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Every Apple Watch band Apple released. Ever.
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You don’t. I just sold my silver S2 Nike for $85 and it was well taken care of, so you can certainly do better. Or ask if they’ll knock $15 off because you’ll have to deep clean it. Worth a shot.
Well done you
Sorry - that was me. In my defence it was in reply to my post that @the future linked the marketplace post
The ceramic in the UK was £ to $ the same price as I recall.
Would not or could not... 😄 That thing is probably crusted together in there real good!
No that’s the beauty part, the vinegar never sticks around (except in leather). All my teammates at the hockey rink would make fun of it conceptually for leading to Italian sub smells but they didn’t know!
I feel the same but I’ve had the s2 ceramic and it was awesome. Biggest problem is matching bands, stainless is way more versatile but we’ll see
Hm... Plum Sport band in 40mm is in stock in Germany... should I get one “just in case”? 🧐
And one more thing - is any forum member from CANADA here? Some small help needed with local Apple... 😌
That is the cleanest of the photos... I kinda want to buy it just to clean it and use the watch when I know I am about to get nasty.... woodworking, painting, tank cleaning... all the nasty jobs
Band delivery day for me too. Got a Blue Horizon and an Ocean Blue to go along with the Blue Cobalt and Alaskan Blue I had already picked up. Now I just have to decide which to keep. Leaning toward Ocean right now, though it might be a bit too purple.
Comparison shot. Left to right is Horizon, Cobalt, Ocean, Alaskan with my Celestial Teal up top.
Comparison shot. Left to right is Horizon, Cobalt, Ocean, Alaskan with my Celestial Teal up top.
Ocean is nice but it’s too close to my other blues, so I sold it off to help pay for my next watch 😄
Yeah I am actually really surprised at just how close all 4 of these blues are to each other!
I wonder if the S5 ceramic has suddenly become collectable in wider context, given there are five of us on here openly buying / seeking one right now (and therefore probably others who haven't mentioned it).
I was looking fairly actively on eBay for a couple of months after it was discontinued, but Euro ones that work with NZ LTE bands were always very expensive and I lost enthusiasm. I did consider buying a US one as I am almost certainly not going to activate the LTE connection, and they seemed to be a lot more realistically priced, but even they were a bit high given the resale if I wanted to move it on would be a lot lower if the LTE wouldn't work or it needed to be shipped back to North America. My thinking was that after some time demand might fall off and prices soften, but perhaps that isn't the case. I was also aware that probably fewer would come up for sale after the rush of upgraders sold their S5 ceramic when they got their S6 replacement.
If the S7 has a ceramic option that will hit S5 ceramic values quite hard I expect, but if it doesn't, and if the S7 doesn't have a killer upgrade feature (and I'm not sure what that could be, beyond massive battery life or case size (thinness) improvements), then perhaps they will maintain or even rise.
Someone suggested that it might be S8 before we see ceramic back again (if then), and I tend to think that is more likely than a ceramic S7. The S7 won't need a fancy case material to tempt people as the case itself will be a new design that should be enough for anyone who is looking for a different case. The S8 might need a bump if it is an "S year" after the S7, so that would be the time to bring ceramic back if it's coming.
I think it’s just about upgrading. Series 6 comes out, so S5 ceramic owners are upgrading. (When you have that kind of money, yearly upgrades don’t seem too far-fetched.) Ive only seen maybe 3 or 4 for sale here, but that’s still 3 or 4 more than a month or two ago.
I’m in the same boat. Well, a similar boat, at least. Same make and model but a different color?
I want LTE as a feature, even though I know for sure I’m not going to activate it.
S7 is the big redesign year, right? So we might not see another ceramic until the S8, because Apple has been a year behind on ceramics, I guess just to make sure the new case isn’t too fragile or something. But even if they do introduce a ceramic, S5 editions will still be modern enough to have value.
Exactly my thoughts.
I find Ocean a bit "meh". It's a great journeyman blue, and I do wear it on occasion, but it holds zero excitement for me. I like the depth of Horizon (and Deep Navy), the strength of Royal (though weirdly not so much Surf), and I really love Sky, Mist and Lilac (though I can't find anything to wear Lilac - or Cornflower - with).
I'm blue complete, so I'm glad I have it. Funnily enough it was picking up Ocean and Horizon together (on the recommendation of someone on here - sorry, but I forget who for a proper name-check) that tipped me over into thinking I might as well go for blue complete - and being blue (and yellow) complete was what tipped me over to want to become entirely complete.
The irony is that we realised very late in the piece that my wife had Ocean Blue from when it was current. I had thought she (like me) had Cobalt in that similar darkish blue tone. If I'd known she had Ocean I'd likely only have bought Horizon, and maybe not decided to shoot for all the blues, and perhaps would be financially richer, but Sport Band poorer today.
Yes, I didn't address S5 ceramic values other than to say they'd be hit hard. Looking at what I still see S3 ceramics listing for - even S2s in some cases, look at @MostlyARMless recent experience with £151 becoming £500 - perhaps it won't be that hard.
I know it's a point of contention, but I think the single biggest improvement in the Watch since launch, other than the S4 providing much more screen real estate in a marginally bigger body and the much better new faces that brought, was AOD:
YMMV, but I don't swim, so proper WR didn't bother me much. When I exercise outside I use a dedicated cycling computer, so GPS didn't bother me much. I have activated cellular on my SS S5, but I hardly use it and might well disconnect it if that doesn't change soon, so LTE didn't bother me much. I'm fortunate enough that I don't have health issues that make cardiac monitoring of much value to me (and I still use a separate HR monitor during exercise like I did pre-AW), so ECG etc. didn't bother me much. The compass is so easily upset by the band being used (and without any way of the user being alerted to that) that I can't see anybody being bothered much by that. I haven't used the S6 features, but if I wanted Blood Oxygen monitoring I'd have bought a dedicated sensor before now, like I have for temperature and blood pressure. I have been using Autosleep for years so Apple's sleep tracking doesn't bother me at all, and in any case the S6 only has minor charging improvements to assist that over my S5, and as I have two I don't personally have battery concerns and can go 24 hours with a Watch on no problem, every day. What I do think is a big deal is the Watch being a watch, which displays the time all the time. I know there are people who have AOD and turn it off to extend battery life however, so as I say; YMMV.
That being the case, and there being an ever diminishing pool of features of any value that can realistically be added to a watch size device, I think the S5 will compare better than the S3 when a next gen ceramic is released, so maybe values will still stay quite strong. Especially if the S7 case is not hugely different to look at.
🚨🚨Plum sport band has been restocked in both sizes! 🚨🚨
No need to apologize. You were faster! I'm sure my time will come one day
In the meantime, I finally found the SS I'd wanted, so I'm happy
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Can anyone tell me how often Pride 2016 bands pop up for sale? Trying to decide if I should snag one while I have the chance and also curious how much they typically go for (excluding those “needle in a haystack” finds that some have been fortunate to get).
$150ish is a fair price imo. They pop up once a year or so.
Thank you for your input... I might be overpaying by quite a bit if I jump on this one but it sucks because I want one so badly! There’s another one for a lower price that I’m looking at that has the 2017 loop where you tuck the strap after it’s buckled instead of the matching 2016 loop. It’s still more than $150 though. Ugh.. decisions, decisions....
