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Apple sapphire debate

Treat your things rough and they’ll get damaged.

My SSSB S3 has two small scratches on the display and I’m noticing some microabrasions on the case.

I wear it almost all the time and treat it like a G-Shock watch.
 
Here's the deal - everything we've seen relating to the "inferior sapphire" Apple uses has related to the small camera lens on the iPhone. Earlier in this thread, a consumer reports video showed the first gen Apple Watch comparing the ION X glass and SS Sapphire glass. The ION on the Aluminum scratched easily but the SS Sapphire watch did not, even up to the 9. It looks like they used a standard to test it as well. End of story. (I should have watched the video earlier before posting one of my last posts.) You absolutely cannot compare the camera lens to the watch. Anyone with a tiny bit of intelligence would know that.

To claim that someone has never worn a real watch with real sapphire in the past is a poor assumption. Very poor assumption. I for one only bought watches (and still have them) that had sapphire crystal after buying one watch without it and scratching the heck out of it when I was a kid. I know what sapphire crystal is, as I'm sure most others do as well. My series 2 SS was beat to hell and yet doesn't have any evidence of scratching. It's real sapphire or damn close to it enough to support Apple's claims.
 
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It also seems we’re still trusting a single guy and his YouTube videos over all other evidence to the contrary, including the repeated confirmation from Apple. I can find several YouTube channels that try to convince me the Earth is flat. I’m not about to question the evidence to the contrary. I think it’s still a ridiculous suggestion that there are grades of sapphire that would have different levels of scratch resistance.
 
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ajm222 said:
"Apple has confirmed to The Verge that the company uses sapphire in its iPhone camera lens. It appears the correct testing conditions weren't adhered to in JerryRigEverything's tests. "Apple confirms the iPhone 7 camera lens is sapphire, and under proper testing conditions achieves the hardness and purity results expected from sapphire," says an Apple spokesperson."
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The lens is not in question here.
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ajm222 said:
It also seems we’re still trusting a single guy and his YouTube videos over all other evidence to the contrary, including the repeated confirmation from Apple. I can find several YouTube channels that try to convince me the Earth is flat. I’m not about to question the evidence to the contrary. I think it’s still a ridiculous suggestion that there are grades of sapphire that would have different levels of scratch resistance.
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All what evidence?

If people are here posting that the Sapphire display is scratched that hardly supports your comment. This is the first and only place I have been online where there are comments from folks who claim and show their Sapphire display scratched.
 
The lens is sapphire as well. Nothing has proven the lens isn’t traditional sapphire. A scratch doesn’t prove anything. Sapphire can be scratched by many things commonly found in your everyday life. I’ve had domed watch crystals on Swiss watches scratched. I’ve seen numerous posts from people on various watch forums asking how to buff out scratches in their sapphire crystals. It’s not like it doesn’t happen regularly.
 
ZipZap said:
This is the first and only place I have been online where there are comments from folks who claim and show their Sapphire display scratched.
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Are ‘online comments’ large enough of a sample to prove that the Sapphire scratches beyond what is expected? [Because you read some members on a tech forum ‘claimed’ their sapphire displayed scratched].

So, what about the other members who have had every stainless Apple Watch generation and their sapphire displays have never scratched? The argument goes both ways, it’s not just a one-way street because you think Apple is making false claims about the sapphire, when in fact, what you said wasn’t true, it’s merely what you want to believe. Those are two things are not mutually exclusive in _any_of your post(s).
 
bambooshots said:
Treat your things rough and they’ll get damaged.

My SSSB S3 has two small scratches on the display and I’m noticing some microabrasions on the case.

I wear it almost all the time and treat it like a G-Shock watch.
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do you use the SBSS loop band?
 
I am shocked at how easily my new Series 4 watch picks up scratches. It's starting to look horrible. I don't think I am doing any unusual. I work in a office, ride a bike and do all the other things we all do, cook, clean, etc. The original Watch, which this one replaced, has no scratches whatsoever...

Something has changed in the most recent version. I am sure of it.
 
iMi said:
I am shocked at how easily my new Series 4 watch picks up scratches. It's starting to look horrible. I don't think I am doing any unusual. I work in a office, ride a bike and do all the other things we all do, cook, clean, etc. The original Watch, which this one replaced, has no scratches whatsoever...

Something has changed in the most recent version. I am sure of it.
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model and band used?
 
I took a nasty fall in 2016 on some concrete outdoor stairs and scratched my Gen 1 stainless steel case and screen (and broke my finger as well as cut up my arm pretty badly). I wasn’t that surprised the screen scratched. I had lots of people on here argue with me that it wasn’t scratched (they never saw it). But the Apple Store confirmed it was and I had it replaced via AppleCare. None of my other SD watches were ever scratched despite daily wear.
 
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