Looks like Sport Loops were planned for this year’s Olympics (from l0vetodream)...
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Makes sense I guess, just not sure why they are being dumped. Could be they somehow follow the 2-tone theme as was the norm at the time themOlympics were scheduled? Hard to know from that one pic of ¼ of a band.
OMG. I didn't know this app (or this thread) existed! I currently own around 20 (edit: so I went and counted them) 25* bands, and they keep coming! I'm so glad I can have them nicely listed in this beautiful app!
Thank you so much for sharing this with the community. 5 stars!
*26 when I receive my Nike S6 on Monday.
Welcome. We were all like you once*. My advice would be leave now before you get sucked in. Of,course you won’t and it that case; awesome, another bandaholic!
*I found this thread less than a year ago with 26 bands, I now have 99 and that’s only because I only called Sport Bands (and the Nike’s versions), and it doesn’t include my wife’s smaller size bands. She has 77 now, up from around 20. I’m comfortable with either one of us having a band and counting it as collected, but we do have a number of doubles in colours we both wanted.
What are peoples' thoughts on toasted coffee/caramel with space grey?
My personal take on Toasted Coffee / Caramel is a hard no. It’s too close to skin tone for me (and I say that with almost pure Scottish heritage, so my natural skin tone is pale blue). I bought it as it was cheap in box locally so with cheap shipping - I just realised a legitimate yoink in fact - I pretty much grab anything like that as it’s so unusual. I wore it once and hated it. YMMV of course and I think if you can look past the buckle being silver it would be fine with SG.
First off, welcome!
You’re probably going to get a range of opinions as to whether that band is worth that money. For me personally, no. I only pick up bands that I would actually wear and wouldn’t pay extra for a marking nobody can see when the band is on my wrist. But, there are plenty of serious band collectors who frequent this thread who probably have a different point of view.
At the end of the day, only you can decide if the band is worth that money to you or not. Do be careful here, as there are some real pushers in this thread! You may find your collection unexpectedly doubling in size in no time! 😂
While I’m probably in the camp described above with Sport Bands now, I have resisted getting the Edition ones that are the same colour as a regular band save the inside until now (and now I’m buying the watches
and bands for those).
That said the Hermes orange is
not the same as any regular orange SB, so the inside of the pin is not the only way to tell it’s a Hermes. There was a discussion some months back in which I maintained I believe Apple are commercially prevented (both by contract and to avoid cannibalising sales of the premium Hermes Watch) from making a regular orange that is close to the Hermes shade so long as their partnership continues - and possibly for some time after if Hermes is smart.
Lastly it is, at least to my eye, the purest orange available. It isn’t
always the orange I choose when I wear orange, because I will match the shade to something else I am wearing. If you want pure orange, or only one orange in your collection IMO it’s the one to have though; all the others tend toward the pink or the red or the yellow.
Hey !
I have just a small questions for you, the experts !
I have bought the following orange band for 12 bucks, and I will receive it early next week. Which color is it ? Standard Orange ? Let me know your thoughts .
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I will also bow to the godlike knowledge of the Great Dop, however
@mikedop - could you explain what I’m looking for in the old vs new lug design, and I’m just not,seeing the difference
Thank you for your inputs. I do not want to take the risk to have another ”peach variant” in my collection... I already have it. I’ve said to the seller to ship the band on the left (at first sight it should be hibiscus I hope)
It’s really had to say from that photo. As Mr Bands pointed out the colour is pretty saturated. Given how disappointed I was with it IRL when it arrived though, I could even go Dragon Fruit for that one second from the right. That said my Hibiscus is still on the way so I have yet to see it IRL, and the pink to orange spectrum is my wife’s domain so I’m not super familiar with the subtleties.
