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

  • One band only.

    Votes: 435 16.6%
  • 2/4

    Votes: 956 36.4%
  • 5/8

    Votes: 524 20.0%
  • 9/12

    Votes: 178 6.8%
  • 12/15

    Votes: 101 3.8%
  • 16/20

    Votes: 76 2.9%
  • more than 20

    Votes: 219 8.3%
  • more than 50

    Votes: 65 2.5%
  • more than 100

    Votes: 30 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
    2,625
So here are my shots of all 4 new bands. It’s dark so these are straight from the camera under LED down lights.

Surf Blue, Royal Blue, Denim, Alaskan Blue, Blue Conalt, Blue Horizon with Line Blue over. IRL it’s slightly less purple I’d say
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Beryl, Turquoise, Teal Tint / Tropical Twist with Seafoam over. I agree with @toxtrepla it’s lovely, bright and makes even Beryl look drab.

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This pic isn’t good in the lighting. Fog, Dark Olive and Cargo Khaki / Black with Coastal Grey over. My wife likes it, but it’s a bit brown for me.
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Bit C to follow. Someone at the door
Awesome thank you for posting these. Coastal looks the most intriguing to me.
 
Can you compare the Seafood with the Sky Blue please?
Sorry, my Sky Blue hasn’t arrived yet, will do when it gets here.

Lastly Clementine, Hermes Orange, Papaya and Vitamin C over. It’s a nice, bright orange.
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I’ll redo these tomorrow in daylight, so don’t depend too much on these as reference shots.
 
Ok, my two new bands came in as well. They‘re nice, but I‘m undecided if they‘re keepers. Vitamin C is best described as „Neon Orange“, very bright and intense. It even makes Papaya look a little subdued. Linen is really pretty, but also pretty close to Delft, just a little lighter and with a hint of purple in it.

Left to right: Papaya, Vitamin, Hermes and Delft, Linen, Alaska.

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I got the Coastal Grey in. I really like it, but it should be called Coastal Brown really as that's the more dominant colour in it. It's one of those colours like Cactus that changes quite a lot depending on the light, so here are a few pics...
 

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And again - 0 greens, 0 purples. Apple has a weird priorities in colors... "Here is the 28-th shade of blue, and purple still doesn't exist".
While I totally agree with you, I expect blues are the best sellers. And arguably Seafoam is green. But a proper green would be nice.
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I got the Coastal Grey in. I really like it, but it should be called Coastal Brown really as that's the more dominant colour in it. It's one of those colours like Cactus that changes quite a lot depending on the light, so here are a few pics...
I’ll have to have a proper look at my wife’s in daylight. I like that more in these pics than IRL this evening.
 
Received my Pride sports band today and it won't clip in, exactly like the blue I had to return. That is now 2 new bands so far. Never had this issue before :mad:
Same. Pride Edition SB. Very annoying. It wouldn’t click in either the top or the bottom lug. And I don’t live near an Apple Store.
 
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Same. Pride Edition SB. Very annoying. It wouldn’t click in either the top or the bottom lug. And I don’t live near an Apple Store.
Received my Pride sports band today and it won't clip in, exactly like the blue I had to return. That is now 2 new bands so far. Never had this issue before :mad:

Try the following - slide the band to the position in the watch where is should be, and several times with different force press the release button on the watch body. It could "unstuck" the band mechanics and it will always from now on work properly
 
Try the following - slide the band to the position in the watch where is should be, and several times with different force press the release button on the watch body. It could "unstuck" the band mechanics and it will always from now on work properly
Thanks but no dice. Back to Apple it goes. Hope the replacement is from a different batch.
 
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Same thing happened to me with two of them. I ended up just getting a refund.
Received my Pride sports band today and it won't clip in, exactly like the blue I had to return. That is now 2 new bands so far. Never had this issue before :mad:
Same. Pride Edition SB. Very annoying. It wouldn’t click in either the top or the bottom lug. And I don’t live near an Apple Store.
So the issue I had was that it wasnt working with my S2 where it would just slide through, but my S4 was just fine, it was the same thing with two bands that I purchased off the bat. So I contacted apple and they sent me two replacements upfront. Same thing happened with the replacements too, but luckily I was able to piece together two whole working sets between the four bands that worked on both of my watches. I just need to print the label and ship all the non working parts back to them now.
 
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So I contacted apple and they sent me two replacements upfront.
If they do that versus having you to return them first before sending out replacements which I assume is normal protocol, does that mean that they know this is a pretty common problem? Lucky you, if they did that you wouldn't have been able to piece together a working set from two sets of bands. You'd just end up with another non-working set.
 
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So here are my shots of all 4 new bands. It’s dark so these are straight from the camera under LED down lights.

Surf Blue, Royal Blue, Denim, Alaskan Blue, Blue Cobalt, Blue Horizon with Linen Blue over. IRL it’s slightly less purple I’d say.
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This is the first time that I’ve been (very) tempted to get surf blue despite my having royal already as an “adjacent” tone.
 
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Ok, my two new bands came in as well. They‘re nice, but I‘m undecided if they‘re keepers. Vitamin C is best described as „Neon Orange“, very bright and intense. It even makes Papaya look a little subdued. Linen is really pretty, but also pretty close to Delft, just a little lighter and with a hint of purple in it.

Left to right: Papaya, Vitamin, Hermes and Delft, Linen, Alaska.

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Vitamin C looks gorgeous. So does Linen Blue. I can’t believe I’m saying this because I love delft but I think Linen is just a bit nicer. I like the purple tones.
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This is the first time that I’ve been (very) tempted to get surf blue despite my having royal already as an “adjacent” tone.
It’s so vibrant. I say do it. Haha
 
If they do that versus having you to return them first before sending out replacements which I assume is normal protocol, does that mean that they know this is a pretty common problem? Lucky you, if they did that you wouldn't have been able to piece together a working set from two sets of bands. You'd just end up with another non-working set.
I was shocked when i got home yesterday, my emails made it seem like they were shipping me an empty box to return the bands and then they would send me the replacements when they got them, thats how it seemed when i was on the phone too. What was weird was that they didnt ask for any cc information, which is required when they do an express replacement like that. i guess if the card is still on file they could charge that if they didnt get the defective bands...
 
Vitamin C looks gorgeous. So does Linen Blue. I can’t believe I’m saying this because I love delft but I think Linen is just a bit nicer. I like the purple tones.

I can‘t believe it either, but a few hours later I tend to agree. There is no way I‘ll send Linen back.
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Ceramic white + Vitamin C

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Now this looks super fresh. Great combination!
 
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It’s so vibrant. I say do it. Haha
Alright alright, I finally gave in. Surf Blue SB ordered. I guess this means the commission cheque needs to be split for @PurBle & @the future - usually the full commission goes to @athousandbands so Apple has to do some tweaks in the system!

Coastal arriving later this morning, should be able to get some shots with SBSS if anyone is interested.
 
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