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I bought the Apple Watch Gold with the Milanese loop. It looks amazing and I couldn’t resist not getting it.

I took my bands and found the silver bands look fine with the gold and so does the black.

Brown leather bands will also look nice and some sports bands.

So it is not so bad.

Just need gold adapters for the leather bands (especially the brown leather bands)

Great to hear and hope for some pics of different bands on the gold to see the variety.
 
Surprisingly Gold goes well with many bands
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It goes well with dark colors. Also looks nice with silver.
 
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Tried the gold on in the Apple Store a few days ago. It's a great looking watch.

My only beef is the lug/pin colors. They promised matching lugs for the space black and it never happened. So basically, for me, that means the stone sport band, the Milanese loop, or the black sport band as it comes with a pin that matches the band.

Haven't ordered yet, so who knows what I will decide in the end.
 
It also looks nice with brown leather loop and the white with black nike band.

But the gold with gold Milanese loop is amazing.
 
Though my intent was to go with the silver, I picked up the gold instead, and though I love the look, the bands do give me pause. My sport bands (except for the white) will look fine, but I don't see it going well with my silver link bracelet or Milanese. I'll probably get the gold Milanese and maybe a black link bracelet (probably a faux-black link bracelet) for dressier options; I wear my watch everywhere. Since I'm going to be keeping this for three years or so, it will be worth it.
 
I'm agonizing over this right now, too. I've always been a fan of shiny silver so it was a big surprise to me to like the gold so much when I first saw it. But I'm also in love with the Cape Cod Blue leather loop and am not sure how the two would look together.
 
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Hey Creepy, nice watch.

I'm trying to gauge the durability of the watch. Is that a scratch on the side of the casing already ?

lol no, it isn't. it's just dirty. scared me for a second. i rocked the series 0 space grey all these years with not one scratch or chip on the case, and one teeny teeny imperceptible scratch on the watch face (could be the oleophobic layer). so i would be the wrong person to judge how durable the coating is... i form an invisible protective bubble around my left wrist.
 
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Anyone tried the gold with a product red sport band? The gold looks really nice and matches well with darker color, not so sure about brighter ones. The Milanese gold band is a little too much bling-bling for me. For Milanese the space black looks the best to me. Silver seems to be the sweet-spot when it comes to combining different bands, both bright and dark colors.
 
No, it was an official Apple site. It was really nice. This works also, to a certain degree. It doesn't look like they have all the bands though.

I spent more time than I care to admit on that site and I wish they had it now.
 
Any live pictures of the gold stainless with the black link bracelet?! Looks killer on the website together!
 
Finally!!

Darn, I thought they had just a plan black sport loop available for the GSS? I am not a fan of the "flecks" of the black one they are displaying. I am wondering which sport loop will look best with the GSS. The indigo doesn't look bad.

Yes, they do only have the plain black sport loop or the milanese loop for the GSS, if you wish for any other watch band/strap that comes with the GSS, you will have to add that as an additional order to your order.

Here's the link.
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-watc...-space-black-stainless-steel-black-sport-band
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-watc...reSelect=false&product=MTUQ2LL/A&step=detail#
 
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I purchased the Hermès SS so I might be a little biased, but I did check out the gold in the Apple Store. It looked about as bad as I thought it would.

The real deal breaker for me is the lack of bands (most do not look good in my opinion).

The only way I’d justify it is for the Milanese loop, but it still doesn’t work for me. It reminds me of the Ceramic S2/3. Apple never properly provided bands with lugs that matched. Hopefully they do a better job with the gold watch.
 
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I purchased the Hermès SS so I might be a little biased, but I did check out the gold in the Apple Store. It looked about as bad as I thought it would.

The real deal breaker for me is the lack of bands (most do not look good in my opinion).

The only way I’d justify it is for the Milanese loop, but it still doesn’t work for me. It reminds me of the Ceramic S2/3. Apple never properly provided bands with lugs that matched. Hopefully they do a better job with the gold watch.
Apple did a really good job with the Hermes watch this year e.g. the New Hermes bands and the new Hermes watch faces.

I really like this one.
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-watc...ordeaux-rose-extrême-rose-azalée-double-tour#
 
Anyone have a picture of the SS gold with space black link bracelet? I imagine that would look amazing.
 
I bought the Apple Watch Gold with the Milanese loop. It looks amazing and I couldn’t resist not getting it.

I took my bands and found the silver bands look fine with the gold and so does the black.

Brown leather bands will also look nice and some sports bands.

So it is not so bad.

Just need gold adapters for the leather bands (especially the brown leather bands)
Here are some gold lugs. More should start to trickle out, they already have brass gold set as coming soon.

MoKo Lugs/Connectors https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010LFI2YY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_A7qSBbHZ1FH6R
 
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Anyone have a picture of the SS gold with space black link bracelet? I imagine that would look amazing.

I'm sure its heresy but I'd love to see the SS link bracelet with the gold. My SS link is by far my favorite band, but I'd really like to get the SS gold watch. Whether it looks terrible with that band will be my deciding factor.
 
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I'm sure its heresy but I'd love to see the SS link bracelet with the gold. My SS link is by far by favorite band, but I'd really like to get the SS gold watch. Whether it looks terrible with that band will be my deciding factor.
I am on the same boat as you...waiting to see how the link band looks with the gold SS watch
 
I know the Gold one looks nice but I don’t want to waste the bands I already own.

Are there any 3rd party bands available now with gold connectors?

Look on amazon ceramic bands are your best bet. Go with gold.
 
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