Apple Store is showing that the 40mm California poppy leather link is only M/L while the 44mm leather link is only S/M. Definitely not confusing for someone new to Apple Watch and bands! 😂
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Every Apple Watch band Apple released. Ever.
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Great deal on 38mm black woven nylon band. Matches well with midnight aluminum 
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Violet/Plum — still my personal goat until Apple drops that yellow nike
Great deal on 38mm black woven nylon band. Matches well with midnight aluminum
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I love my woven nylon bands.
My vote gradually keeps changing .. started from one band only and now its at 9/12 bands lol and i must stop here
So, while I'm debating on the eventual need of a Charcoal BSL, this rare yoink popped up: new and boxed demo (replacement unity from Apple) of the Deep Navy solo Loop. It is a size 1, a size smaller than what I usually wear, and it is a tad too tight, but I couldn't ignore the deal: only 12 euros. And it looks gorgeous! How long do you think is it gonna take to stretch it a couple of mm?!
Modern Buckle - Garnet
Does anyone know the reason why the Modern Buckle bands were / are only available for small watches?
Does anyone know the reason why the Modern Buckle bands were / are only available for small watches?
I’d like to think it just has to do with the buckle looking weird in the larger size—it already feels kind of huge as a 41mm and I wear large only a few off the last hole—but it’s probably just the gender politics of fashion. I guess there’s also the fact that the Granada/NASA leather is seamless and pretty thin; that slightly off-kilter ratio would be intensified with the 45mm.
Apple made a prototype of the Deployant/butterfly style clasp and put in on the classic buckle leather, fwiw. I’m guessing that would have been the move for a Modern Buckle counterpart with perhaps a more masculine targeting.
I’m surprised it still sells well enough to have survived into the link era when the loop finally got killed off. I love Garnet, as well. Perhaps I can envision someone who wants some elegance to set them apart from the default sport band masses but not at the Hermes price level shopping all the options and getting MoBu as their primary, with scant use of a sport-style if they exercise.
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I am guessing that Apple presumed the target market for that band would be women and also presumed they mostly would purchase the smaller watch sizes.
this is super interesting. was this mentioned in this thread? where did you see this?
i used to have the modern buckle, but I actually found the classic buckle leather to be nicer. But I’m no Expert, I’m just going by aesthetics. I still wonder why apple stopped the classic buckle because I found it to be the nicest (I might be the only one who did though).
MikeDop showed me some photos I don’t think I can share (or find now). The short side looked weird just being one smooth uninterrupted piece ending in a horseshoe buckle.
My pet theory was always the people willing to spend $150 just went for the $340 Hermes.
Kumquat on Starlight is a pretty unbeatable pair. Quick shot and edit here as it’s raining. Solo loop.
and my theory is Hermes didn’t like a similar one going for 150!
I always thought it was the reverse actually. The classic buckle bands are definitely not as nice as the Hermes leather. But they are good enough that most people wanting a classic watch look were perfectly happy with the quality for $150. That ate into Hermes sales. By taking the classic buckles out of the lineup, Apple pushes people wanting that look to Hermes.
I don’t think Tim is in the business of discontinuing products that sell too well…the doctrine of good-better-best has plenty of room between the $49 and the $340. But mostly my guess is informed by the price of random third-party leather bands and the fact that people were probably not happy with what they were getting for $150, even after they had to scrap the first few generations of the mashed potato and then filleted leather.
The magnetic leather did drop to $99, after all.
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