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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 36.4%
  • 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: 68 2.6%
  • more than 100

    Votes: 31 1.2%
  • more than 200

    Votes: 24 0.9%
  • more than 250

    Votes: 5 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
    2,649
My Dragon Fruit from Chargie has arrived. Gave it a good scrub just in case. Was advertised as like new condition and I can’t disagree, I see no wear. All three pieces but no box. Not quite a yoink at $50 but I’m happy with it.

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Mine came and was like new and had that soft touch feeling if you get me
 
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I feel when you're going to get the next stimulus check, you'll blow it all on Apple bands 😂
Stimulus check will go to the dentist who will be fixing four teeth...
I don’t know the color of the last loop I bought other than I don’t have it... this is my spending allowance I use.
 

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I so far haven’t regretted selling any of my bands. When you know, you know.
Yup, agreed - but OP is talking of selling bands he likes because they don't look good on white ceramic, which is different to selling bands you don't like / want to wear.
The Noir color on the main Hermes face is almost too stealth
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Hang on.... SBSS Hermes? You have an AOD Hermes now then!
 
Here you go @athousandbands: Left to right Vintage Rose — Flamingo — Peach. I really do think you misnamed that thing you posted. If I had to guess, it looks like what I would imagine Light Pink to look like (I never had/saw that one).

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My wife has the full set. We’re heading to work now but if nobody beats me to it I’ll try to remember to do a pink fam shot later.
Recreated as best as I can with the addition of Light Pink - I think you were bang on @the future when you called @athousandbands Flamingo as LP. This was a tricky colour balance to get right per my eye even using ProRAW and editing.
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Recreated as best as I can with the addition of Light Pink - I think you were bang on @the future when you called @athousandbands Flamingo as LP. This was a tricky colour balance to get right per my eye even using ProRAW and editing.
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I’m 10,000% what I have is flamingo. I bought them both sizes retail. Dop’s Vintage Rose arrived before the holiday yesterday and is lighter than my so-called mystery band. I thought faerie settled it and defended my honor when she pointed out the perception issue when next to peach.

Yours is also kind of giving me that same illusion where nearby Peach makes Flam lose its orange. I’ll admit I was being somewhat facetious/professor-y when I was inviting Future to show us his Flam, which I knew wasn’t forthcoming.

Also look at my connectors, they match, whilst LP and VR have contrasting connectors.
 

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Yup, agreed - but OP is talking of selling bands he likes because they don't look good on white ceramic, which is different to selling bands you don't like / want to wear.

Hang on.... SBSS Hermes? You have an AOD Hermes now then!
I got it for the double tour that came with it for the low low. It and my 40mm SBSS are making a long trip to a farm up north, to be replaced by an SBTi I found for 350. About to be SBSS-free for the first time since right before I grabbed an s2 sbss in a summer best buy sale. Blame @JBlass421
 
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I’m 10,000% what I have is flamingo. I bought them both sizes retail. Dop’s Vintage Rose arrived before the holiday yesterday and is lighter than my so-called mystery band. I thought faerie settled it and defended my honor when she pointed out the perception issue when next to peach.

Yours is also kind of giving me that same illusion where nearby Peach makes Flam lose its orange. I’ll admit I was being somewhat facetious/professor-y when I was inviting Future to show us his Flam, which I knew wasn’t forthcoming.

Also look at my connectors, they match, whilst LP and VR have contrasting connectors.
You’re right about the connectors, and if you bought it retail then that’s pretty conclusive! I thought you were genuinely not sure, but then given your 5 to go sig there wasn’t much room to have it wrong.

I don’t see Flamin’ go as I like to think of it showing nearly as pink as your shot made it look, but it has to be.
I got it for the double tour that came with it for the low low. It and my 40mm SBSS are making a long trip to a farm up north, to be replaced by an SBTi I found for 350. About to be SBSS-free for the first time since s2
Nicely done. As I’ve said before I don’t think SBSS is smart enough for the Hermes faces, but I’d still scoop one up and replace my SBSS vanilla S5 at the right price. Ditto for the SS. I haven’t seen Ti IRL in either colour, but SBTi doesn’t speak to me in the photos I’ve seen. Your mission will be to change my mind then, when it arrives.

Natural Ti will be my next case material if I have fallen down that rabbit hole like I fear I have, and I might go S7 Hermes SS if I feel S7 is worth an upgrade, and either we are deemed worthy of Hermes here in NZ once more (why not Apple, you even offered us the S0 Edition in real gold?) or a weekender to Aus is something we can do again by September.
 
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Does anyone have Marine Green sports band to show? Even better if it’s compared to beryl or similar
Thanks
I thought I had a family Green shot in my photo library, but apparently not. I won’t have time to do it before it gets too dark this evening, but if nobody gets there first I’ll do it tomorrow. I’d like to do it on a white ceramic, but mine seems to be having a holiday in Botany, Aus, so I don’t expect to see it until Wednesday at best now.
 
You’re right about the connectors, and if you bought it retail then that’s pretty conclusive! I thought you were genuinely not sure, but then given your 5 to go sig there wasn’t much room to have it wrong.

I don’t see Flamin’ go as I like to think of it showing nearly as pink as your shot made it look, but it has to be.

Nicely done. As I’ve said before I don’t think SBSS is smart enough for the Hermes faces, but I’d still scoop one up and replace my SBSS vanilla S5 at the right price. Ditto for the SS. I haven’t seen Ti IRL in either colour, but SBTi doesn’t speak to me in the photos I’ve seen. Your mission will be to change my mind then, when it arrives.

Natural Ti will be my next case material if I have fallen down that rabbit hole like I fear I have, and I might go S7 Hermes SS if I feel S7 is worth an upgrade, and either we are deemed worthy of Hermes here in NZ once more (why not Apple, you even offered us the S0 Edition in real gold?) or a weekender to Aus is something we can do again by September.
I wish I could say ProRAW and my fledgling use of it was to blame here, but my unedited looks even more pink. At the end of the day, the post meant to compare it to peach and I think we’ve covered that a few times over haha. The more band colors you have in the shot, the harder it is to make them all look right. Now I‘m curious what analog color film would make them all look like.

Bf and I went to the store around the S5 launch before ordering his natural Ti and I distinctly remember the SBTi being too close to SGA and truly only shining when we put the link bracelet on it, perhaps matching it better than the SBSS. My main impetus here is to have something for my two Space Black Modern buckles and my 38mm Link Bracelet. So now the challenge is taking photos like Blass that make it shine and have more complexity than the SGA. At 355 mint and 65 for the band separately, the similarity to aluminum is way more forgivable. Plus I just want something with DLC for workouts and maybe sleep.
 
Bf and I went to the store around the S5 launch before ordering his natural Ti and I distinctly remember the SBTi being too close to SGA and truly only shining when we put the link bracelet on it, perhaps matching it better than the SBSS. My main impetus here is to have something for my two Space Black Modern buckles and my 38mm Link Bracelet. So now the challenge is taking photos like Blass that make it shine and have more complexity than the SGA. At 355 mint and 65 for the band separately, the similarity to aluminum is way more forgivable. Plus I just want something with DLC for workouts and maybe sleep.
That makes sense - I didn’t want to say it looks like SGA as I haven’t seen it IRL, but in pics it does to my eye. Sometimes natural Ti looks like Alu also, but I am familiar with what natural Ti looks like on other things than AW cases and can appreciate it will be very different to silver Alu in person.

I don’t have anything in leather or steel for a black body - I’m not risking the black Milanese with the possibility of scratching, and I’ve never bothered with a black Link Bracelet (yet). I do wear my OG Black LeLoo with my SBSS (and love that look), but I’m not excited to get into black lugs on more traditional leathers.

Keen to see your shots and on board with your thinking all round, though I’d probably have hung onto the SBSS Hermes myself (in addition). What is the limit of paired Watches one phone can support? I know you’ve hit it.
 
Guys I need your help. I am looking for Blue Gen 1 and are talking to two sellers who have no idea what is which. Will anyone be able to tell if either or even both of these are blue Gen 1?


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