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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
Woah woah woah how did I miss this? @choreographics has curated a collection of Halloween-y bands!
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I wish I have these kind of deals locally. No retail store sells past season bands for cheap, even people looking to offload their bundled bands try to sell them close to MSRP.
I wanna have local stores like that. What’s the name of that local store? Here I can only find watch bands in Apple store, bestbuy and that’s it.
Any other suggestion where I can find good deals in store here in Seattle , Washington?
In countries where there are no Apple stores, there are Apple premium reseller (APR) or Apple authorized reseller (AAR) retail stores that can set their own prices for goods. One of these stores in my country is running a 15th birthday sale.
 
The International Collection isn’t worth more than $500 for a full set.

Sure, tell us about prices of 1 of 200 sets, we're listening

@iChernov definitely overpaid for his full international collection, but that’s by my standards.

I regretted many times already, that I answered your questions in PM. Now you're discussing my private deals in public and assess - what I overpaid and what not. That is unacceptable.
 
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I purchased a Spruce Fog/Vintage Lichen loose band (S/M and Pin strap only) from Chargerstore last month: https://www.ebay.com/itm/402274362378

It looks authentic with the laser engravings, and everything else. However, I just came across a boxed, retail band and it looks a little bit different. As you can see in the attached photos, the lug pins on each strap from the Chargerstore order are the same color as the band (gray/green). On the retail band, they are black. I also noticed that the shading is slightly different on each one (the retail unit is a bit more green). Did these come in two different variations?

You'll notice that Chargerstore is using a photo with the black lug pins on the ad, but that's not what I got from him. I just sent him a message to see what he says, but I wanted to check in with the experts here as well.
 

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I purchased a Spruce Fog/Vintage Lichen loose band (S/M and Pin strap only) from Chargerstore last month: https://www.ebay.com/itm/402274362378

It looks authentic with the laser engravings, and everything else. However, I just came across a boxed, retail band and it looks a little bit different. As you can see in the attached photos, the lug pins on each strap from the Chargerstore order are the same color as the band (gray/green). On the retail band, they are black. I also noticed that the shading is slightly different on each one (the retail unit is a bit more green). Did these come in two different variations?

You'll notice that Chargerstore is using a photo with the black lug pins on the ad, but that's not what I got from him. I just sent him a message to see what he says, but I wanted to check in with the experts here as well.
If I got color-matched Nike lug pins, I would feel cool and special haha. Makes you wonder why Apple doesn’t go to the trouble of treating them like their own sport bands and solo loops, instead just assigning gray or black pins.

Given all the non-canon pin bands he sells on ‘bay and off, not to mention the unmarked Light Bone, it seems like you got a factory reject that was tossed aside for being too *good*. I’ve never had to contact him after receiving a wrong band or whatever but everybody on here except for one person seems to been made whole.

And the shading does look different. Is the retail one brand new? Again, if it is slightly different, I would find it cooler.
 
Titanium band for 25% the cost of the watch. What a bargain! $189.99


I guess that’s the same one as this..... and guess who ‘yoinked’ it???

 
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Once I had this watch. It was really nice, and the finish is beautiful. The only problem for me is that I didn’t like how is was matching with other bands. To my taste, it wasn’t matching good enough, but with its original sport band


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This is with Hermès:

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And with Nike:

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I agree that because it’s not a neutral color, like aluminum or space gray, it will match less bands. But I expect it to match enough bands to vary enough.
 
Today’s band from the new stuff — the diver blue leather loop.

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This is my second-biggest surprise of the new collection, after the existence of the solo loops, of course. When they showed off the leather link on the webcast, I figured, ”Well, rest in peace, Leather Loop.” And then the Diver Blue showed up. Go figure.

In case anyone’s curious, here’s the “dark blue”-leaning leather loops for comparison:

Left to right: Bright Blue, Midnight Blue, Cosmos Blue, Peacock, Diver Blue

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And yes, I know Peacock is more green than blue. But I figured it fit in here with the Cosmos.

Diver is right in the middle between Cosmos and Midnight. Not that there’s much space there. But that’s pretty much right where it is.
 
Today’s band from the new stuff — the diver blue leather loop.

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This is my second-biggest surprise of the new collection, after the existence of the solo loops, of course. When they showed off the leather link on the webcast, I figured, ”Well, rest in peace, Leather Loop.” And then the Diver Blue showed up. Go figure.

In case anyone’s curious, here’s the “dark blue”-leaning leather loops for comparison:

Left to right: Bright Blue, Midnight Blue, Cosmos Blue, Peacock, Diver Blue

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And yes, I know Peacock is more green than blue. But I figured it fit in here with the Cosmos.

Diver is right in the middle between Cosmos and Midnight. Not that there’s much space there. But that’s pretty much right where it is.

Yeah I wish our 40mm Leather Link came in Diver Blue.

The Baltic Blue thats instead available looks more like a darker Peacock in other pics I’ve seen, but then again, if its named after the Baltic Sea, that sea does have a green-ish tint to it

 
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