Apple Watch band is too short for me

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I am in the same boat. Too bad they are launching with basically only small and medium bands. I think we will have to wait for third party bands to get a large.

The boat is going to be big!

Watch band is at least an inch too short. I got my watch on Friday. Stainless with Classic Buckle. I am wearing it, but it feels like I am a kid again and I put on my little brothers watch. I know that Apple would say that they had all the dimensions there online, but who would belive that they would make a watch with such a short band? I plopped down over 700 bucks for this, and this is very cheesy. Do I send it back?

PlayaDelRey wrote:

I know that Apple would say that they had all the dimensions there online, but who would belive that they would make a watch with such a short band?

I would have thought that everyone who read the specs would believe it.

You're within the return period. If you don't like it, send it back. You could probably also sell it for more than you paid for it.

Let me try this again. (This is for a stainless 38).

I saw the specs on the band. I tried to use a tape measure to determine if it would fit, and I should have had help as that is hard to do alone. But is seemed alright, and I ordered the watch.

I am a watch junkie. I have never had a problem like this. You come to expect a certain "standard" when you buy a watch, and ALL of my watches have a longer

strap, and I guess (Shame on me) I assumed so would the Apple Watch.

The band fits, so to speak, but the part that is left after you pass it though the buckle, is not long enough, and the band keeper-loop thingey does not have enough band to keep it in place. Therefore you are constantly having to slide the loop back over it to keep it in place.

I could send it back, but you might imagine how I feel about that. I made sure I got mine on the 24th because I stayed up and ordered it right after midnight on the 10th. I really wanted the watch.

Again, I'm not clear why you expected things to be different from what they said they would be. However, that changes nothing. You can either return everything or wear it as is until third party bands are available, as they almost certainly will be.

Gee Meg, I dunno'...I guess it is kind of a "man" thing. You learn to trust in life that certain dimensions of certain things always remain logical. I think the term is "true to fit," or something like that. If you buy, say, an XL shirt, you come to expect the tail to be certain length. When you buy a size 12 shoe, you expect it to fit. A .22 caliber Winchester, unless called a "youth" model, is always about the same size...and on and on. Sure there are always variables, but in general day to day things are almost always correct.

A man's watch is not just a piece of jewelry, but an important part of your wardrobe and a tool you learn to depend on, and NO watch, in the history of the world has ever been sold with a strap that is at least an inch too short. I don't care what the charts said.

The band is out of gauge.

APPLE BLEW IT.

I suggest you try the Milanese or Black Leather Loop.

I ordered the Black Classic Buckle because the Apple site said it was the largest. That simply is not true. It fit but at the second to last hole it was not comfortable. I went into the store and tried them on and both the Milanese and Leather Loop fit comfortably with room to spare. I have asked for an exchange to the Milanese band and am just waiting for it to ship, apparently in June.

I just wish their site had more accurate information about sizes so I would not have ordered the "longest" when it was actually the third longest.

Go into the Apple Store and try one on. I think they are big, I have a large wrist and it still fits with room to spare. I believe my wrist was 215mm. Hope this helps and good luck.

Well Gee PlayaDelRey, when Apple actually tells you the actual size ins read of using a simple L, XL, whatever, I hardly think you can complain they blew it.

"I don't care what the charts said" is the same as "I don;t care what the facts are" and as a wise person (maybe a man, I don;t know) once said, you can choose your opinions but you can't choose your facts.

Nick,

Do you own a strap watch?

Well if you do, you will note that after you slide the tongue of the band through the buckle, and notch it up, you will have a generous

part of the tongue left over, to pass under the loop/keeper.

This is all I am trying to say.

I am on the third to the last notch, and it gives me a whopping 1 inch to tuck under the loop. If you were on the last notch, you would have a whopping 1/2 inch. A standard watch band leaves 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches to tuck under the loop. This way, the tongue stays IN the loop. With this band, it does NOT stay in the loop.............ergo, APPLE BLEW IT!

THE BAND IS OUT OF GUAGE!

To be able to have ANY tongue left on the strap, your wrist would have to bone skinny.

I own several strap watched - including an Apple Watch.

Apple published the actual dimensions on the website before ordering opened. Like Meg, I really don't understand why, if you order a watch with a star of a stated length, and the strap is that length, you're complaining of some kind of misrepresentation.

But, in the end, it doesn't matter whether I understand - you aren't happy and that's that.

You can:

- Return the watch for a refund

- Wait until Apple or someone provides a strap long enough to meet your needs

Either way, you can feed back to Apple at www.apple.com/feedback

There's no further help anyone here can give - this is user-to-users - none of us have special access to Apple or knowledge of how to fix this

(I have a 42mm.) I found exactly the same as Chris. Chris, I asked for an exchange from Classic Buckle to Milanese Loop and the shipped it within two days. I can only just get the ML over my hand but if I couldn't, I could have gone for a Large Leather Band which was longer than the Classic Buckle.

Sadly there isn't an XL band and it doesn't look like 3rd parties have realized that there are larger wrists out there either. The best solution I have found is to use an Apple Watch adapter and then you can use whatever strap you want or already have.

Apple has released an extra links kit for the Stainless Steel Link Bracelet that caters to wrists sized 205-245mm:

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/ML9K2/42mm-link-bracelet-kit

http://www.apple.com/shop/watch/sizing-guide