Crystal (glass) material for Apple Watch Series 6?

deggie wrote:

There are more young people who have an active life style with a limited budget (by far) than there are older people who have worn watches and prefer sapphire crystals. And that gap will continue to get wider. Fitbits, Garmins, Fossil, Swatch, Casio G Shock, etc all use glass, not sapphire.

I'm certainly not a "young" person butI hadn't worn a watch in a couple of decades before the Apple Watch came out. And I never owned an expensive watch. While I love the idea of an expensive timepiece that's practically a work of art that will outlive me, I can't imagine something like that ever being part of my lifestyle. I think hardcore "watch people" are likely to be disappointed with an Apple Watch.

All that being said, at Lawerence's recommendation, I paid the extra for the sapphire crystal as I figured I was more likely to scratch than shatter my crystal. Running, if you're doing it right, isn't a contact sport!

Slowing down technology and designing products with sustainability in mind shouldn’t be mutually exclusive (but sadly seems to be, a lot of the time). It would be great to see a modular Apple Watch with replaceable and upgradable internal modules. It would be cool to see some of the past Edition models with all the new functionality.

Start your company and get right on that. But even if you designed a replaceable module you have the same problem. Apple recycles the Apple Watch or their partner resells them so in essence they are already doing what you have suggested.

I wish there was some justification for “it will be obsolete in a couple of years I’ll just buy another one” but it requires more than any company; more like a paradigm shift no one seems willing to make. I thought a fellow horologist would understand sorry for treading too deeply.

I’m a long time techie, Apple is doing a good job with going green and recycling. High end watches primarily do one thing, tell time, and really are more jewelry. Wearables are small computers on the wrist that can tell time (like the commercial says) but does much, much more.

When the Generation 1 watch came out and had the high end gold version I thought that was the silliest thing I’d ever seen, within a short period (compared to high end watches) it would be pretty much obsolete.

Just think what the world would be like if 20 years ago they froze any new technological updates?

The https was screwing it up for some reason. Try this:

support.apple.com/en-us/HT204665

This page also mentions the sapphire crystal:

support.apple.com/en-us/HT204507#series6

You can find it here:

Go to > BUY, choose your model and size and klick afterwards the plus icon of the tech specs ... .

I think you got the info. I got confirmation none of the model has sapphire crystal display.

And yet this information cannot be confirmed online anywhere and only anecdotally through untrained sales people. Bad job Apple.

Mabey they removed that from llisting because its not real sapphire glass

Thank you very much for finding that and posting it.

That link doesn’t work. Apple still had no disclosures anywhere on their website that states the front display glass materials for each Series 6 watch.

No they didn’t from what I can see. Do you have a functional link?