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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
Best Buy finally has the new bands listed! What’s weird is most are saying they are sold out. 🧐 Even Spruce Aura which honestly didn’t seem like it would be a popular color. I wonder if they are just place holders and the stock status will change within a day or so. They didn’t have them listed at all earlier in the week.
Best Buy new bands
glad you posted this, ive been waiting weeks to use my bestbuy giftcards to get the nike bands, disappointed that only 1 of 3 was available, guess ill just keep checking.
 
Went with the Gray/Black ceramic sport band today. Love this shade.
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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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But the S/M side doesn’t exist for the Hermès 44mm 🤨🤔🧐😱
 
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But the S/M side doesn’t exist for the Hermès 44mm 🤨🤔🧐😱
it does, but was never a retail option. Factory rejects or demo or prototype bands, maybe.

 
I've just taken a gamble on a Stainless Link bracelet from CEX here in the UK. Grade B for £75.

Figured the outcome will either be:

1) It's scuffed and a bit dirty but good enough to polish back to life
2) It'll be fake
3) It'll be scuffed well beyond help and not a grade B
4) It'll not even ship (I've had that happen before trying to order a SB link)

My success with CEX has varied drastically in the past from 'as new' Milanese to filthy 'Grade A' sport bands.

Take your bets now...!
So an interesting update. My order remained at the Stock Being Picked status or whatever it’s called, until this morning! It’s finally now changed to dispatched.

HOWEVER

Whilst being in stock picking limbo, I happened to have a look on FB marketplace and to my total amazement, someone was advertising a Link bracelet for £30! I messaged and asked for photos of the clasp, end of lugs and reverse side of the links to confirm it was genuine - it was.

So a 2 hour round trip this morning was had to go collect. All 12 removable links present and correct as well as a fair few surface marks. Did a quick 10 minute cleaning job this afternoon as this is the result.

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Still can’t quite believe it was only £30! The guy knew it was a massive bargain but said it had sat unworn in a box for months, and so it went in to a pile of things around the house he wanted to price to sell fast. Consider me rather pleased!

Just need to return the one I got from CEX now, which might be a problem if the U.K. goes in to lockdown next week 🙈
 
So an interesting update. My order remained at the Stock Being Picked status or whatever it’s called, until this morning! It’s finally now changed to dispatched.

HOWEVER

Whilst being in stock picking limbo, I happened to have a look on FB marketplace and to my total amazement, someone was advertising a Link bracelet for £30! I messaged and asked for photos of the clasp, end of lugs and reverse side of the links to confirm it was genuine - it was.

So a 2 hour round trip this morning was had to go collect. All 12 removable links present and correct as well as a fair few surface marks. Did a quick 10 minute cleaning job this afternoon as this is the result.

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Still can’t quite believe it was only £30! The guy knew it was a massive bargain but said it had sat unworn in a box for months, and so it went in to a pile of things around the house he wanted to price to sell fast. Consider me rather pleased!

Just need to return the one I got from CEX now, which might be a problem if the U.K. goes in to lockdown next week 🙈

Really lucky but very good for you man!!
 
So an interesting update. My order remained at the Stock Being Picked status or whatever it’s called, until this morning! It’s finally now changed to dispatched.

HOWEVER

Whilst being in stock picking limbo, I happened to have a look on FB marketplace and to my total amazement, someone was advertising a Link bracelet for £30! I messaged and asked for photos of the clasp, end of lugs and reverse side of the links to confirm it was genuine - it was.

So a 2 hour round trip this morning was had to go collect. All 12 removable links present and correct as well as a fair few surface marks. Did a quick 10 minute cleaning job this afternoon as this is the result.

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Still can’t quite believe it was only £30! The guy knew it was a massive bargain but said it had sat unworn in a box for months, and so it went in to a pile of things around the house he wanted to price to sell fast. Consider me rather pleased!

Just need to return the one I got from CEX now, which might be a problem if the U.K. goes in to lockdown next week 🙈
That looks REALLY NICE! I want one of these bands, just haven't pulled the trigger to purchase one, yet...
Just checked the Apple shop, that thing cost $449! Flipping heck, I could buy a new Invicta (I have a few of these), for that price...
 
That looks REALLY NICE! I want one of these bands, just haven't pulled the trigger to purchase one, yet...
Just checked the Apple shop, that thing cost $449! Flipping heck, I could buy a new Invicta (I have a few of these), for that price...
I've been secretly envious of the SS version ever since I got my SB S3. I have the SB link but the regular SS version is far more of a looker to my eye!

Check out Chargerstore on eBay, he has some excellent deals on them too!
 
So an interesting update. My order remained at the Stock Being Picked status or whatever it’s called, until this morning! It’s finally now changed to dispatched.

HOWEVER

Whilst being in stock picking limbo, I happened to have a look on FB marketplace and to my total amazement, someone was advertising a Link bracelet for £30! I messaged and asked for photos of the clasp, end of lugs and reverse side of the links to confirm it was genuine - it was.

So a 2 hour round trip this morning was had to go collect. All 12 removable links present and correct as well as a fair few surface marks. Did a quick 10 minute cleaning job this afternoon as this is the result.

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Still can’t quite believe it was only £30! The guy knew it was a massive bargain but said it had sat unworn in a box for months, and so it went in to a pile of things around the house he wanted to price to sell fast. Consider me rather pleased!

Just need to return the one I got from CEX now, which might be a problem if the U.K. goes in to lockdown next week 🙈
Nicely done! Even CeX themselves would have given the seller £35 for it!
 
Am in a situation where I can only choose to purchase two out of three woven nylons, orange check, berry check and dark olive check. Cannot decide which one to give up on.
 
What? How come? Apple has never sell that that I know . Please explain me.
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it does, but was never a retail option. Factory rejects or demo or prototype bands, maybe.

 
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it does, but was never a retail option. Factory rejects or demo or prototype bands, maybe.


Or maybe very high quality knock offs?
Do we reeeeeeeaaaally know for certain that these parts are original Hermès?
 
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Or maybe very high quality knock offs?
Do we reeeeeeeaaaally know for certain that these parts are original Hermès?
This seller only deals with genuine bands. Many of us on here have purchased many times. Additionally if this was a knock off, it wouldn’t be an exact colour match 🙂
 
This seller only deals with genuine bands. Many of us on here have purchased many times. Additionally if this was a knock off, it wouldn’t be an exact colour match 🙂
The fact that it is an exact colour match is still no proof for me that it’s genuine.
 
The fact that it is an exact colour match is still no proof for me that it’s genuine.
No. But the fact it is identical in every conceivable way to all of my other genuine bands, from the material it’s made of (which is obvious from the feel), to size to hole positions to lug colours and is an ‘exact’ colour match on top of that, is pretty conclusive.

To each their own. But fakes aren’t so good they’re are indistinguishable in every conceivable way.
 
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