It's too slippery!

[3under2]

Wait, does every woman who owns an Apple Watch also have a big diamond ring, wood floors and beige carpet?

LOL! I didn't even notice that. Next time we'll take the photo in the kitchen with the travertine ... .

 

[3under2]

Lol! And don't forget the manicures! I just about died of envy when I saw 3under2's nails. I'm doing landscaping and garden maintenance for my own property and now two others. I won't be able to have decent fingernails again until November.

To the OP, speaking from long experience from my landscaping work, I can say sweat and plastic against your wrist aren't a good mix. I'm not sure how much contact there is between the case bits and your skin but it's likely the case giving you some problems and putting too much space between you and the sensors if it's the one that wraps around the watch leaving a cutout hole in the back.

Back to the quoted post...

I've got a big diamond ring but I can't wear it in my line of work. I've got the hardwood floors but no beige carpet. The only photo I've shared so far of me with the watch on is very unconventional. In lieu of gold rings and wood and carpet I present you grass and junk and a tarantula:

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I'm a freak about my nails. If I get even the slightest chip, I have to redo it ... I know, crazy much?!

I love your hand jewelry in your picture . One of my daughters saw your picture and said "oh mommy, is that an apple watch?" ... LOL!

 

[5105973]

I'm a freak about my nails. If I get even the slightest chip, I have to redo it ... I know, crazy much?!

I love your hand jewelry in your picture . One of my daughters saw your picture and said "oh mommy, is that an apple watch?" ... LOL!

Lol at your daughter noticing the watch but not remarking on the honking huge spider next to it. That spider had actually reared up to attack the watch either just before or just after that photo was snapped. There is a man in the background that was the spider's handler at the fair booth and he nearly had a fit of shock at the normally tame spider's reaction and tried to take the spider. I told him I'll just stand very still and it should be fine, and it was. Working outdoors in gardens as much as I do, I'm very familiar with spider behavior. That's not to say I like it. I actually had very bad arachnophobia that I had to work to overcome or be forced to give up gardening.

My daughter is the same about her nails and she is only ten. Do you do your own nails or are they professionally done? Your hands are beautiful, you could do hand modeling. And my goodness you have travertine tile in your kitchen? I'm now so officially envious of you.

I was originally going to get a case that looks identical to the OP's to protect my watch during work. But I found out that the SS Apple watch and sport bands are very resilient and easy to clean. I also have a history of my skin reacting badly to plastic. Sweat accumulates under acrylic or non-breathable polymers and give me nasty rashes. So I've decided to skip the case for now.

I hope the OP experiments with taking her case off as well as the other suggestions she's gotten and lets us know if anything changes. I'd also be interested in knowing if lotion does affect her results. So far I've done okay with sun screen smudging up the sensors. I've not worn lotion since I've gotten the watch.

I wear my 38 mm on the smaller of the sport bands and on the fourth hole smack dab in the middle. It stays put so for.

 

[ElctrcJellyfish]

I have this same problem IF I'm wearing sunscreen. If there's no sunscreen, my sweat doesn't make the Watch slippery. If there is sunscreen, it's total doom.

Apparently I need someone to make me a summer band out of sandpaper.

(Would take a picture of my watch to show off beige carpet and hardwood floors, but I'm missing on the diamond ring, so...)

 

[tl01]

Wait, does every woman who owns an Apple Watch also have a big diamond ring, wood floors and beige carpet?

Those are our bedroom floors. We have a wood look tile downstairs.

 

[tl01]

Lol! And don't forget the manicures! I just about died of envy when I saw 3under2's nails. I'm doing landscaping and garden maintenance for my own property and now two others. I won't be able to have decent fingernails again until November.

To the OP, speaking from long experience from my landscaping work, I can say sweat and plastic against your wrist aren't a good mix. I'm not sure how much contact there is between the case bits and your skin but it's likely the case giving you some problems and putting too much space between you and the sensors if it's the one that wraps around the watch leaving a cutout hole in the back.

Back to the quoted post...

I've got a big diamond ring but I can't wear it in my line of work. I've got the hardwood floors but no beige carpet. The only photo I've shared so far of me with the watch on is very unconventional. In lieu of gold rings and wood and carpet I present you grass and junk and a tarantula:

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Cool pic with the tarantula! Yikes!!!

My nails were not looking good for the pic but have since been redone. Can you wear gardening gloves? I keep my nails short but done. Then the manicures last nicely.

I'll try the watch without the case...but I knock my watch into a lot of stuff. I will probably go through my apple care pretty quickly with damage. I don't think it will look great with a huge gash in the side of it.

 

[3under2]

Lol at your daughter noticing the watch but not remarking on the honking huge spider next to it ...

That's the part that had me cracking up. I asked her if she saw the huge spider and then she was like "okay then" ... granted, she's only 4 but come on! LOL .

 

[5105973]

I have this same problem IF I'm wearing sunscreen. If there's no sunscreen, my sweat doesn't make the Watch slippery. If there is sunscreen, it's total doom.

Apparently I need someone to make me a summer band out of sandpaper.

(Would take a picture of my watch to show off beige carpet and hardwood floors, but I'm missing on the diamond ring, so...)

I use sunscreen but don't apply it on the part of my wrist where the watch goes. Some always does find its way under there somehow anyway, to gum up the sensors a little. But I haven't had it get slippery yet.

 

[5105973]

Cool pic with the tarantula! Yikes!!!

My nails were not looking good for the pic but have since been redone. Can you wear gardening gloves? I keep my nails short but done. Then the manicures last nicely.

I'll try the watch without the case...but I knock my watch into a lot of stuff. I will probably go through my apple care pretty quickly with damage. I don't think it will look great with a huge gash in the side of it.

I wear really heavy leather work gloves because I work a lot with highly prolific vicious weeds that seem to have come from an alien planet. (I also run into the occasional snake.) There are three varieties of particularly hideous weeds that have dogged me on my prior two properties and now my new one that had sat vacant and unattended for a year. Two of them are covered in thorns from the ground to their tips and require the thickest leather work gloves I could find.

And the third is not thorned, and is deceptively pretty and soft but highly toxic from root to colorful fruit and is the bane of my existence. This one that breaks my nails is highly toxic pokeweed that has tap root systems as long and as thick as my forearm and sometimes even my husband's forearm on the older plants. I've got over an acre of land invaded by this weed and it's a full time daily job keeping all of the different weeds at bay. At least it is right now because of the year of neglect I'm undoing. I'm trying to do this without herbicides and insecticides so it's hard going. I also have to keep organic in maintaining the gardens at my daughter's school. Fortunately they don't have pokeweed there...yet.

It's digging up and pulling up the pokeweed that wrecks my nails. They split and break inside of the gloves, since I have thin nails anyway. It's reaching under pine trees and scraping my forearms up on the dried sharp stalks of the pokeweed from prior seasons that give me what looks like cuts and scars on my forearms. I'm always a scratched up mess in the summer.

I totally understand why you want to wear your case. I end up beating up my watch worst in the kitchen of all places. I hit it reaching into cupboards digging out pots and pans or reaching for cans in the pantry.

Is the case a pain to put on and take off? Maybe just leave it off outdoors when you're going to get sweaty.

 

[tl01]

I wear really heavy leather work gloves because I work a lot with highly prolific vicious weeds that seem to have come from an alien planet. (I also run into the occasional snake.) There are three varieties of particularly hideous weeds that have dogged me on my prior two properties and now my new one that had sat vacant and unattended for a year. Two of them are covered in thorns from the ground to their tips and require the thickest leather work gloves I could find.

And the third is not thorned, and is deceptively pretty and soft but highly toxic from root to colorful fruit and is the bane of my existence. This one that breaks my nails is highly toxic pokeweed that has tap root systems as long and as thick as my forearm and sometimes even my husband's forearm on the older plants. I've got over an acre of land invaded by this weed and it's a full time daily job keeping all of the different weeds at bay. At least it is right now because of the year of neglect I'm undoing. I'm trying to do this without herbicides and insecticides so it's hard going. I also have to keep organic in maintaining the gardens at my daughter's school. Fortunately they don't have pokeweed there...yet.

It's digging up and pulling up the pokeweed that wrecks my nails. They split and break inside of the gloves, since I have thin nails anyway. It's reaching under pine trees and scraping my forearms up on the dried sharp stalks of the pokeweed from prior seasons that give me what looks like cuts and scars on my forearms. I'm always a scratched up mess in the summer.

I totally understand why you want to wear your case. I end up beating up my watch worst in the kitchen of all places. I hit it reaching into cupboards digging out pots and pans or reaching for cans in the pantry.

Is the case a pain to put on and take off? Maybe just leave it off outdoors when you're going to get sweaty.

Yes...house work is what seems the most risky to my watch. I bang it when grabbing clothes out of the dryer. When stacking sheets and towels on the shelves etc. And since I do that stuff everyday, it seems risky to go without a case.

 

[Peepo]

I can't imagine how else to fit it. Pink sports band and it is the S/m. I do have a case on the watch. I wonder if that makes a difference?

You're wearing it too high up. It should be closer to your hand. That's my opinion.

 

[tl01]

You're wearing it too high up. It should be closer to your hand. That's my opinion.

I just tried it lower on my wrist this evening...and on my evening walk I got HR readings from 54-215. It was closer to 110 when taken with my own fingers and a stop watch. For some reason it isn't accurate down closer to my hands.

 

[3under2]

I don't think you'll be able to get it further down. I don't have the wrist bone sticking up like you do. If I did, it'll be uncomfortable and not very flat where I wear my watch now ...