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Broken Milanese Loop
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Good grief! Is that part where the magnet is or is the whole band magnetic? Glue? I hope not. I would have thought the parts would be welded together. Yikes. Keep us posted on what you find out. Sorry that happened to your nice looking band.
Wow. Very sorry to see what has happened to your Milanese.
I'm surprised how shallow the groove is where the mesh is held into the magnetic buckle. I would have thought that the mesh would have been inserted much further in for strength.
I can't imagine that any glue would hold those pieces together when the contact area is so small.
Now I'm even more afraid to keep my Milanese.
I'm surprised how shallow the groove is where the mesh is held into the magnetic buckle. I would have thought that the mesh would have been inserted much further in for strength.
I can't imagine that any glue would hold those pieces together when the contact area is so small.
Now I'm even more afraid to keep my Milanese.
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Yeah. I wasn't sure what the term should be because when I think of solder I think of lead and I doubted they used lead on these.
Probably silver soldered. Then again it certainly could simply be superglued- there's a cyanoacrylate warning on the manual regarding that particular band, as well as some of the others.
Wow!, I would expect that on a knock-off copy but not a band at £130, I bought a milanese bracelet with connectors for £19.99 and its better connected to the buckle that that.
Looks like it was glued to me and if done correctly this should not have happened. I would have like to see the mesh band go farther in the end piece to give the glue more surface area to bond to. Looks to be very shallow, not even a 1/8", more like a 16th which would not give a lot of bonding surface.
Apple will replace it without a question unless they detect abuse and i see none here.
Apple will replace it without a question unless they detect abuse and i see none here.
Exactly. Even if the end piece needed to be a fraction thicker I'm surprised that they didn't do that simply based on the fact that that is the only piece that is holding the entire thing together.
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wow, how did you manage that? I had my Milanese Loop for 2 weeks before I exchanged it and was built really well.
Apple are sending me out a new band, and have asked me to send back the old one so they can look into it.
Just curious. If you purchased a genuine milanese loop band from Apple and the strap broke causing the watch to get damaged. Where would you stand?
You would stand at the mercy of the Apple store. The right thing would be to make it right but who knows till they have it happen.