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Apple Watch Ultra is here! First impressions and photos thread
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I love my Graphite SS S8, but y'all are making me awfully tempted to return and swap...
I’m on the 7th hook from the end of the band like this photo and you can make it looser for another 5 or 6 hooks.
You can probably choose either small or medium sizes. I just don't like a lot of excess band looping around my wrist.
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Awesome pics! I have about the same wrist size so I was worried a bit but it looks really good. Congrats!
Also to some people who feel the need to say it looks terrible…. What is wrong with you? OP clearly likes it, so why this need to try to trash it? It is still better to say nothing if you don’t have anything nice to say.
Also to some people who feel the need to say it looks terrible…. What is wrong with you? OP clearly likes it, so why this need to try to trash it? It is still better to say nothing if you don’t have anything nice to say.
Looks great! My favorites in this thread are the sport band combo and the new ocean band.
The SS link along with the design of the ultra gives me ankle monitor vibes though. 🙃
The SS link along with the design of the ultra gives me ankle monitor vibes though. 🙃
There's not much of a lip on that Titanium, which is a shame. Apple is really paying lip service to it being much more protective.
First I was for the alpin band but after couple of photos I picked up the ocean band in midnight. Pickup today at 4:45 pm so 9 hours to go
The Ultra is not for me, but I think my dad will love this watch. He uses the regular series 6 I got him every single day, he loves it. I'm sure he'll love this one even more.😄
Will the 45mm sport bands work well with the Ultra? He's got a few.
Will the 45mm sport bands work well with the Ultra? He's got a few.
Super happy with mine. I have a 185mm - 190mm wrist depending on how I want the fit. A 9 or a 10 in the Solo sizes.
Love it, but to be honest I wouldn't want it any bigger on my wrist. If I was < 185mm I might hang out for Apple to make something smaller.
So I returned the orange alpine loop as I thought it was too expensive for what it is.
I picked up the midnight ocean band and it’s so much nicer than Apple’s promotional pics. Feels good quality and nicer than the alpine loop!
I picked up the midnight ocean band and it’s so much nicer than Apple’s promotional pics. Feels good quality and nicer than the alpine loop!
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A watch bezel is the metal ring supporting the crystal. The bezel on the display is the mounting of the display. The display is the panel of pixels which may itself have an inactive border. But, as I said, people can use whatever language they choose as long as it's clear.
To me, there's likely a reason why the display in the Series 8 is nearly edge to edge beneath the glass and the Ultra is not. I don't know the reason, but I am curious.
I suspect others believe as you do that Apple for some reason intentionally undercut the aesthetics of their top end watch so they could later introduce this withheld feature. "They have the capability but chose not to" seems like conspiratorial thinking to me. They went through the trouble of creating another display size for this watch, why only add a few pixels around the border on what's being positioned as the flagship watch if you can add more?
Apple also doesn't "run out of time" to do things. Certainly not anything design related.
I find it more likely there's a technical reason. I'm interested to see if the teardowns show anything.
Thanks for talking the time to post pictures etc. Enjoy the watch, looks great even with a small 155mm wrist size 
I have 155mm wrist size but am considering exchanging my medium alpine loop to a large one. The G hook ends up in the centre of my wrist (like OP), so when I'm typing the hook grinds against the palm rest on my macbook... Aluminium is probably going to lose against titanium, don't want a stupid little hook to ruin the $$$$$ laptop lol
Yeah to be honest and now having had the Alpine green loop in my hands, I think we have been "had" a little on the "Ultra" bands. Once you get past the no titanium bit, the regular loop bands look better.
The alpine loop definitely isn’t more premium than a standard sport loop. Same probably goes for the trail loop which no one seems to have.
The ocean band at least required them to make a new mound for the ridges and holes along the band compared to a sport band.
What size Alpine Loop did you get? Large? I have a ~180mm wrist and I'm wondering if I should go for the Medium or the Large. Don't want excess material but I also don't want to run out of it, either...
Yeah it's also quite fiddly to put on/off and adjust the hook on the Alpine loop
Large, and it still ain't large enough to get the buckle all the way clear of the flat part of the underside of my wrist.
Ahhhh, this is a great point of consideration. Maybe I do want to be at the smaller edge of the range.
I quite like the Alpine loop and won't be sending my green one back. The titanium does look good and matches the watch perfectly. And if you angle the hook a little, it goes on relatively easy with a tiny bit of practice.
However, I just think at $99 they are a little steep and won't be buying anymore when you could put a Midnight Solo loop on it for $49 and it would also look awesome.