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Who else plans to get the Apple Watch Hermès?
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THAT... is a good question. I'm thinking there's a hardware ID that is synced with the user's AppleID.
The Hermes watch face is quite attractive. I wish my SS has more watch faces since the only one that looks good to me is the Simple watch face.
You absolutely will NOT pair an Hermès watch with a Florida-orange rubber (or fluoroelastomer... pffft) band. I forbid it.
Most likely the serial number.. Otherwise people with multiple Apple Watch at home would all get the watchfaces. It has to be specific. I don't believe Apple added a new hardware version, it's not practical for replacements & not worth it for such a niche market.
I'm in Florida though!
Regarding the face issue. The Apple Watch Edition has exclusive faces. So, whatever method is used to limit those faces to the Edition will be used to limit these new faces to the Hermès.
The only features exclusive to the Edition faces are gold or rose gold second hand, date, etc. They're otherwise the same faces.
Yes, so whatever method enables those on the Edition will enable the faces on the Hermès.
My favorite look is the Simple, with everything off but the date. Thing is, I find myself using this combo less and less, because I prefer to have more info immediately available - one of the key reasons for wearing a smartwatch IMO. Not to imply that swiping up is difficult or time consuming, but it's much easier to just raise the wrist and get the time, date, weather, battery level, etc. I doubt the Hermès face supports complications. These "designer" faces won't focus on this area... that may not be a big deal to some people, though.
Ah, okay.
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I would like to think that anyone who has the luxury of wearing Hermès has a life free of complications.
Probably the serial numbers... all of the faces, etc. may be there - just available to specific serials. JB community could answer this for us, as soon as iOS 9/watchOS 2 is opened up.
Nobody bothered to hack into the Edition-specific faces. Perhaps the Hermes face will be a bigger motivation.
Maybe the hackers didn't have $10,000-$17,000 laying around.
Pointless for identical faces with 'slightly different hues' for the date and second hand. You'll see Hermès faces on Sport models, though... lol
Wouldn't need it... just open up the OSes. All of the files are there. You'll see more tinkering now that things are getting finalized - there really was no need to even mess around with OS 1. Maybe if we can hurry up and get that Hermès face unlocked, I can keep the Mrs. from spending $$$ (or, more painfully, €€€) next month in Paris.
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It'll be the cheapest thing she buys the entire trip.
Not pointless for those with gold-plated AW. However, it'll no longer matter when we get wOS2 because we're getting a lot more color options including Vintage Rose, etc.
Forgot those people existed...
Yes, I'm enjoying wOS2 - really glad they label the colors as well. There are a few new colors.
Cheaper than her buying an actual Hermès, that's for sure. Problem is, the Apple Store at Galeries is on the 3rd floor - which means we have to pass by all of the "real" watch/jewelry stores to get there. Didn't work out so well (for my wallet) last time.
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Yeah, being someone who loves and wears Swiss mechanicals, I assumed I'd be all over the analog faces when I bought an Apple Watch. To my surprise, there's something about the link bracelet with the "modular" display in red (with the center display section off) that has a masculine, futuristic design that I'm drawn too. It slightly reminds me of a cool, old Pulsar.
I'm not sure I even care about more analog-style face options, unbelievably, and I'd imagine you're right about complications on designer faces.
Yeah, I don't think these branded watches will have any complications other than the date.
By the way, I use the Simple Watch face with all the details on and all four complications, that looks better than the bare Simple face
The modular face does look very good with your setting. However I still find the time to be a bit too small and there is no way to display the seconds. That's weird.
Agreed about the seconds, although the watch face doesn't stay on long enough for me to time anything. I usually use the stopwatch. I'm hoping to see more faces in this style, in the future, as well as beautiful analog-style faces, like the Hermes.
Here is a square Movado Luma begging to become an Apple Watch.
Apple has already ripped this design off. Why do you need it to say "Movado"? Indeed Movado is likely to contribute even less than Hermes did to such a partnership.
