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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
That’s a nice bit of band furniture... there could be a market for those!

I'm thinking about it actually. Hoping to get a table saw for black Friday or boxing day, in which case I definitely will. I don't have a cnc machine so it's all hand cut with a router.
There are actually services that will take your CAD design and input it into a CNC machine and ship you the finished part. Sort of like 3D printing services. Don’t know how common the wood CNC services are though, but it’s still worth checking out!
 
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A care package arrived from a dear forum pal; yet to be opened. More on this later, for sure!

In other news...

Here we have it, folks.. The gen 1 family:
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For this next one, I'd like to direct some appreciation to @PurBle for convincing me to give Cyprus a chance. It is fantastic. It is indeed dark, but it looks very nice in person. While it is very much one of your classic less-than-photogenic bands, I must say: if you want a deep, rich green.. go for it.

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Those reds are so festive!! And the green looks fantastic. Cyprus is one of my faves.
 
So I’ve decided to trim my band collection down to the bands I really and truly love and wear a lot. Here is what that looks like, and yes, Cyprus made the cut! From L to R, OG yellow, product red (last years), Nike pride, 2020 pride, white, concrete, stone, turquoise, deep navy, black, uv and Cyprus. Not shown is delft which is on my wrist. Still a lot of bands compared to some - I don’t think I could ever fall into the 2-4 category but a lot fewer than before!

Edit: oh and on top are black classic buckle, summit white and neon pink D4734060-F553-4B96-A7ED-B3355E1DF714.jpeg
 
There are actually services that will take your CAD design and input it into a CNC machine and ship you the finished part. Sort of like 3D printing services. Don’t know how common the wood CNC services are though, but it’s still worth checking out!
We have a cnc at the local maker shop, but they're closed because of Covid unfortunately. Also I've tried designing for a cnc before and the software still baffles me a bit. I'm more of a putter about the shop and mutter at wood, vaguely following a poorly drawn sketch on a post-it note type. But it's a fun hobby that keeps me busy and I think these will look great when they're done. My wife said 'there's nine band spots, that's where you're stopping?" .......
 
So I’ve decided to trim my band collection down to the bands I really and truly love and wear a lot. Here is what that looks like, and yes, Cyprus made the cut! From L to R, OG yellow, product red (last years), Nike pride, 2020 pride, white, concrete, stone, turquoise, deep navy, black, uv and Cyprus. Not shown is delft which is on my wrist. Still a lot of bands compared to some - I don’t think I could ever fall into the 2-4 category but a lot fewer than before!

Edit: oh and on top are black classic buckle, summit white and neon pink View attachment 976130
Great collection! I totally agree...only want to keep what I truly love! Once I sell pollen it will be a collection of 5 sport bands and 5 Nike sport bands. I’m good with that!
 
Band Xmas here for me today. Received the sunset leather loop from chargerstore and the S/M piece of the Hermes sport band from New Zealand at the same time. Both took 4 weeks to get here.

Sunset leather loop - Box was damaged but that was in the item description. Band itself is in great condition with some minor staining around the edges and where the loop goes through. Overall very happy that I’m got this sought after leather loop.
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Hermes sport band S/M piece. I have the 44mm Hermes S6 and never used the sport band as the M/L piece was too big for me. I got this S/M piece off another member here who doesn’t wear it so now I can finally enjoy the beautiful Hermes orange sport band!
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Band Xmas here for me today. Received the sunset leather loop from chargerstore and the S/M piece of the Hermes sport band from New Zealand at the same time. Both took 4 weeks to get here.

Sunset leather loop - Box was damaged but that was in the item description. Band itself is in great condition with some minor staining around the edges and where the loop goes through. Overall very happy that I’m got this sought after leather loop.
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Hermes sport band S/M piece. I have the 44mm Hermes S6 and never used the sport band as the M/L piece was too big for me. I got this S/M piece off another member here who doesn’t wear it so now I can finally enjoy the beautiful Hermes orange sport band!
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This was a nice surprise. I grabbed a sealed box Midnight Blue from eBay for no other reason than it was £20 shipped. When it arrived I was disappointed it looked virtually the same indoors as my Black Gen1&2 and Ceramic Grey/black. However upon wearing it today I really appreciate the shade of blue and it’s no longer a regret purchase 😅

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This was a nice surprise. I grabbed a sealed box Midnight Blue from eBay for no other reason than it was £20 shipped. When it arrived I was disappointed it looked virtually the same indoors as my Black Gen1&2 and Ceramic Grey/black. However upon wearing it today I really appreciate the shade of blue and it’s no longer a regret purchase 😅

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Kind of sad that apple stopped selling them. Now that I have the blue watch, I’ve been wanting to grab one.
 
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