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Is 38mm for females or just smaller wrists?
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I can't believe that these lame & overtly sexist threads are allowed!!!!
If somebody posted "is the iPad Air for straight people & the iPad mini for gays?" or "is the iPhone 6 for black people & the 6+ for whites?", I bet it would get removed.
I don't get it. All of these are equally fundamentally ignorant and calculatingly devisive.
Let's embrace the fact that we do NOT live in the 1950's & all act our decade please, yeah?
Kinda correct...
But not with a watch. There is such a thing as a Women's and Men's watch. There is such a thing as Men's and Women's department for clothing. This doesn't mean that a man or a woman can't shop in any section they want.
Large size watches are in style for men and women. I can see both wearing the 38 and 42 mm.
Now the real reason people are asking is because Apple doesn't assign male or female designation to the watch... and that is great.
Here's the real question that the guys are trying to ask... without asking it...
Will people make fun of me if I wear a 38mm and am a guy? Will I be told that it is a girls watch?
For me the 38mm will probably look and fit better on my wrist... but I would most likely buy the larger model for the larger screen.
iPad Nano same Size as 42 mm Apple Watch
I put a strap on my old iPad Nano. It's the same size as the larger Apple Watch. I'm wearing it daily to determine whether or not to get the larger screen Apple Watch. Initially I wanted the smaller screen but my iPod Nano doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would.
I put a strap on my old iPad Nano. It's the same size as the larger Apple Watch. I'm wearing it daily to determine whether or not to get the larger screen Apple Watch. Initially I wanted the smaller screen but my iPod Nano doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would.
No... I get that.
I just find it sad & embarrassing. Many, many decades ago all girls wore dresses. But now pants (like the Apple Watch) are considered ok for both sexes. Anybody old fashioned enough & rigidly stuck in what modern society would consider "wrong" thinking, as to refer to a female wearing pants as "dressed like a boy" is as sadly out of touch with the gender equalities we've slowly espoused over the last six decades... and to me is in the EXACT same deluded category of people now claiming that a 4mm difference in watch face size, with all other things being equal, is the deciding factor in the appropriateness for one sex or the other.
It's ludicrous and disheartening. I honestly feel horribly for any man or woman that has to worry, as you said, of being "made fun of" or judged as less feminine or less masculine due to such an unrelated to gender issue as the very slight variance in the size of their Watch face. Lol, this is as sexist as making fun of a man for wearing bright colored shoes... or a woman for wearing a ball cap. It's ugly to poke fun & generally highlights one's own gender insecurities.
While I am NOT a psychologist, if I had to guess- I'd imagine the people here most adamant about one size being only for one gender, have the most tenuous sense of their own gender & are desperate for acknowledgement that they are indeed "manly", for example... as shown by their very slightly larger Watch. Again... *shaking my head*, we've progressed BEYOND this as a society!!! Let's don't backside.
Does anyone else think the 38mm looks tiny in the promo videos in comparison to the 42mm? I have small wrists so I am leaning more towards the 38, but, to me, the 38mm looks so small it would be much harder to use than the 42mm, in the videos I've watched... Anyone else agree?
Specifically this screenshot
Or the side view
Specifically this screenshot
Or the side view
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The tough thing about Apple's measurements is that 38mm and 42mm is from top to bottom, rather than the way most watches are measured, which is left to right.
Either way, I'm a 6'2" male with average sized wrists, and I'm planning on the 38mm Watch. Square watches generally look larger than round watches, and I prefer elegant over bulky. The Rolex DateJust is still one of the staples of the luxury watch world, and it is 36mm across.
Either way, I'm a 6'2" male with average sized wrists, and I'm planning on the 38mm Watch. Square watches generally look larger than round watches, and I prefer elegant over bulky. The Rolex DateJust is still one of the staples of the luxury watch world, and it is 36mm across.
Yes, it does look a lot smaller. I would like to have the 38 mm but am concerned about screen visibility as compared to the 42 mm.
I'm currently wearing an Omega Aqua Terra that is 39.2mm. It is tough to gauge visually, since we're talking about a circle vs square, but, oddly enough, the area of the top of my Omega (not including lugs) is pretty similar to the same area as the top of the 38mm Apple Watch. It's about 38mmx32mm vs. a circle with a diameter of 39mm. Both have an area around 1200mm. Also, I prefer 20mm straps, so I think the 38mm Apple Watch is the way I'll go. I got the Lasik procedure on my eyes, so I'll be able to see the smaller screen fine.
I was all for the 38mm, until I printed out a lifesize 42mm.
My wrist (skinny) is a little wider than the 42mm, which looks ok to me, considering some of the HUGE watches people wear nowadays.
Plus at 33 my eyes aren't getting any better, so maybe the 42mm text will be just that much bigger that it will help.
My wrist (skinny) is a little wider than the 42mm, which looks ok to me, considering some of the HUGE watches people wear nowadays.
Plus at 33 my eyes aren't getting any better, so maybe the 42mm text will be just that much bigger that it will help.
I'm male with a white iPhone 6 lol. I picked it because it had a shorter reserve list.
Apple is wisely offering two sizes to accommodate individuals personal preferences. It has nothing to do with gender. It's as simple as that.
The 38mm is not for women because it is too large (and thick) for most women. The Apple Watch is 67% thicker than an iPhone 6. Think about that for a moment.
Although larger watches are in style for men, that is not the case for women. Just look through one of your wife's/girlfriend's style magazines. What type of watch do you see on all of the skinny models? Small watches, typically 30mm or less. In the style magazine articles that recommend accessories for women, what sort of watches do they recommend? Watches with small faces.
The Apple Watch will be a male geek status symbol, much like Google Glass, because there is no version that most women can pull off. Bigger boned, 5'8 and taller women can probably pull off the 38mm iWatch, but the average woman is 5'4 in the U.S. and closer to 5'2 in Asia and Latin America.
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Apple will try everything they can to convince women to see men with the watch in a positive light, because any product that women find unattractive on men is dead on arrival. Thus, we will see all sorts of Apple advertisements showing tall, athletic women wearing an iWatch. Apple will pay magazines to include the iWatch in covershoots with tall, athletic models. Google tried the same thing with Google Glass, paying women's magazines to run photos of models wearing the product.
Unfortunately for Apple, nothing can change the fact that the current iWatch was designed by males for males, which is obvious to most women.
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Sorry but who says it's not for woman? You? Fashion magazines? What right do either have to say it's 'not' for woman.
Vogue, other fashion magazines and Apple disagree with you.
No doubt, Apple's paid advertisements and photo shoots will promote the iWatch for the reasons I cited. However, cruise on over to any one of the dozens of Internet style forums for women and you will find that the overwhelming majority of female posters consider the first-generation iWatch to be nerd/geek toy for men.
Watch.Some color combinations (e.g. the rose gold with rose gray leather, the stainless steel with pink leather, and the yellow gold with red leather) appear to be marketed exclusively to women.
I'm finding this issue really confusing. I totally agree with you. I was clear on the 38mm until I printed it out. It looks so small. The 42mm is not as huge as I feared. Yet some of the real on-wrist photos make it look massive.
My wrists are small, too. My current watch is pretty big, so I'm comfortable with that, but I want it to look proportionate and I'd rather have something lightweight. I don't wear my current watch all the time because it's heavy.
Check the dimensions of the print out. Mine was off by a millimeter or two. The 38mm seems to wear about like a DateJust, which I think will work for me.