My Series 2 Edition with Cocoa sport band.
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Just bought that band, too. Looks like a good combo. Also have my eye on the concrete one, but gonna hold off.
That looks great. I'm just using the Cloud and Black Sport Bands with mine; will have to put Cocoa on the list!
Just bought a Space Black Link Bracelet for £150 from CEX UK. It's in pristine condition now that I've put it through a sonic cleaner. Breathes new life into my space black Watch.
Since the cost of this band is £549 alone, it's an absolute bargain!! Of course I did all the checks to make sure it was genuine, and it came boxed so...
Forgive the little hair/lint stuck in the band, didn't notice it whilst photographing.
Since the cost of this band is £549 alone, it's an absolute bargain!! Of course I did all the checks to make sure it was genuine, and it came boxed so...
Forgive the little hair/lint stuck in the band, didn't notice it whilst photographing.
Love your attention to detail...took me a while to find that hair. Never would have seen it If you hadn't mentioned it. Oh, and sweet link too!
I'm not a major fan of linked bands. But that looks good...
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Space grey 42mm. 12 quid Milanese loop from amazon, matches really well and feels really nice.
Space grey 42mm. 12 quid Milanese loop from amazon, matches really well and feels really nice.
Got this strap myself & think it looks lovely. Will be swapping it over with my sportsband in the morning
I usually choose my strap in the morning depending on what clothes I'm wearing for work and of course sports strap for the workouts
I have here a SS 42mm with woven nylon red band (China), from Apple International Collection (2016 Olympic Games). I have nothing to do with China, but I love red!
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My Space Black Series 2 Stainless Steel has arrived. I have a Space Black Link Bracelet for my Series 0 at home so I saw no need in spending $500 again for a band with a couple of less scratches.
I took some photos of the watch w/ Sport Band:
I took a few more photos with other bands:
Keep in mind, this is a new Series 2 DLC Apple Watch and the DLC coated link bracelet is from May 2015 and it's held up really well. almost no scratches.
This is the Clockwork Synergy PRIDE NATO Strap:
I'm I the only one who likes the black ss? I see a lot of aluminum sg.
I bought SS SB because of the scratch resistance. Looking at some photos of SS after one year and mine after a year and it's literally night and day. The DLC coating is an unspoken hero and definitely under-marketed by Apple.
If you told people they could spend $100 more for a watch that wouldn't show scratches, they'd spring for it in a lot of cases.
I'm fairly certain SS and SBSS are negligible in weight difference. The DLC coating is nano sized in the thickness it adds. Here's an article from when the watch first came out about it:
http://www.imore.com/apple-watch-and-durability
The PVD process is used to create a vast array of coatings, but the current gold standard for hardness and wear resistance is DLC. Essentially, a DLC coating is a 1-3 micron layer of carbon that self arranges into a structure similar to that found in a diamond, thus imparting some of a diamond's surface hardness properties. In fact, many of the attempts to create synthetic diamonds revolve around modifying the basic PVD DLC process in order to "grow" a stone. The term "DLC" itself isn't just one kind of coating, there are 7-8 different basic chemistries, and each manufacturer of equipment and service provider often creates their own proprietary recipe and processes. (Tungsten DLC, for example, deposits a layer of tungsten on the part before the DLC layer is applied, promoting better adhesion).
So just how tough is DLC? The best way to put it is that the watch industry is a second or third tier user of DLC coatings. The vast majority of research and application of DLCs goes into highly engineered components that depend on DLC's hardness, friction reduction, corrosion resistance, and tribology advantages. (That's the study of how one material interacts with another during contact and sliding.) You'll find DLC coatings on shock absorbers and engine pistons in F1 cars, across the leading edges of fan blades in jet engines, coating critical medical implants, and the cutting tools inside the CNC mills and lathes that made the Apple Watch itself. (DLC extends cutter tool life, improves cut quality and allows for dramatic feed/speed increases.)
How this all affects the Space Black Watch is entirely dependent on the quality of the DLC coating Apple is using. Like all things in manufacturing, there is a pretty broad range of quality you can wring out of a particular process. We've seen factory and aftermarket DLC watches that seem impervious to damage, while others have flaked off with minor use. It is a very safe bet that Apple's DLC is pinned at the better end of spectrum, and that would mean the Space Black Watches will be the most durable models of the watch in day-to-day use.
One downside of the DLC process, though, is that any damage to the surface of the Space Black watch will, for all practical purposes, be unrepairable. To re-coat the DLC, you would need to strip the watch to it's bare case and have the entire coating re-applied. While you probably have a PVD shop in your area with DLC capabilities, they would need to develop a strategy to coat your watch (how it is held in the machine to provide an even coat), as well as figure out the proper recipe. The costs to do this for a single watch would quickly exceed the price of simply replacing it.
So just how tough is DLC? The best way to put it is that the watch industry is a second or third tier user of DLC coatings. The vast majority of research and application of DLCs goes into highly engineered components that depend on DLC's hardness, friction reduction, corrosion resistance, and tribology advantages. (That's the study of how one material interacts with another during contact and sliding.) You'll find DLC coatings on shock absorbers and engine pistons in F1 cars, across the leading edges of fan blades in jet engines, coating critical medical implants, and the cutting tools inside the CNC mills and lathes that made the Apple Watch itself. (DLC extends cutter tool life, improves cut quality and allows for dramatic feed/speed increases.)
How this all affects the Space Black Watch is entirely dependent on the quality of the DLC coating Apple is using. Like all things in manufacturing, there is a pretty broad range of quality you can wring out of a particular process. We've seen factory and aftermarket DLC watches that seem impervious to damage, while others have flaked off with minor use. It is a very safe bet that Apple's DLC is pinned at the better end of spectrum, and that would mean the Space Black Watches will be the most durable models of the watch in day-to-day use.
One downside of the DLC process, though, is that any damage to the surface of the Space Black watch will, for all practical purposes, be unrepairable. To re-coat the DLC, you would need to strip the watch to it's bare case and have the entire coating re-applied. While you probably have a PVD shop in your area with DLC capabilities, they would need to develop a strategy to coat your watch (how it is held in the machine to provide an even coat), as well as figure out the proper recipe. The costs to do this for a single watch would quickly exceed the price of simply replacing it.
I had Space Black the first year but jumped on silver steel this time to try it out