It's a story. Many local shops in my country Vietnam imported apple watch accessories from China. Here they are selling even discontinued bands in brandnew condition at very cheap price. i.e the utra violet band in original sealed box is sold at 16-17$. That sounds crazy huh?
Last week when I visited one of my fav band store. The boss there showed me some photos of this leather loop band and he said it would be released along with AW S6. He told me if I liked he would ordered some to the store and we can hand on them. Yesterday I received the loop from him, he gave me for free because I often helped him with his busines. And that's it.
The problem is Apple possibly knew it. There are many shop ordering these loops too but today they take them down the shelves. That store boss told me to keep and enjoy using it, but don't sell it because I might get trouble. I don't know if Apple reported the case to our local authority