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High-End 18-Karat Gold Apple Watch Could Cost Up to $1,200
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what i don't understand is that those photos were taken using iPhones...yet the photos themselves were of appalling quality
the photos i take with the iPhone are stellar...so i wonder what is up with the photos then
It is physically possible to use PVD ion plating with synthetic sapphire, such as the sapphire used in the non-sport version of the Apple Watch (since the low end Sport edition won't use sapphire).
However, you definitely would not want to. PVD ion plating doesn't make glass/etc. "harder" per se, it simply adds a scratch-resistant coating, which Apple has already been doing for years. The reason that PVD ion plating is used is because it makes it much more scratch-resistant. It appears that the PVD ion plating process used by Apple on the iPhone 6/6+ and the "Sport" version of the Apple Watch is proprietary and the exact compound coating is secret. However, I very highly doubt that it is as hard and scratch-resistant as sapphire.
Keep in mind, PVD ion plating will not help very much with shattering. It adds to the "hardness" of the material, but it doesn't prevent fracturing upon a physical impact.
Breaking new..idiots buy Apple logo watch. They should sell a rock with an Apple logo
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Now Samsung will be forced to release their sRock this year!
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Jumping the shark has jumped the shark. Happy days was a crappy show, please kill all references to it henceforth.
Man, you dint pay attention to my comment. Am talking about displays. Obviously you don't look on the tower when using it, you look on the rectangle monitor it is connected to.
Yes, because thinking a watch is feminine looking is exactly the same as having a hatred of women.
true.
except there are people who can afford to waste a few thousand on this Edition on this forum too
I saw you might be talking only about displays, but the similar form over function nature of the Mac Pro still stands.
Personally, I find yellow gold to be quite tacky. I tolerate it on connectors because it's so chemically boring that it doesn't corrode under normal conditions and still conducts very well. Gold bullion bars and coins are nice as well. It does look cool on people with dark hair and/or skin though. Could be a color hue thing... bright pink works well with silver, dark brown well with gold.
I think the "Edition" watches will be bought by the same people who currently have iPhone cases that are covered with actual diamonds. They want the iPhone because it's simple and ubiquitous yet does what a smartphone needs to do. But they also want the bragging rights of having the most expensive/outrageous thing out there. Like owning the latest Lamborghini and never driving it. I remember an iPhone app that just displayed some diamonds and cost a lot of money and people bought it like crazy because of the status symbol value.
I think the more expensive the gold Apple Watch is, the more profit it will make simply based on rich people economics.
I think the "Edition" watches will be bought by the same people who currently have iPhone cases that are covered with actual diamonds. They want the iPhone because it's simple and ubiquitous yet does what a smartphone needs to do. But they also want the bragging rights of having the most expensive/outrageous thing out there. Like owning the latest Lamborghini and never driving it. I remember an iPhone app that just displayed some diamonds and cost a lot of money and people bought it like crazy because of the status symbol value.
I think the more expensive the gold Apple Watch is, the more profit it will make simply based on rich people economics.
Yes. Giving away something free to customers and giving them an option to buy something that provides apple with very high margins, but providing lower priced options for everyone else presages the fall of apple.
18k gold is mixed with something other than gold to make it harder. 18k gold is only 75% gold. A watch collector would know that.
WATCHHe did not say 100% gold, but solid gold, as opposed to gold plated (although later he seems confused about what 18k means).
Solid gold would cost much more than $1200 if it were a real watch, but this is a mass market gadget, so who knows.
Says the guy who compared Rolex to Bose. You have no room to tell people what they can and can't reference to.
Says the guy who compared Rolex to Bose. You have no room to tell people what they can and can't reference to.
I think all the kids today are using "Nuke the fridge"
That is 1/2" thick. Not exactly svelte. Good luck getting that underneath the cuff on a long sleeve shirt.
The watch I am wearing now is .3" thick. Which is about normal for most watches, although dress watches tend to be thinner than sports watches.
Only when you get to something like a Rolex Explorer, which is an absolute monster of a watch, do you begin to approach this 0.5" thickness... I have never liked watches that large. Possibly most common Rolex (Oyster Pertpeuta) is 10.4mm thick, which makes the Apple watch a monster.
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All I see is an asking price, what is it really going for?
It is true that I'm thinking about doing this.
Ah, ok. Well, I have not got enough money to buy something like that without truly needing it but I though the design had few purposes, like better cooling etc! I may be wrong but I though I have read some reasoning somewhere!