They last about twice as long as typical leather bands from my experience. They use top-notch leather. I have never had an issue with colors running or fading.
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Hermès Edition Owners Thread
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The "silver titanium" finish on the S10 and S11 Hermes watches looks indistinguishable from the stainless steel in most lighting conditions. In dimmer and more diffuse light, I find that the silver titanium looks slightly darker than the stainless steel. I think this is likely due to the fact that the titanium finish is a coating and you get some destructive interference as some light reflects off the coating and then some reflects off the metal underneath (it's the same effect that creates colors on soap bubbles and oil slicks). To be clear, nobody looking at your watch would ever notice this slightest of differences. Just figured I would mention it.
The matte finish on the Ultra is different in both texture and color tone. I don't have one but I imagine the difference with the stainless steel lugs would be much more pronounced.
This is the attention to detail that I appreciate! Keep being awesome!
Is silver titanium the same as natural titanium from the Apple Watch Titanium collection? Wondering if Hermes shiny titanium is the same color as shiny natural titanium from the regular Apple Watch.
Titanium available in slate, gold, and natural
Apple Watch Hermès Titanium available in silver
. . . my old stainless steel links bands would NOT match up well with the Apple Watch Titanium! I'm compelled to get another Hermes AW
Just wondering, if the new Hermes bands come with "silver titanium" links? Did the bands from S10 come with silver titanium" links?
The natural titanium is a bit darker than the silver, but not dramatically so based on the pictures I have seen. I think you could probably get away with putting bands with stainless steel lugs on the natural case, but it won't be a perfect match. The silver Hermes finish will be much closer.
The Hermes bands for the regular watch continue to come with stainless steel lugs. The bands for the Ultra come with titanium lugs.
I completely missed that Clou de Selle is back and in 42mm to boot.
My wallet can’t take a new iPhone and this.
I missed out on the printed series 3 band and see them come across eBay from time to time. The white print on the blue leather is typically worn and does not look new. Thus I haven't picked up a series 3 printed band.
I assume this is a band that requires a lot of babying to keep it pristine.
I can confirm the new Fauxbourg party is on my S7 running WatchOS 26 release candidate 👍
Edit: answered above as well before I read the whole thread 😀
The only decision I don't understand is to release the Blue Pastel for the winter when you just had Blue Glacier for the summer. It is the same color (sort of) but slightly darker. Would have been more logical to keep this for summer 2026.... Still pretty ;-)
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The annoying thing about the update on my S7 is that the battery health was on 82% (for the last 18 months ) and was waiting for it to drop below 80 imminently so I could get a battery replacement under AC+ (which as we know would be basically a new S7). It has now gone up to 86% !
That is a big big jump! I would not have expected that much. Maybe 1% here or there, maybe maybe 2. But that's a lot.
Lol yep and highly annoying
To be fair, I get about 16-18 hours out of it still, so it is wearable. My S10 (alu Space Black) I easily get 24 hours out of it. My U2 I used to get about 40 hours, looking forward to the U3 Hermes on the 19th!!!!!!!!!!!