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YouTuber Tests Apple Watch Ultra Durability With a Hammer: Table Breaks Before the Watch
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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.
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.
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)
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Even better. A video comparing the relative durability of these YouTube video creators vs a hammer…. LOL J/K
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…
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…
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.
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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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.
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.
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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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"
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