Hello,
My friend recently bought an second hand used apple watch s3 and they are kinda strange.
They work normaly everything is the same but the rear side of the watch doesn't have buttons to eject strap you can just slide it out. But instead of those eject buttons there are holes.. also down there there is strange cutout. The model number of those watches is A1960.. I added some photos and video.
Could someone explain this?
I think you may have found a fake. It looks suspicious and not very similar to my 42mm Series 3 which I know to be genuine Apple because I carried it from the Apple Store myself. See photo for comparison, note the difference around the band locks, and extra holes in the watch back on your specimen - although mine is LTE and yours claims to be the GPS model so I’m not 100% certain.
The only other check I can suggest is to find the serial number, (see How to find the serial number or IMEI for your Apple Watch - Apple Support ), compare hardware engraving with the on screen version if the watch is working, and then feed it into the warranty checker, Check Your Service and Support Coverage - Apple Support. That should identify a high proportion of counterfiets and products of the Great Oriental Copy Machine.
It's 1000% a real apple product!
How do you know that is true?
Because fake product wouldn't pair to icloud and iphone throught watch app)
It is not modified..
Just because someone claimed it was a special prototype doesn't make it so.
Anything is possible. But, no one here is going to be able to give the OP a 100% definitive answer. Anyone who would know for certain is going to be covered by an NDA.
I found this on the web, not sure if it's valid, but it describes an Apple Watch Model A1960...........https://fccid.io/BCG-A1859/Label/E-Label-Additional-Model-3553173
That doesn’t look like a genuine FCC site, and a WHOIS search suggests it might be a privately owned third party site. Legitimate business sites tend not to have secrecy applied for the site owner details, and they don’t often use Namecheap as the registration body. https://who.is/whois/fccid.io
It cannot be knock off when you can connect it to icloud and everything.. the materials feels the same as normal one everything works the same I know how fakes looks like and these are deffinitely not.
These are not public release... I'am pretty sure its prototype or demo unit.
Ok, what did the warranty checker I linked have to say about the serial number? If it is a genuine device it should get a hit of some kind. In some respects I’m hoping it is a counterfeit, because if it is a prototype or demo version they are never sold legally on the open market, they are always Apple property so that would mean this one is Stolen Property.
they are not. fake would not pair to icloud and stuff.
Strange Apple Watch Series 3 - 42mm??
