Beware! I've just ordered a stone sport band for my gold aluminum watch and I noticed its pin button is in silver! If your watch case is in gold only the band that comes with your watch will have a matching gold pin button. The very same band sold separately only has it in silver, some in space gray. Apple should have made bands with pin buttons matching the three case finishes. This lack of uniformity and attention to detail seems quite un-Apple, I would say.
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Beware: band pin button doesn't match gold case
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I agree this is very annoying for the non-silver/black watches. At least the black watch matches with a black band that only has a black pin.
Years ago, Apple also had a black band with a silver pin that went well with the silver watches, but the gold watches have always been left out of being able to buy a separate matching pin band.
What has really annoyed me as a space black watch owner was that I could not get an all black classic buckle or leather loop.
Of course they do. I contacted Apple Support only a few months ago to buy another sports band for my ceramic as a spare.
Maybe you just got lucky. They told me there are no bands with gold pins for sale.
I didn't get lucky, they do this all the time. You just tell them that you want a replacement for the band that came with your watch, give them the serial number, say that it isn't sold on the site and they will search in their system for the product code.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/watch/repair/service
Thing is, I don’t want a replacement for the pink sand band that came with my watch. I just want to buy different bands to add to my collection and none of them has gold pin buttons.
I had many Apple watches in SS in the past and changed my bands so often. Now I have a Series 4 Gold SS and I just cannot look at the silver pin. I am now stuck with the stone band. I wish they offered more bands with the gold pin 
I feel for you. I bought the first generation Apple Watch Sport in the rose gold color when it first came out. I discovered this very issue a few months thereafter, when I wanted to buy a new sport band of a different color.
It really puzzles me that Apple STILL doesn’t offer gold-pinned sport bands for individual sale, ESPECIALLY now that they sell the gold colored stainless model. This issue is one of the reasons I went with the silver stainless Series 3, which I wear now.
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I think he/she is referring to the pin on the sport band that is only gold if you order the stone band with the GSS watch. If you order the stone band after, it is silver.
Same thing was true with the SBSS with the sport band, it came with a matching black pin, but if you ordered the same band after it was silver.
Thank you for this information! I wanted to chime in and say, I followed your advice and it 100% worked. I actually have the Milanese loop with my gold stainless steel Apple Watch 4. I HATE this watch band. Verizon is offering me a free replacement and a credit to offset the difference between the watch bands. They didn’t have the sport loop in stock so they offered that if I buy the band myself, they will credit my account for the cost. I was getting really frustrated when I discovered that I couldn’t find a band that would match this stupid-expensive gold watch. I contacted Apple support to request the stone sport loop with a gold pin and it was the easiest thing in the world. It’s already in process and I should have it in a few days. Thanks for your help!!!