My son inherited a nice stainless steel Apple Watch. Then he broke the face. He doesn't want to take it in to Apple for repairs because he's afraid he'll just be handed a refurbished unit. Since the watch has sentimental value, he'd rather keep that particular watch. Is there anything Apple can do in a situation like this?
If you bring the Apple Watch to the store, the only thing they can do is actually physically ship the watch to a repair depot, and then which they either decide to replace/repair the watch and then they mail another replacement watch back to your address or the Apple store. [Apple does not carry replacement watches in store.]
If he wants the display replaced, but wants to keep the original watch, then you can opt to have that completed, which you would have to have the Apple Store notate for the repair order, assuming this watch also doesn’t have AppleCare.