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How many Apple Watch bands do you own? OEM only.

  • One band only.

    Votes: 436 16.5%
  • 2/4

    Votes: 964 36.5%
  • 5/8

    Votes: 525 19.9%
  • 9/12

    Votes: 178 6.7%
  • 12/15

    Votes: 104 3.9%
  • 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
    2,644
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🇿🇦 South African Olympic woven nylon
 
Starlight Braided is just as essential as expected. The first neutral Braided (discounting charcoal as I don't really like black-ish bands), I'm sure this will be in my heavy rotation. It's a little lighter than the eponimous regular Solo. Also pictured: White Solo (old version).

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Nice! Think i'm gonna order this color for my wife. The only concern with the starlight braided is how well it will do with dirt and wear over time. She had the light green color last year for just a week and it looked dirty within days. We returned it.
 
Nice! Think i'm gonna order this color for my wife. The only concern with the starlight braided is how well it will do with dirt and wear over time. She had the light green color last year for just a week and it looked dirty within days. We returned it.

That one is easy: she just needs to do like us other band-a-holics and get enough bands that each individual one gets worn so rarely that it‘ll never get dirty. Problem solved. 😉
 
That one is easy: she just needs to do like us other band-a-holics and get enough bands that each individual one gets worn so rarely that it‘ll never get dirty. Problem solved. 😉
Or do the San Francisco tech mogul method where they think it’s cheaper to just buy new socks and underwear rather than wash the old ones.
 
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What's the secret sauce to minimize shine on the sport bands. I literally wash/rinse them when I'm done wearing it for the day...but eventually u do get some shine (mainly where the strap goes into the loop).
 
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What's the secret sauce to minimize shine on the sport bands. I literally wash/rinse them when I'm done wearing it for the day...but eventually u do get some shine (mainly where the strap goes into the loop).
Dirt Eraser Sponge (Melamine). Carefully used it will remove the shine. Works for me in 95% of the old and abused bands.
 
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Dirt Eraser Sponge (Melamine). Carefully used it will remove the shine. Works for me in 95% of the old and abused bands.

Speaking of which, is it my impression or darker sport bands are the ones to get shiny faster?
Light colors seem to hold up much better over time...
 
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