I recall jewelry stores (not the super fancy ones, think more like resale) using tags that are essentially a slip of folded-over glued paper, perhaps 1/4” wide and 1” long (possibly various sizes) with a loop of string sticking out one end (hence the folding/gluing) that’s just long enough so it can be threaded through something (say a ring or a clasp) and then have the paper bit threaded through the loop, forming a nicely attached inventory and/or price tag. If they’re still made for commercial use, you could probably find them in large quantities for not much money, and they could serve to label the “holes” half of a strap while adding very little bulk.
Actually, now I’m curious to try this for some of my blues. I keep the large halves stored in the original boxes for positive ID, but it’d be nice to know when looking in the drawer.
Edit: oh, yeah, tons of these on Amazon, in all different sizes and brands, if you search for “paper tag with string”, or “jewelry tag”. One random example:
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500 Premium Writable Jewelry Tags with String by Ummeral, 0.91 x 0.55 inches - Paper Sale Tags for Anything You Need to Identify or Price
Divine Light sale tags with string are ideal for labeling party favors, using for gift tags, craft projects, identifying household items, or garage sale price tags ► Widely use - Great for jewelry or any small crafts! ► Enough space to write - The size of price tags is 0.91 x 0.55 inches, ...www.amazon.com
If you only put one in each drawer, it’s hugely inefficient space-wise, since the drawers are much taller than the straps are thick. If you out more than one in a drawer, then labeling gets more complicated, and you can’t keep them in rainbow/chromatic order - you can’t put two nearly identical blues in the same drawer, because not being to tell which is which was the problem we were trying to solve. So then you’re left putting, say, a blue and a yellow in each drawer, in which case you can tell them apart easily, but now your storage scheme is all chaotic.
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It was never released in the US. Not clear if it was special-released in China, or if Apple decided not to release at all (I think it might be the latter). It should definitely not go on the chart unless we can find an Apple press release or similar announcing that it was actually released (like, say, the Olympic bands, which got lots of press even though they were never widely available). After all, the original intent, and the thread title is, “Every Apple Watch band Apple released. Ever.”. Not officially released = not on the chart.
Might be interesting to have a separate chart for prototypes and such.
Wish I had so many bands that I forgot their names. I can still remember which is which though, so it’s not a problem for me... yet...
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From what I can tell, it seems like they were produced in the masses, but the project was cancelled last minute, and all those models in the factory just had to be tossed. From there, the workers in the factory just took them home in the masses and sold them online, which would be why it’s probably the most widely known (technically) unreleased band. Apple probably heard of this and tightened the security on their factories since then, which would be why we don’t see anymore cool bands like those.
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