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

  • One band only.

    Votes: 431 16.7%
  • 2/4

    Votes: 938 36.2%
  • 5/8

    Votes: 521 20.1%
  • 9/12

    Votes: 176 6.8%
  • 12/15

    Votes: 99 3.8%
  • 16/20

    Votes: 73 2.8%
  • more than 20

    Votes: 215 8.3%
  • more than 50

    Votes: 66 2.6%
  • more than 100

    Votes: 28 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
    2,588

thadoggfather

macrumors P6
Oct 1, 2007
16,147
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My orange arrived and it looks kinda pastel-y but as far as I can tell it’s real from material to the underside showing 38mm and s/m

Don’t mind it for $20 but I was expecting it to be bolder

Hard to photograph accurately too

Is this just the norm with this material? I remember a violet band looking drastically different than violet silicOne due to material

The top and bottom are same color but it has the bottom faded light look in a lot of
Lighting
 

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thadoggfather

macrumors P6
Oct 1, 2007
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Spicy orange is definitely more bolder...

More bolder in general or than mine?

The regular orange looks more faded-ish?

Just making sure it’s normal and not maybe the color deteriorated from their cleaning process (if there is one) or if I got a defective color haha
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Marine Green is sold out in 38mm in BestBuy too. :p

Apple keeps pulling really cool colors
 

mbhforum

macrumors 6502a
Jun 23, 2010
766
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More bolder in general or than mine?

The regular orange looks more faded-ish?

Just making sure it’s normal and not maybe the color deteriorated from their cleaning process (if there is one) or if I got a defective color haha
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Apple keeps pulling really cool colors

Bolder in general.
 
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thadoggfather

macrumors P6
Oct 1, 2007
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Bolder in general.

thanks good to know!

should've gone spicy orange, but then again its not in stock at apple stores anymore (pulled) and don't want to pay $50 and tax anyways haha



$20 was the sweet spot for regular orange on eBay

Surprised they just now got around to a bold orange this year, (outside of the Hermes one which looks kinda bold too? and wouldn't spend the asking price or hunt one down)
 

PeterJH3

macrumors 6502
Sep 2, 2017
385
573
Atlanta, GA
My orange arrived and it looks kinda pastel-y but as far as I can tell it’s real from material to the underside showing 38mm and s/m

Is this just the norm with this material? I remember a violet band looking drastically different than violet silicOne due to material

The top and bottom are same color but it has the bottom faded light look in a lot of
Lighting
That almost looks Apricot-y to me. When I first got the original Orange, I thought it looked waaay to close to the first gen (PRODUCT)Red. I got it again end of last year, only to complete my collection. Yes, the bands, ALL the bands, look different in different lighting!

That said, these are the oranges as I see them...L to R: Orange, Spicy, Apricot, Hermès (and then, zoomed out, with everything).

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thadoggfather

macrumors P6
Oct 1, 2007
16,147
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Yeah I think it is apricot as well...

it was sold as 'light orange' in description so maybe thats it?

Its not bad tho honestly! just surprised

When was apricot sold through Apple?
 

Pennypacker83

macrumors regular
Dec 27, 2010
139
98
Ocean Blue. Definitely some purple tint to it under direct light, but more like Blue Cobalt in low light. The first picture is just to show the purple tint, this is not how bright it looks in person.

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On hand, no lights.

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the future

macrumors 68040
Jul 17, 2002
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That almost looks Apricot-y to me. When I first got the original Orange, I thought it looked waaay to close to the first gen (PRODUCT)Red. I got it again end of last year, only to complete my collection. Yes, the bands, ALL the bands, look different in different lighting!

That said, these are the oranges as I see them...L to R: Orange, Spicy, Apricot, Hermès (and then, zoomed out, with everything).

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You know, I think we‘ve been here before and I know you are sure you got this right, but I still think you have Spicy and Apricot mixed up. From my point of view IRL Spicy is the most „orangey“ orange except for Hermes, but in your pictures Apricot always looks more „orangey“ than Spicy.

P.S. Thanks to your other comparison pictures I got the new Sky Blue as well and love it!
 

dead_smed

macrumors member
Jan 9, 2004
61
23
Milton Keynes
I don‘t want to say... but A LOT! I could buy anither watch for this amount...
But I like this charging case so much!
Did you again have to pair a gold edition watch to your account to be able to order one? Also in your last photo is it in some kind of white protective shell?
 

PeterJH3

macrumors 6502
Sep 2, 2017
385
573
Atlanta, GA
You know, I think we‘ve been here before and I know you are sure you got this right, but I still think you have Spicy and Apricot mixed up.
Photos say otherwise...lighting is subjective.
 

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