People have reported that it is a coating process similar to the Space Black process, so it's not gold under the surface, but silver.
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Does Anyone Have Series 4 Gold Stainless Steel If Yes Does It Scratch Easy
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Better stick to Space Black then /sThis is the SS gold demo set in apple store...
Even i wipe it that big mark in the middle of the screen still appears...
Probably still too early to tell. I’ve had mine for a very short time. Yesterday was the first full day of wearing it.
I did have to take it off later when I went to get a mani-pedi after work. I kept it in my wristlet during that time. It got jostled around in there for a little bit, but it came out unscathed. It was in a small compartment, no keys or anything that could scratch it was inside. All went well.
We’ll see when I start to wear bracelets with it. I think that’s how my Series 3 SS got its first small abrasion (too minor to be a scratch) on its underside.
I did have to take it off later when I went to get a mani-pedi after work. I kept it in my wristlet during that time. It got jostled around in there for a little bit, but it came out unscathed. It was in a small compartment, no keys or anything that could scratch it was inside. All went well.
We’ll see when I start to wear bracelets with it. I think that’s how my Series 3 SS got its first small abrasion (too minor to be a scratch) on its underside.
Why? It’s the screen that’s worn from the 1000s of people playing with it for the past 2 weeks. Nothing wrong with the case.
I've had a gold stainless since a couple days after launch.... no scratches. I have bumped into stuff several times... the kitchen counter, doorway, etc.
Not terribly hard, but I did connect with these surfaces and so far, so good.
What does the screen problem have to do with Gold stainless steel body or you're just being sarcastic?
Guys I’ve had the gold SS from day 1. Ive baby’ed my watch. The other day my hand was under a table top and I made a mistake of reaching for something with that hand and I slightly hit my watch on the underneath of it.
It wasn’t a very hard hit but in the corner of where the impact happened scratch marks appeared on the metal. It would be hard to even photograph so it can’t be that deep but in the sun I can see scratches in that spot.
This could easily happen to anyone and I wouldn’t have described the table bottom as very rough. And as a result of this I would describe the PVD gold as not being very strong IMO
It wasn’t a very hard hit but in the corner of where the impact happened scratch marks appeared on the metal. It would be hard to even photograph so it can’t be that deep but in the sun I can see scratches in that spot.
This could easily happen to anyone and I wouldn’t have described the table bottom as very rough. And as a result of this I would describe the PVD gold as not being very strong IMO
I've had mine since the day after launch and it has no scratches.
Here is something interesting from the Daring Fireball review:
"The gold finish is applied using a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process. Apple tells me this process is very similar to the process that applies the diamond like coating (DLC) to the space black watches. One thing about both of these processes is that they take several hours to apply per watch, according to Apple."
Here is something interesting from the Daring Fireball review:
"The gold finish is applied using a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process. Apple tells me this process is very similar to the process that applies the diamond like coating (DLC) to the space black watches. One thing about both of these processes is that they take several hours to apply per watch, according to Apple."
This is the SS gold demo set in apple store...
Even i wipe it that big mark in the middle of the screen still appears...
That’s because thousands of hands have touched the Apple Watch in the _same_ spot on the dispay, where it has worn the oleophobic coating. That’s not a normal situation for most who have their Apple Watches to have that type of wear in such a short amount of time, and of course those dispay watches are not maintained either.
A mark on the screen has nothing to do with gold vs black - its the sapphire screen that probably got a metal band mark it up or something
Everyone knows they use different glass on the black versus the gold. /s
Err that’s a screen issueThis is the SS gold demo set in apple store...
Even i wipe it that big mark in the middle of the screen still appears...
I'v had the gold SS since launch and no scratches yet even though I have hit a few things with the watch (door jam, table edge, aluminum edge of my computer, etc.).
Good to know thanks went and tried one on. Took my key and gave it a quick scratch test with my key. No scratch
Seriously - the in store models aren’t for you to take a key to or drop on purpose - ugh
No kidding....how did you think it was ok to deliberately try to damage something you didn't own?
