YouTuber Tests Apple Watch Ultra Durability With a Hammer: Table Breaks Before the Watch

The Ultra was obviously traumatized. Instead of going for the kill. He should have waited a couple hours or days to see if the display started working again.
 
If you slow it down the first hit completely missed, looks like he was trying to get his thumb out from the hammer and pulled the strap and watch away (the table breaks at this point, no doubt some cheap melamine or particle board junk from the looks of it). The 2nd hit caught the lower right corner, which is a positive for the raised lip, but calls into question if the screen was actually hit. The third hit is square onto the screen and it shatters.

It still looks like a great and tough watch, but to me it shattered on the "first" hammer blow (yayy for MR journalistic integrity!). Obviously no one is going to be swinging hammers at this. If I had more money than sense I'd do the same to my Rolex Submariner just out of curiosity, I've abused that watch for 15 years with plenty of construction and super hard hits to the sapphire and it doesn't have even the faintest hint of a scratch.
 
camsoft said:
There's a constant misunderstanding about Saphire Crystal glass that it's indestructible but it's simply false. Sapphire Crystal is one of the hardest materials only beaten by diamond and a few synthetic materials which makes it practically scratch proof but it's not particularly stronger than normal glass and will still shatter when bashed so hitting the Apple Watch ultra with a hammer is a very stupid test of the glass given its properties.
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Yeah, good point. The other weird thing I noticed is that he mentioned "falling on rocks" right before putting it in a jar of nails. But those nails are much softer than granite, for example... (sapphire is harder, of course)
 
There, I fixed the title:

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“Breaking” the table isn’t very shocking when you see what kind of table top it was. That’s an IKEA table top. You can break them just as much, and even worse, by banging your fist on them.

If that YouTuber had peeled the broken surface pieces off the table, you would have seen pockets of air about an inch wide, each pocket walled off by extremely thin cardboard … Thin enough to be classified as thick brown packing paper.

Making a headline for this article that says “table breaks before watch” does make it sound really impressive though. So, hats off to editorial staff for capitalizing on that.
 
H. Flower said:
Ironically, its battery degradation will start killing it from the inside in about 3 years.
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This is the whole reason I just upgraded to the Ultra. My Series 5 got about half the battery life it got new so I used it as an excuse to upgrade. I probably would have held on for another year if not for the battery.
 
It's not a table, Ikea or otherwise, it's a piece of plasterboard! You can see the plaster come out when it breaks. He even refers to it as a board. Article title is clickbait. No tables were harmed.
 
Enzo Morocioli said:
Ah come on. That's not a table! It's a piece of sheet rock/drywall! Of course it's going to break! You can dent it with your fingers!!
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Right you are. There's a good chance that's why the watch survived so many hammer blows. The soft surface that he had it on was absorbing much of the impact. Just another fool shilling for Apple.
 
If the arm it’s on breaks before the watch is damaged, it is a tough watch.

These tests would shatter the user’s arm. There is simply no way that the watch could take that amount of force in daily use. I use a sledge hammer weekly and it takes fewer blows to destroy a wall or cabinet than it took to damage the watch…
 
spinedoc77 said:
If you slow it down the first hit completely missed, looks like he was trying to get his thumb out from the hammer and pulled the strap and watch away (the table breaks at this point, no doubt some cheap melamine or particle board junk from the looks of it). The 2nd hit caught the lower right corner, which is a positive for the raised lip, but calls into question if the screen was actually hit. The third hit is square onto the screen and it shatters.

It still looks like a great and tough watch, but to me it shattered on the "first" hammer blow (yayy for MR journalistic integrity!). Obviously no one is going to be swinging hammers at this. If I had more money than sense I'd do the same to my Rolex Submariner just out of curiosity, I've abused that watch for 15 years with plenty of construction and super hard hits to the sapphire and it doesn't have even the faintest hint of a scratch.
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You must have watched a different video...?

He hits it 12 times including 3 light hits and then 9 more harder ones before the display goes off. It's the last of those where you see the display go off and then he can't turn it on again. The 6th of those 12 hits makes the first dent in the table, which then progressively gets worse over the remaining 6.

The following three (after the 12th) hits go according to your description. Followed by a few more both front and back, by which time the back of the watch is also starting to break apart.
 
retinaimac said:
Even though he's hammering the watch on a piece of sheetrock, I'm suprised it didnt crack sooner. Call these tests senseless if you like but if I'm shelling out for one of these watches, I'd like to know how tough they really are.
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So you'll film hitting it with a hammer on top of concrete for us? Please. We'd like to know. 😊
 
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majkom said:
Stupid video… like it shows everything that is wrond with the wirld today… some idiot smashing watches with hammer and making money of it… with groundbreaking revelation - hammer can destroy watches
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He can probably spell and type though...?
 
Joe Mac User said:
Do these characters who destroy the products get enough views that it pays for them to do their unscientific tests?
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Yes, more than enough boys who stand in line to give a few dollars to see this kind of abuse. Probably Apple or reseller will put in a bit of sponsoring too, this is the best advertising they can get and it's cheap too compared to a regular ad campaign on TV and internet.
 
Who ever wrote the article needs to ammend the title and the post to remove the word 'table' because in the video the youtuber refers to the 'board' being broken, there is no mention of a 'table' being broken. It is very disingenuous to mislead MR readers in this manner.
 
Joe Mac User said:
Do these characters who destroy the products get enough views that it pays for them to do their unscientific tests?
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800,000 views as of this writing, so yes. Definitely. Probably makes enough to break it, then go and buy new ones and an iphone and a macbook pro
 
Lmao, I can't say I expected from an apple fan site like this to know any better, but that's not a table of any kind. It's literally a Knauf board(cardboard filled with plaster. These are large but very thin and are normally used to create walls, lowered ceilings,..) It will break easily if you hammer a small device on top of it.

Techrax uses them on his video to create additional satisfaction when stuff breaks. Since it's a new one each time he never has to worry about scratches, imperfection and any other type of "personality" his surface might develop over the time. The surface matches with his personality(or lack thereof) perfectly.

Also the watch sucks because of it's thickness alone.
 
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Sammy in SoCal said:
I think you missed the point. He said they were pointless but the point he was making is that he enjoys them and watches them every time regardless of whether they’re pointless or not. Wake up buddy
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I don't know how long it is, but the pointless ones to me are the ones that are obviously stalling to get ad money. The ones you go in the comments to find the real MVP who comments "Skip to 5:16"
 
compwiz1202 said:
Yes lets try oak so the table isn't taking the brunt
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It was not made of sawdust either, it's not even a table, it's a plaster board ffs, lmao. Nothing impressive about that breaking, in fact the plaster absorbed a lot of force, that's why watch didn't break
 
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