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Every Apple Watch band Apple released. Ever.
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It has no problem slipping in, it never clicks and secures into place in the middle. It just goes through all the way.
I just fiddled with it a bunch, pressing the button on the bottom of the watch that releases the band. Eventually it locked into place, but it's hard to replicate.
For you all with tons of bands, how often do you switch? Daily? I have 4 bands and have a hard time deciding so I can't imagine having dozens and having to decide!
Managed to order Noir Hermes Band - and it immediately went "Out of stock"! Seems like I got - literally - the last one in Germany...
Here you go. $8 on ebay, figured I'd give my first woven nylon a try.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/space-grey-best-band-combinations.2144467/post-28036241
I would say I pair a band with a watch for about two days before I feel guilty that I’m not putting another less-used band to use. Also outfit colors and sports and weather play a role. I never let my sport loops or leather get sweaty, if it’s raining fluoroelastimer only.
I find it really satisfying sometimes taking all my watches down to my band box and doing a wholesale change.
I do try to avoid changing the band for my aluminum too much as that’s the watch I use to play hockey and I don’t want my teammates realizing how many different bands I have haha
I change 2-3 times a day. I wake up with a sport loop on, swap to a Nike sport band for my workout, and then swap into a different sport loop until I begin again the next morning.
I usually sleep with the sport loop and then change depending on what's going on during the day.
I wouldn't wear the Link Bracelet, Milanese loop, or leather for exercising (or sleeping).
If it's night, I might wear a Nike reflective loop.
Several times a day -- basically every time I change activities or leave the house. My wardrobe is basically jeans and a neutral shirt. I spice it up by changing scarves and watch bands frequently.
Yeah should have mentioned this...nothing better than wearing neutral clothes and using a watch band for a power accent (I think that’s what the fashion world calls it)
Does anyone have the Apple Model Numbers for the following bands in 40/44mm?
| Alaskan Blue |
| Beryl |
| Black (2nd Gen) |
| Blue Horizon |
| Canary Yellow |
| Clementine |
| Cornflower |
| Dark Gray |
| Delft Blue |
| Dragonfruit |
| Hermes Black |
| Hermes Orange |
| Hibiscus |
| Khaki |
| Lavender Gray |
| Lemon Crème |
| Light Gray |
| Mellow Yellow |
| Nectarine |
| Pacific Green |
| Papaya |
| Pine Green |
| Pink Sand (2nd Gen) |
| Pomegranant |
| Soft White / Pebble |
| Spearmint |
| Stone (2nd Gen) |
| White (2nd Gen) |
| Black / Hyper Grape |
| Black / Pink Blast |
| Celestial Teal / black |
| Desert Sand / Black |
| Olive Flack / Black |
| Royal Pulse / Black |
| Smokey Mauve / Particle Beige |
| Spruce Fog / Vintage Lichen |
| Teal Tint / Tropical Twist |
We’re finally getting LTE watches here in New Zealand. Not sure why we don’t get offered the Edition or Hermes models as all sales are on-line and fulfilled out of Sydney, and Australia gets the full selection.
Anyway, that has made the choice easier; SS it is. Before I fully commit, and given as an LTE it will be the watch I wear every day, how do you find black works with your band collections?
My S0 is SS and the S3, S4 (both sold on) and S5 Nike are all silver aluminium, but I’m slightly tempted to go with SBSS. Obviously my link bracelet isn’t going to work, but I could change the lugs on my Saddle Brown Classic Buckle. Has anyone gone with a black watch and found they have sport bands that don’t work with it?
Anyway, that has made the choice easier; SS it is. Before I fully commit, and given as an LTE it will be the watch I wear every day, how do you find black works with your band collections?
My S0 is SS and the S3, S4 (both sold on) and S5 Nike are all silver aluminium, but I’m slightly tempted to go with SBSS. Obviously my link bracelet isn’t going to work, but I could change the lugs on my Saddle Brown Classic Buckle. Has anyone gone with a black watch and found they have sport bands that don’t work with it?
I think “black goes with everything” applies here. The issue for me is less “does black match this band” as “is black too heavy/night/formal/bro” for this occasion or time of day.
I’m pretty self-conscious about band matching but I wear everything except white sport band or a spruce fog/storm gray loop with my SBSS. Your dragon fruits and hibiscuses and crimsons make you a little 80s day-glo but it works for me.
I'm in NZ too. I had an S4 SBSS with the Apple Link bracelet and that looked super slick, so good I never used any other bands with it. I now have an S5 ceramic which is a completely different look, but in my imo the ceramic only looks good with the sport bands, but it looks good with all of them -- any colour -- imo. It's a lot of fun changing the look.
Please do not get Apple Watch Sport bands from Amazon UK. At least not the Canary Yellow. I got it (and it's sold by Amazon UK, not some third party seller) and it turns out it's a fake item. I am now in the process of returning it. I also got a spearmint sport band there, that is a genuine item. So it's really the luck of the draw which shouldn't be the case if you are buying from Amazon UK (and sold by them).
The fake item has a really promising box and the packaging material looks really good. But the band itself screams fake.
The fake item has a really promising box and the packaging material looks really good. But the band itself screams fake.
How do you know its fake? I bought a sport loop from amazon Uk several months back and I always assumed its genuine but as its the only one I have I don't actually know for sure!
It's very obvious once you take it out of the box. They are asking me to email photos to them which I have. I'm hoping the return process is simple as I really don't feel like going out out my way to return something which was falsely advertised. I'm in Australia and I had to use a package forwarding company so I'm already losing my portion of the shipping cost for them to ship it from UK to Australia even if Amazon UK refunded me. I'm positive the forwarding company did not tamper with the Canary Yellow band as it arrived sealed and the other colour I got (Spearmint) is also sealed and is genuine.
All Apple bands have printing on the underside...the size and/or Nike on Nike bands.
I've never seen a 3rd party band with markings including the fake leather loop that came in an Apple box as used from Amazon.
Interesting! I am in NZ and purchased Dragon Fruit and Canary Yellow from Amazon UK and used a forwarding service to get them to NZ as well. I hadn't opened them yet, so just checked, fortunately both are new and genuine in my boxes. The Canary Yellow was actually still sealed.
What bits of the band made you feel it was fake?
I have another Canary Yellow (that I sourced off a Reddit seller) and it's identical to the one I got from Amazon UK: lugs correct colour, Apple printing on the band, finish and feel are excellent.
The bad guys are theoretically capable of doing anything, but they often can't be bothered.
(One also has to distinguish between knockoffs, where someone "merely" copies the design - hoping to get the customer to prefer their's because of a lower price - and counterfeits, where they add all the labeling and such in an attempt to pass it off as the real thing.)
But, yeah, every time I read someone declaring that, "oh this has x or y marking, therefore it's guaranteed to be genuine", I roll my eyes a little, because that's not proof, it's merely a potential indicator (if, say, the Watch/band/whatever says "Abble" on it, that's a pretty clear sign it isn't a genuine article from Apple, but you can't trust labels/markings to prove that something is legit). If you want guaranteed genuine, buy it direct from Apple - beyond that, there's always some measure of taking your chances.