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How many Apple Watch bands do you own? OEM only.

  • One band only.

    Votes: 436 16.5%
  • 2/4

    Votes: 965 36.5%
  • 5/8

    Votes: 525 19.8%
  • 9/12

    Votes: 178 6.7%
  • 12/15

    Votes: 105 4.0%
  • 16/20

    Votes: 77 2.9%
  • more than 20

    Votes: 221 8.4%
  • more than 50

    Votes: 67 2.5%
  • more than 100

    Votes: 31 1.2%
  • more than 200

    Votes: 24 0.9%
  • more than 250

    Votes: 4 0.2%
  • more than 300

    Votes: 4 0.2%
  • more than 400

    Votes: 1 0.0%
  • more than 500

    Votes: 1 0.0%
  • more than 600

    Votes: 8 0.3%

  • Total voters
    2,646
Because there are less?
Yep. Nike biannual, Apple quarterly. Save Black/White, I’ve gone clear. 27 swooshy sport bands versus 87 sprt bands. 18 sport loops versus 39 sport loops.

My contribution for today...now that I have been blessed to get both orange sport loops from silhouette II, papaya kinda feels like someone fell asleep on their keyboard when canary yellow was pulled up...

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Yep. Nike biannual, Apple quarterly. Save Black/White, I’ve gone clear. 27 swooshy sport bands versus 87 sprt bands. 18 sport loops versus 39 sport loops.

My contribution for today...now that I have been blessed to get both orange sport loops from silhouette II, papaya kinda feels like someone fell asleep on their keyboard when canary yellow was pulled up...

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Got red G1 Loop. Papaya is next. Gonna hopefully grab all the bright single tone “in your face” loops.
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Only difference is Ultra Violet you can actually find.

I have neither. Gonna go cry in the time out corner for the next 3 hours.
 
Another night/day comparison, Black Check woven nylon:
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sport band of the day: lavender grey
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Do you put them through a washing machine or hand wash with detergent?
Hand wash, with the assistance of an electric toothbrush with soft bristles (i.e. softer than the nylon of the band). I may have some before and after shots if people are that interested in Band Laundry 😜
This week I cleaned a 2017 pride woven in the washing washing machine on delicate. Let air dry and it looks new. It was a recent purchase from Mercari and wanted it clean before I wore it.
To echo what @EmmaLouWho said, I’ve also had success with woven nylons in the washing machine in a garment bag on cold in the delicate cycle. Not so much with sport bands.
 
It’s not plain white. It’s a collage of my Ultraviolet, Celestial Teal, Spicy Orange, hopes, dreams, aspirations, and Black/Lime Blast.
If you were wearing a 38/40mm watch, I think I could help you get Celestial teal, Spicy Orange and Black/Lime Blast. But it’s just hopes, dreams, aspirations...
 
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It’s Regular Sport Bands and Nylons for me, although that last few days have seen me unable to resist a couple of Nike Sport Band bargains...

I don’t really get on with loops.

I’d be interested to know what percentage of Nike band fans actually have Nike watches.
It’s funny...i only got it because it was $30 off from Nike dot com and because they weren’t yet selling the midnight fog loop stand-alone...I immediately noticed the special Volt color option at the top of the wheel on Apple faces but it was a whole year later when I realized the Nike faces had all the Nike colors and now I couldn’t imagine not getting a Nike watch for my next aluminum! Here are all those faces again for anyone interested:

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It’s funny...i only got it because it was $30 off from Nike dot com and because they weren’t yet selling the midnight fog loop stand-alone...I immediately noticed the special Volt color option at the top of the wheel on Apple faces but it was a whole year later when I realized the Nike faces had all the Nike colors and now I couldn’t imagine not getting a Nike watch for my next aluminum! Here are all those faces again for anyone interested:

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I wish Apple would make the Nike colors available to every watch type. I completely understand making the Nike faces exclusive to the Nike watches. But, you have been able to buy Nike bands separately for several years now and it is really annoying to not be able to match the watch face color exactly unless you have a Nike watch.
 
It’s funny...i only got it because it was $30 off from Nike dot com and because they weren’t yet selling the midnight fog loop stand-alone...I immediately noticed the special Volt color option at the top of the wheel on Apple faces but it was a whole year later when I realized the Nike faces had all the Nike colors and now I couldn’t imagine not getting a Nike watch for my next aluminum! Here are all those faces again for anyone interested:

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Stole your Light Bone face.

NikeLab vibes
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I wish Apple would make the Nike colors available to every watch type. I completely understand making the Nike faces exclusive to the Nike watches. But, you have been able to buy Nike bands separately for several years now and it is really annoying to not be able to match the watch face color exactly unless you have a Nike watch.
I especially drive myself crazy going back and forth between the two Apple colors that are close but not quite on point for both Pink and Lime Blast...
 
I wish Apple would make the Nike colors available to every watch type. I completely understand making the Nike faces exclusive to the Nike watches. But, you have been able to buy Nike bands separately for several years now and it is really annoying to not be able to match the watch face color exactly unless you have a Nike watch.

I totally agree!

With face sharing coming in Watch OS7 think they will allow it to be shared with non-Nike watch owners?
 
I totally agree!

With face sharing coming in Watch OS7 think they will allow it to be shared with non-Nike watch owners?
No, even if they wanted to and they don’t because they don’t wanna hamper Nike sales, the Nike ships with a different version of the OS, so it wouldn’t be technically possible, I don’t think. Luckily they didn’t fork the OS so deeply that Mike couldn’t get a Light Bone’n in on this fine hump day once I consented to his reacharound
 
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