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How often do you bang your watch face?
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I wish I didn't bang my watch face against things, but it's inevitable. I'm very careful, but as I said, I tend to bump it up against something at least 3-4 times a week. No marks so far...and I have the Sport model.
Maybe some people are just interested in other people's experiences.
Certainly I'm curious to know which "high-risk" activities people have managed without damaging their Watch and which ones have surprisingly caused harm to it. I consider this information useful, and generally of interest.
Without threads focused on sharing personal experience, the Watch forum would be dead these days. Until wOS 2.0 comes out, there's not really a lot new to talk about otherwise.
Humbly spoken and I don't mean to repeat myself since I've already said this in another thread, but I'm a professional skydiver and my Watch has now experienced 141 skydives with no noticeable effects. I've banged it in the aircraft (not too hard though) and I don't have any scratches on it yet. (Sport model)
Haven't hit my watch face on anything yet. I don't typically bang my wrists against things, though, so that probably helps. I've had it for a couple/few weeks.
Beyond typical activities of a software engineer with large dogs and a family, I lift weights daily and engage in regular, rigorous trail running.
Beyond typical activities of a software engineer with large dogs and a family, I lift weights daily and engage in regular, rigorous trail running.
Well, that certainly qualifies as both high-risk and a sport! Delighted to know it's holding up so readily; it bodes well for my far more pedestrian (and I mean that literally) lifestyle...
For the money I am assuming the cut sapphire used will offset this. I have had more traditional watches use this and no scratches over the years. One watch saw several years of (ab)use when I served in the military and I didn't take it off when doing more manual tasks that saw higher chance of getting banged up. For the money I am assuming Apple's standards are close to say victorinox/swiss army sapphire wise.
Raised bezel like a traditional watch I imagine would could have issues registering end of frame finger touching. I use traditional watches and even getting in to clean around the bezel/glass interface area can be some work.this just to get a damp clothe to reach it...not even looking for precision reading of pressing.
If a concern there is an old standby military trick to be of use. Rotate the watch face around to have the face on the underside of your wrist not the top. Oddly enough for many people you will find any banging will occur on top of wrist if doing more manual things. Even basic using a screwdriver I find has you prefer even subconsciously to bang the upper wrist and not the underside if it has to happen. KNow from years of shade tree mechanic work..it my knuckles and upper wrist that get the scrapes and bruises...not the softer underside.
I bang watches like crazy, broke the crystal on my previous watch a couple times. This is why I went for the DLC and Sapphire on the SBSS. I've banged this on metal fences (iron even!), door jams, walls, etc.. not a scratch on it.
It's definitely not like when we were dating.
