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Apple Watch Sport's Ion-X Glass Display Cover Subjected to Scratch Test in New Video

The sport is much lighter than the SS version, though, and if a knife can't scratch it that makes me fairly confident.
 
Obviously if you are working in the construction industry this would not be the preferred watch. However, sapphire crystal should be used on all of them as standard, in the same price range.
 
The watch screen probably only has to last 2-3 years before the software / hardware is obsolete! That's why I opted for the cheapest watch ;)
 
Well, ya never know when your going to forget that square of sandpaper in your pocket, briefcase or backpack and then you go digging for something and viola! Your shinny new watch is all scratched. I can't tell you how many watches I've destroyed this way. :rolleyes:
 
Waxhead138 said:
I wish people realized that Watergate was the name of the hotel that the robbery took place in under Nixon's watch, and an event that had nothing to do with water at all.

Maybe then we'd gate less -gate this and -gate that stuff.

Edit: Yeah Yeah I get it, Watergate is synonymous with scandal.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w ;) Edit: Damn, just saw someone posted the video before me. My bad.

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ninjadex said:
Oh, that's why this guy looks familiar... Samsung's greatest asset.
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Thats why he uses a Mac Pro, Macbook, iPad and iPhone as his personal devices. ;)

I really don't get the all this hate against this guy Yes, he is the Bendgate guy, but although it seems the media (and also he himself to a certain degree) made a way too big thing out of the issue, he had a certain point. And if you watch more than one of his videos and take a look at the devices he uses, you can't really say he doesn't like Apple. Same for MKBHD by the way, whom some people here also categorise as "Apple-Hater", just because he says he likes Android. But I forgot, to say that is some kind of lese majesty here, sadly...
 
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After scanning the first page of comments, I'm surprised that nobody has pointed out that the watch in the thumbnail photo is NOT an Watch.

Fraudulent video.
 
thunder17 said:
noun
a grade that is not high enough to pass an examination or test.
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Is that a colloquialism or American English? I haven't seen it used in that way (English is not my native language). Do you have a source?
 
lk400 said:
Is that a colloquialism or American English? I haven't seen it used in that way (English is not my native language). Do you have a source?
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It's normal usage. Check the Dictionary app on your Mac or any online dictionary.
 
inscrewtable said:
This video shows exactly what you'd expect, which is that steel with a hardness of 5 will not scratch gorilla glass with a hardness of nearly 7, but sand, being the chief constituent of glass will in fact scratch glass as they have an equal hardness.

Ion glass will make it stronger with regards to shattering but will not increase the surface hardness as only ions are exchanged between sodium and potassium.

So the ion glass has precisely the qualities that you'd want in a sport watch compared to sapphire, stronger, lighter and less brittle than sapphire. If you have a heavy get off on your mountain bike you'll likely scratch the surface on some quartz containing rock but you're less likely to shatter it.

Sandpaper with carborundum will also scratch sapphire, seeing as they are both the same hardness.
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Can you make some YouTube videos about this rather than than this Hilsenteger guy?

You're a lot more informative!
 
lk400 said:
I don't mean to sound confrontational but in what language is fail a noun?
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Why, our mother tongue to be precise! Remember, language changes over time. 15 years ago I wouldn't be walking around saying something is a "BIG FAIL." But times have changed my friend. I don't use it as such often, but I thought the Apple watch required it.

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Dictionary.com

noun
14.
Slang.
an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance:
Their app update is a massive fail.
the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way:
His online post is full of fail.
a person who fails in this way.
 
slicecom said:
My sleeves are lined with sandpaper. I'm screwed.
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Did you make a guest appearance on The Mighty Boosh?!

Sandstorm.jpg
 
kingofwale said:
How dare him, expose a design weakness of a device!!!
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If a house falls after an earthquake at 9,9 richter, its not a engineering weakness, its physics. If you apply enough force on an object it will bend or brake, thats not exposing a hidden structural weekness, its physics.

Yeah, the iPhone bends and he was the first guy to do it on video and post it in his stupid channel that has a certain amount of followers. He exposed what every mid-intelligent person already knew, but ofc the majority of people are not in this category.
 
Watch case anyone...

Of course its going to scratch, it's glass. The Sapphire ones will scratch too in the right circumstances. The case will also scratch and so will the band if you get a metal one. This thing is going scratch and wear much quicker than the iPhone as it's on your wrist and coming into contact with all sorts of materials all the time. If you don't want scratches on a watch you better not be wearing it - every watch I own has scratches on it. Who cares?

I bet someone will start making Apple Watch cases soon!

And you'll buy 'em too! :)
 
J4B3 said:
Well, if you go to a Rolex dealer, an actual (we don't like discussing price) one. You know, the places where you have to bend over before they hand you the bill.

They charge $200 for a sapphire glass replacement (including labor).
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Actually there are plenty of under $100 watches with saphire glasses. The Sport version could have a saphire if they really wanted to. I bet all V2 versions will have saphire.
 
Mountains, meet molehill.

  • All watches scratch, accept this
  • Some crystals are plastic e.g. Omega Speedster (space versions) - designed to be shatter resistant (and not do damage to other kit/people in microgravity if they do shatter)
  • Some are glass - specialist or otherwise - designed to be shatter resistant
  • Some are sapphire - designed to be scratch resistant

So

  1. Take care of any watch you wear as best you can
  2. When they scratch enough for you to be bothered by it
  3. Take them to a jeweller who has heard of jeweller's rouge* and pay them a few quid/bucks to polish out the scratches
  4. Problem solved

*This is unlikely to be a mall store where Saturday staff are selling gold chains at £30/$50 a pop. A real jeweller/watch specialist, y'know one with training and experience.
 
And now we wait for someone to do a proper scratch test who actually knows something about the materials they are using.
 
Who is getting stabbed in the wrist in their everyday life to the point that sandpaper is considered the more "extreme" circumstance?
 
MacRumors said:
The video, from Lewis Hilsenteger of Unbox Therapy, uses Ion-X glass covers sourced from Sonny Dickson, who has acquired parts from various pre-release devices in the past. The glass covers in the video are said to be the same Ion-X covers used in the Apple Watch Sport.
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Uh, no, I'm just not buying this notion that people are finding Apple Watch glass (or sapphire) covers just lying along the road somewhere.
 
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