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Apple Watch Series 5 Titanium Models Weigh Up to 13% Less Than Stainless Steel Models
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To be fair Edition watches get 2 year warranty standard and Applecare adds damage coverage and additional year so 3 years of coverage with Applecare vs 2 on the cheaper watches...
Dream iPhone materials are ceramic back, titanium body, and sapphire display
I’m with you. I like the heftier weight of my SS S4.
No, but bash your aluminium watch and it'll dent. I doubt you'll mark the titanium.
Hmmm. The lighter the watch, the fewer calories you burn when wearing it and the longer it takes to finish your move ring. 
Because the information at first was wrong on the spec sheets, I already found it weird that all had the same weights because the obvious advantage of titanium over steel is that it's lighter.
Yeah that would be amazing... you know more people would buy an iPhone designer series from Apple then a watch. In my opinion at least. They did try a limited run of a more exclusive model when they released the jet black 7. Maybe it’s possible we see something similar with more prestigious materials.
Edition is two years warranty and AppleCare+ of three years total.
SS is the usual one year warranty and two year AppleCare+
Monthly price is different by $5 so yes Edition remains more expensive but not as much as it first appears when you don't consider the additional year.
My s3 is flawless, both body and screen, after a year and half of daily wear. Hard for me to justify any more expensive model.
Except the spec sheets listed the titanium model at the same weight as the stainless steel -- until this morning when they were corrected.
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You're probably not.
Haven't really had any reason to think about it, myself. I'm looking at the display most of the time.
Aluminum has a Moh’s hardness of 3, steel 4.5, titanium 6. In terms of scratch resistance only ceramic might be better. Structurally it’s way stronger, but in this application strength is moot.
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already tried sapphire for the phone cover, it was a bust.
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What are you doing with the watch that makes the aluminum ones not feel solid? Are you biting down on it as hard as you can? Are you opening beer bottles with it? Are you replacing your car bumper with Apple Watches?
If you work at the zoo giving prostate exams to the gorillas, I could see the aluminum ones not being solid enough for that.
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And the Sapphire display is the only real reason to get this over aluminum. I got a stainless 3 to get the more robust glass, and I haven’t regretted it once. I’m getting the Ti watch to update it.
Titanium is stronger than aluminium for the same weight.
Not sure what you mean by that, as the titanium watch is lighter than the cheaper steel-cased watch.