Tell your amusing trying on watch stories.

[AbeFrohman]

Would you shove an apple watch in your pocket? What about a watch that cost over 10x/20x that amount? .

Yes, I would.

And yes, I have.

I took one of my daily drivers off my OEEA auto-winder and wore it that day I stopped by to check out the Apple Watch. I took it off and put it in my suit pants pocket while I had my watch try-on. Would I put an Apple Warch in my pocket? Yes.

The Apple Warch is not made of some Uber-fragile materials, nor was my watch. My watches ride on my wrist, subject to (gasp!) being rub against the inside of a shirt sleeve much like the inside of an empty pocket.

Your word choice is trying to invoke an action and emotion I simply won't subscribe to. "Shove" implies they they somehow forced you into some sort of violent action against your personal property. Nobody asked you to fling your watch across the room into a heap of other watches. Nobody said you had to manhandle it as you put it in a secure location while you had your try on appointment. You could have placed as gingerly as you wished in a velvet lined carrying case of your choosing or on your opposite wrist for a few moments.

Sorry you were offended that an Apple Store employee asked you to move your watch. I offered (as have others) a reason why they did so. Your reaction and interpretation is on you.

 

[xraydoc]

Would you shove an apple watch in your pocket? What about a watch that cost over 10x/20x that amount?

Apple needs to learn some respect for an industry they are now entering, especially when they are entering the bottom of it, even with a $17k watch, they;re at the bottom.

Except most Apple stores are 50x busier than the stores that sell watches that cost 10x what the average Apple Watch does. The customer's watch is not insured by Apple. They don't want it out where it could be snatched by someone else at the already crowded watch counters.

While I'm all for training the snooty millennials some etiquette, I can't blame them for not wanting to also keep an eye on the customer's watch, too. The environment is not as quiet or safe as a typical high-end jeweler or watch shop.

 

[DavoteK]

"Timepiece" haha, get over yourselves.

 

[jduk15]

The UK store I went to refused to change the Sports watch band with non-sports straps - the guy told me it simply wasn't possible because of erosion. Utter nonsense.

Also, the store couldn't swap the white sports watch strap for a black one - they just didn't have the right size available (they only have 38mm white and 42mm black). I said it seems like Apple is making it difficult for customers to make decisions and the staff member seemed surprised hmmmm

 

[iwayne]

Yes, I would.

And yes, I have.

I took one of my daily drivers off my OEEA auto-winder and wore it that day I stopped by to check out the Apple Watch. I took it off and put it in my suit pants pocket while I had my watch try-on. Would I put an Apple Warch in my pocket? Yes.

The Apple Warch is not made of some Uber-fragile materials, nor was my watch. My watches ride on my wrist, subject to (gasp!) being rub against the inside of a shirt sleeve much like the inside of an empty pocket.

Your word choice is trying to invoke an action and emotion I simply won't subscribe to. "Shove" implies they they somehow forced you into some sort of violent action against your personal property. Nobody asked you to fling your watch across the room into a heap of other watches. Nobody said you had to manhandle it as you put it in a secure location while you had your try on appointment. You could have placed as gingerly as you wished in a velvet lined carrying case of your choosing or on your opposite wrist for a few moments.

Sorry you were offended that an Apple Store employee asked you to move your watch. I offered (as have others) a reason why they did so. Your reaction and interpretation is on you.

Offended, no? Realizing you are surrounded by people that don't have a clue, yes lol

 

[ocabj]

The employees have zero clue about real watches. I walked in wearing a Breitling SuperOcean, not the most expensive watch but clearly a timepiece worth a hell of a lot more than most watches they carry. I gently put it down on the pad and she says to me can you put that watch in your pocket. I laughed and said there's NO WAY I'm shoving a Breitling in my pocket. She then says, what's a Breitling? SMH. I seriously began to lecture her on how if Apple is going to sell watches they better train their employees on what timepieces actually are.

There's no reason why you couldn't have put your watch in your pocket or on your other wrist.

I'll admit the formalities irked me (keep your own watch, phone, etc off the mat) when I went to go try on the Apple Watch on the first weekend of the appointments.



I just played along when the salesperson asked me to keep my watch off the mat/table.

But there's no need to wax poetic about luxury mechanical watches vs Apple Watches while in the Apple Store trying on an Apple Watch to the employees. Plus, you don't need to go off on someone just because they don't recognize the brand name of your watch.

I think the OP's tale of the sales person tossing his watch aside (assuming not exaggerated) is something more aggravating, though. Even if it was a G-Shock as opposed to a Panerai, the sales person should not touch the property until asking the owner.

 

[abuskeletor]

I wasn't a registered user when this happened, so I had forgotten to write about until another thread just reminded me about the incident.

So when the watches went for sale and you could make an appointment to try a watch on, I made one for the soonest appointment.

I walk in and tell the guy what I'm there for and have to wait around 10 minutes till it was my time and there was a free salesperson. I get this nice girl who ask me what I'm interested in and I tell her the Sport SG.

She takes me over to the counter and proceeds to pull out a watch and lays the presentation mat out in front of us. Now for those of you who weren't there the first few days, as usual it was a madhouse, Standing Room Only in that store, tons of people trying on watches, crowded tables, people staring over your should, basically it was packed to the gills.

Anyways, as many who tried on watches will tell you, there were treating the watches as if they were more precious than all the puppies in the world. I take off my watch and lay it on the mat, I guess it's important to the story but my daily wearer watch is a Panerai 194, a big 47mm wide 2500 meter rated dive watch that was only made in 1000 pieces in 2004, and cost more than a watch edition.

So I lay my watch down on the mat and she puts the puny, featherweight aluminum watch on me, and I play with it for a few seconds, she ask if I would like to try a SS, I say why not, so she takes my watch off the mat and tosses it to the bare wooden table and gently places the SG watch on the mat, as if my tuna can looking timepiece had dirtied the sanctity of those virginal watches. I laugh and look at my Wife and she just laughed at me and walked to check out the new Macbook.

I just thought it was funny how all the salespeople that day I was in there, were acting like those watches were the finest things in the world.

I was only wearing a Movado when I went it for my try-on appointment and I had two Apple employees ask me why I would want an Watch instead...

 

[iwayne]

There's no reason why you couldn't have put your watch in your pocket or on your other wrist.

I'll admit the formalities irked me (keep your own watch, phone, etc off the mat) when I went to go try on the Apple Watch on the first weekend of the appointments.

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I just played along when the salesperson asked me to keep my watch off the mat/table.

But there's no need to wax poetic about luxury mechanical watches vs Apple Watches while in the Apple Store trying on an Apple Watch to the employees. Plus, you don't need to go off on someone just because they don't recognize the brand name of your watch.

I think the OP's tale of the sales person tossing his watch aside (assuming not exaggerated) is something more aggravating, though. Even if it was a G-Shock as opposed to a Panerai, the sales person should not touch the property until asking the owner.

Batman, nice. She's next on the list...

 

[roland.g]

yeah it can but it was quite awkward putting it in my pocket. Hindsight, I should have just put it on my right wrist. I think the theme of all these comments is that the retail staff probably needs to be trained a little bit better in Jewelry sales if thats the approach they want to go. They have $1000+ computers and what not out for display for any kid to touch and they are treating these $400 watches like they are $40,000.

Take it with a grain of salt though. All the product in the store is secured by alarm cables so that people can use the iPhones, iPads, etc. without them getting stolen for the most part. They certainly can't have you try on a watch with a cable attached to it. So they did need a system of maintaining security over the watch as it was out. I seriously don't think Apple is really treating the watches like $40k products.