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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: 106 4.0%
  • 16/20

    Votes: 77 2.9%
  • more than 20

    Votes: 221 8.3%
  • 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
    2,647
I just looked down at the 3 blues on my dining table. Straight from the 12 Pro Max, Midnight 2 top, Deep Navy middle and Midnight 1 bottom. Difference much clearer in this lighting
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Deep Navy might now have pulled ahead and won the fall goo band competition. I have a non-sandpapered one coming for below Dop pricing and that will cinch it.
 
Just add to new band to my collection : Mist blue and walnut. Mist blue is a really great color and the iPhone don’t do it justice imo 😍.

btw when i joined this thread I had like 15 bands, now I’m at 36 and still have 3 pending, and my boyfriend is freaking out 😅
 

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Walmart has been having random and weird price drops on S6 SS models, but it’s challenging to find it in stock there. For example here’s the silver 40mm listed for $420 and the graphite 44mm listed for $450 but both are OOS. I was able to price-match it with Best Buy after few trials, even though it’s OOS and some agents refused it because of this reason, but persistence works. I actually did it twice for my watch and my wife’s 40mm.
Walmart has the 40mm Graphite 40mm on sale today for $525.00. I had to order me one. Hubby said I needed to help stimulate the economy. Nice hubby 😀😀

Now to find out if the black band on the watch is gen 1 or gen 2.
 
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As labelled - good spot as they are next to each other in my wife's storage drawer, so she considers them similar. The photo is a ProRAW I edited to get the colours looking accurate on my Mac compared with how my eye sees the bands
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Also I took one of Deep Navy versus both generations of Midnight Blue because I think there is a difference.
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Thank you very much for the pic.
I think it is closer to Pink sand isn’t it? There’s a deal where I can get the grape fruit for 20 bucks. But I’m still thinking

Also. Anyone has the comparison among Surf Blue and Deaf blue and denim blue ? Thank you very much
 
I’m behind once again. Here’s how my week is going... running through Fall 2015, which means lots of sport bands.

Wednesday - original Midnight Blue.
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Bright and sunny Thursday saw the bright and sunny original Orange.
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And finally, another sunny, but darned cold, day today for the original Product Red.
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All three are very good early sport bands, but especially the latter two are nice and bright and bold, among the many that look so nice with the ceramic.
 
As labelled - good spot as they are next to each other in my wife's storage drawer, so she considers them similar. The photo is a ProRAW I edited to get the colours looking accurate on my Mac compared with how my eye sees the bands
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Also I took one of Deep Navy versus both generations of Midnight Blue because I think there is a difference.
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I just can not see it in mine..
 
Ok.. now I am curious. The band on the left is black 38mm no box. The band on the right is 42mm but I don’t know what color this is
 

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so you guys got any cool weekend plans?

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Hadn’t worn the black sport loop in so long that a cloud of dust poofed out when I undid the Velcro.
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That’s one of three loops I have. I really don’t like the multicolour sparkles.

what happened with the quotes - they all show as post deleted for being off topic to me.
I just can not see it in mine..
Ok.. now I am curious. The band on the left is black 38mm no box. The band on the right is 42mm but I don’t know what color this is
Do they feel the same also? I find Deep Navy the hardest of all my Sport Bands whereas Midnight is much more flexible.

@mikedop beat me to it - the gray one with black pin is the unimaginatively named but awesome coloured Gray.
 
That’s one of three loops I have. I really don’t like the multicolour sparkles.
Funny you say that, because I actually really like the sprinkles.

I own 7 loops. 8 whenever spicy orange 2.0 comes.

what happened with the quotes - they all show as post deleted for being off topic to me.
The mods don’t realize this thread has evolved into its own little community, and not every post is about watch bands. If we kept it strictly on topic, we’d have like 150 pages.

Besides, they told me they allow off topic posts so long as it isn’t taking up half the thread, so I really don’t understand either.
 
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Concrete is much lighter and I don’t believe ever came with a black pin. It’s actually sometimes hard to tell Concrete from Fog if they aren’t side by side it’s so much lighter.
I knew it was not concrete as I knew the pin was the wrong color and I only had fog in the gray bands so what ever it was I knew I needed. So that is cool with me.
 
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That’s one of three loops I have. I really don’t like the multicolour sparkles.

what happened with the quotes - they all show as post deleted for being off topic to me.


Do they feel the same also? I find Deep Navy the hardest of all my Sport Bands whereas Midnight is much more flexible.

@mikedop beat me to it - the gray one with black pin is the unimaginatively named but awesome coloured Gray.
Deep navy is stiffer than midnight. I still can only tell them apart by their size. But it my be that I am half blind and need a new script in my glasses.
 
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Was fishing around for a sweater this morning and realized I have one that is a perfect match for Plum
Also got a couple of sport bands in today (Plum got me back into sport bands and my wallet is quietly sobbing over in the corner). Up first is Blue Cobalt. Nice color but a bit of a weird cross between a pure blue and a teal. Also probably more saturated than I would wear. I have an Ocean and an Alaskan on the way and I am guessing I will like one of those better.
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Are you sure the band pictured here is Blue Cobalt? In my opinion that is a much darker shade of blue
 
Also. Anyone has the comparison among Surf Blue and Deaf blue and denim blue ? Thank you very much
I added denim in, but I probably should have put it further to the left. oh well.

to my eyes, surf blue is a blue with a slight green tint (very slight) while royal blue has a slightly stronger tint towards red. Delft is much more red, pushing the whole band in a purple direction, while denim is much more pushed green.

I’d probably say Surf blue is the most “true blue” of the 4 listed here.
 

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The mods don’t realize this thread has evolved into its own little community, and not every post is about watch bands. If we kept it strictly on topic, we’d have like 150 pages.

Besides, they told me they allow off topic posts so long as it isn’t taking up half the thread, so I really don’t understand either.
Makes me curious... what where these deleted posts about then?
 
Are you sure the band pictured here is Blue Cobalt? In my opinion that is a much darker shade of blue
I can’t be 100% sure since I bought it open box. But it’s a Blue Cobalt box, the color of the band matched (roughly) the color pictured on the box, and the band is marked 42mm. I think the difference is probably lighting in the picture I posted. Here’s the band in diffuse window lighting. Seems like Blue Cobalt to me?
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I can’t be 100% sure since I bought it open box. But it’s a Blue Cobalt box, the color of the band matched (roughly) the color pictured on the box, and the band is marked 42mm. I think the difference is probably lighting in the picture I posted. Here’s the band in diffuse window lighting. Seems like Blue Cobalt to me?
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This indeed looks more like it. You keep wondering what lighting sometimes does to how a band looks.
 
Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the showstopper of a lifetime. You haven’t met him yet, for he has been locked away in the Cupertino vaults... but today, he breaks out, and shows himself live on this very stage. Give it up for the one, the only...

Space Orange Sport Loop!

There is no amount of photo manipulation that can do this orange justice. It punches like no other. An orange completely in its own level.

(Orange, Hermès, Vitamin C, & Papaya.)
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This band features a checkered pattern underneath the dark blue, almost purple breathable fibers which is similar in style to Spring/Summer 2019’s sport loops, yet the band in question is dated 2017 or earlier due to its 42mm badge and lack of a serial number.
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I am beyond happy to have received this one-of-a-kind sport loop, which makes history with being the first and only *known* prototype sport loop to have been found.
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(even out of the sun, that orange pops!)
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