I would expect more summer bands coming in June, I remember that they also released the pride band earlier in previous years.
You're awesome, thanks! And yeah, I'll be waiting until Summer 2020 bands to print it. Maybe place it next to a wall mounted system like @toxtrepla, would look pretty cool. Especially with some IKEA lights or something.
 
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Here’s my solution, currently just throwing them in drawers. Warm colors, Nike, and leather up top, while Woven Nylons, Blues, and neutral colors reside on bottom. You can even see in the top left where I store all the M/L pieces.

Starting to outgrow it though, and I don’t have space for any more, so I’m trying to find some wall mounted solutions that aren’t $2/band

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Ah, found in the studio? Good thinking!
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In the HD photos, you can see they still have the "Assembled in China" text, so I believe they may still say "44mm" and "M/L & S/M"

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Great visualization, and an awesome collection! How are they mounted to the wall? 3M?


You're awesome, thanks! And yeah, I'll be waiting until Summer 2020 bands to print it. Maybe place it next to a wall mounted system like @toxtrepla, would look pretty cool. Especially with some IKEA lights or something.
Yeah command strips down the line. Makes micro adjustments easy along the way. I printed these out in blocks of 5. Funny you should mention lights. I’m going to add a floating shelf above the bands for sneakers, and install a downward facing LED strip underneath to illuminate.
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Very nicely done! Bonus points for the Sonos/Symfonisk lamp.
Thanks! I love those things. We use them as surround sound rears in the bedroom with a Sonos Beam and with hue bulbs. Sounds crazy good!
 
I am doing my update now. Did anyone here not get the new faces?

I’ve done the update on the watch but no new faces yet.
Edit: I restarted my watch and phone and now I have the striped one available directly on my watch but none of the others.
 
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I was never interested in any of the previous pride bands but I instantly ordered the Nike one. Looks amazing can’t wait to receive it !

A little tempted to get all the Pride bands. Including 2016, which will probably be the hardest.
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I am doing my update now. Did anyone here not get the new faces?


I’m scared that my S1 won’t get any new faces :(
 
Did anyone here not get the new faces?
I’ve done the update on the watch but no new faces yet.
I’m scared that my S1 won’t get any new faces :(
The new faces that are variants of the existing Pride faces (analog and digital) are available inside these faces - there's a configuration option for "Year" (2018, 2019, 2020 - digital has all three, analog only the latter two).

The other faces are additional color schemes for existing non-Pride faces (California, Gradient, some Nike faces, and apparently Numerals Mono and Numerals Duo) and apparently won't show up until iOS 13.5 is released (and installed).

I've got the new 2020-style Pride Digital and Pride Analog faces running on my S5 watch running watchOS 6.2.5.

Image (and info) stolen from the front-page article's thread (some folks are running the 13.5 beta). I'm gonna wear the heck out of the Rainbow California face once I get iOS 13.5.

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Not sure how I feel about the Pride sport band although the process sounds cool. Love the Nike one! Shipping dates already creeping further on that one.
 
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