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Apple Watch Ultra User Mods Titanium Casing to 'Deuglify' Design
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To reject a warranty claim, Apple would have to demonstrate a connection between the fault and the modifications made by the owner.
The orange ain't going away. The orange again exists for easy visibility in low visibility situations like say, in a blizzard, or underwater since the watch can be used as a dive computer. Hate it all you want, but that color is necessary. Function over fashion sweetheart.
Apple Marketing's idea of International Orange. International Orange is actually a very red orange, the color of the Golden Gate Bridge, or very close to it (which most people consider more red than orange).
Well, it depends which mix you use. Aerospace, Golden Gate Bridge, or Engineering. Each is a different shade and varies by brand. Sherwin Williams likely was not involved in the coloring of the watch button. Ha. We are more in the Aerospace (NASA) range with the button.
Wish they would have had a dark color option as well instead of just the one color.
Pretty dumb. If you want to change that much about the watch then maybe you shouldn’t buy it in the first place.
I hope they release this as a special edition just so the International Orange haters will actually have something to complain about.
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LMAO
It's all good. Everyone is entitled to their "fashion" opinions.
Yup not every iPhone Pro buyer uses that for anything pro(fessional/state etc) and not every Porsche buyer is a racing driver. The list goes on.
If Jony Ive was still at Apple, that's how the Ultra would have looked from the beginning, probably.
Think how much less foolish you'd look if you'd done a google search.
First hit:
International orange - Wikipedia
It's fine to like the watch the way Apple designed it. This watch has a good functional design and is a good watch for its intended market. But aesthetically it is objectively not beautifully designed. It doesn't have to be beautifully designed though as compared to the normal Apple Watch because it serves a different purpose. Choice-supportive bias happens and it's quite natural.
Yeah. This is one of the issues for the watch in terms of its "look". The watch is pear shaped, busy and both angular & curved.
Exactly. I think you kinda prove the point that this design isn't about looks, it's about function and that's a fair design choice. BUT, could Apple have made it look better? Yes, if they wanted to.
Recently Apple are prioritising function over looks for their designs. Some might say a little too much, but it seems to be a reaction to the Ive era of looks over function. Hopefully Apple will find a happy middle ground in the future.
I guess I’m not fashionable enough or self conscious enough to not wear my Apple Watch Ultra with a suit. People act like it looks like a G-Shock. It’s an $800 titanium Watch that looks and feels Ultra premium. I’ll be wearing mine with a variety of bands with my suits and won’t give a crap what others think.
On the international orange debate:
Yes it’s a real color
Yes its intended application is for things that need to be high-viz
The AWU’s use of the color, however, is not “function over fashion.” It is fashion. It is what one would call a “pop of color” or an “accent color” that is inspired by/reminiscent of/harkens to real uses of the color. It exists to give the air of toolness and mission-criticalness.
Functionally, this the benefits of this button being high-viz are dubious, because:
- There are only 2 buttons on the watch, and these 2 buttons are on opposite sides of each other, so there is no ambiguity
- The watch is on one’s wrist, so there is no need to use one’s eyes to search for the device, and it is bound to the wrist in a specific orientation, so the buttons are always in the same place relative to each other, the rest of the device, and the user’s body
Just because international orange is a real color, with real applications, doesn’t mean you’re going to hear stories of lost hikers being found because the search helicopter was able to see the international orange action button through the blizzard. It’s ridiculous.
I like the orange button, and I wouldn’t change it. But it’s fashion. A pop of color. An accent.
Yes it’s a real color
Yes its intended application is for things that need to be high-viz
The AWU’s use of the color, however, is not “function over fashion.” It is fashion. It is what one would call a “pop of color” or an “accent color” that is inspired by/reminiscent of/harkens to real uses of the color. It exists to give the air of toolness and mission-criticalness.
Functionally, this the benefits of this button being high-viz are dubious, because:
- There are only 2 buttons on the watch, and these 2 buttons are on opposite sides of each other, so there is no ambiguity
- The watch is on one’s wrist, so there is no need to use one’s eyes to search for the device, and it is bound to the wrist in a specific orientation, so the buttons are always in the same place relative to each other, the rest of the device, and the user’s body
Just because international orange is a real color, with real applications, doesn’t mean you’re going to hear stories of lost hikers being found because the search helicopter was able to see the international orange action button through the blizzard. It’s ridiculous.
I like the orange button, and I wouldn’t change it. But it’s fashion. A pop of color. An accent.
Not sure if anyone responded, but the screws lead to nowhere. There’s only a plating. You still have to access the internals from the face, unfortunately.
It’s the protrusion around the crown that is the ugliest part to me. I understand why it’s there…but it’s still ugly.
I thought about that but then I realized that the button is always in the same place on my wrist so I would be more likely to find it by touch and not sight. But I don't think I'd buff the color off.