I just don't know where threads like this come from. If you want your watch to look as pristine as the day it rolled off the manufacturing line, there's only one way to guarantee that. Never open the box.
I get that titanium is softer than steel, but that's a bit like saying one type of rock is softer than another. And it's still much harder than aluminum. Since I got the Ultra in October I have not babied this thing at all. I've done multiple oil changes on my cars, knocked it around my snowblower both in clearing snow and maintaining it, gotten pulled to the ground while walking my dog, and shoved it into the garbage disposal trying to get something out. Just this last weekend I was mounting a TV on the wall and rearranging my entertainment center. My watch was banged up against the dry wall countless times. At one point I even had a shelf that weighed about 50 pounds fall directly onto it (probably saved me from a broken wrist). Still not a single scratch on this thing. Not even on the lip around the screen that everyone seems to be convinced will scratch if you so much as look at it wrong.
Are these the kinds of "extreme" activities that Apple advertised the watch for? Absolutely not. Are they "extreme" activities for a watch to endure without damage? I would argue yes. From the watch's perspective, is it really that different being slammed against some dry wall repeatedly than it is some stone cliff while rock climbing? Or being submerged in the gross water in a stopped up sink than it is splashing through a mountain stream? Every day life throws a lot of scenarios at my watch that are pretty "extreme" all on their own.
I get that titanium is softer than steel, but that's a bit like saying one type of rock is softer than another. And it's still much harder than aluminum. Since I got the Ultra in October I have not babied this thing at all. I've done multiple oil changes on my cars, knocked it around my snowblower both in clearing snow and maintaining it, gotten pulled to the ground while walking my dog, and shoved it into the garbage disposal trying to get something out. Just this last weekend I was mounting a TV on the wall and rearranging my entertainment center. My watch was banged up against the dry wall countless times. At one point I even had a shelf that weighed about 50 pounds fall directly onto it (probably saved me from a broken wrist). Still not a single scratch on this thing. Not even on the lip around the screen that everyone seems to be convinced will scratch if you so much as look at it wrong.
Are these the kinds of "extreme" activities that Apple advertised the watch for? Absolutely not. Are they "extreme" activities for a watch to endure without damage? I would argue yes. From the watch's perspective, is it really that different being slammed against some dry wall repeatedly than it is some stone cliff while rock climbing? Or being submerged in the gross water in a stopped up sink than it is splashing through a mountain stream? Every day life throws a lot of scenarios at my watch that are pretty "extreme" all on their own.
