Back of Watch fell off

I had a Tissot Herrenuhr and the back fell off, such is life. How the back was held on is not important, that it fell off was (FYI, it was a pressure fit, metal on metal) reminding me that in the big picture when the back falls off you get it fixed or replaced and move on. Apple is an infant in the watch business, I won't buy one until it reaches version 3 or 4, I don't buy baby steps because babies fall down.

PS. If you want to see how a watch should be built look at Lange & Sohne.

nevsf wrote:

I was just curious because the design seems very flawed. Body heat, sweat and other moisture will wear down the glue over time,

300KpH racing monohull boats are glued together, moisture doesn't seem to affect them very much.

Csound1 wrote:

I had a Tissot Herrenuhr and the back fell off, such is life. How the back was held on is not important, that it fell off was (FYI, it was a pressure fit, metal on metal) reminding me that in the big picture when the back falls off you get it fixed or replaced and move on.

Excellent clarification.

My father had one of these, nothing ever fell off, in fact you could have hammered tent pegs in with it.

Very nice looking watch!

I'd stopped wearing a watch years ago, other than a running watch while running. I tried a Pebble but, frankly, it seemed more of a proof of concept than something I'd wear everyday to me. The Apple Watch is the first watch I've wanted to wear, have enjoyed wearing. So, I'm really not a "watch person". I can recognize the appeal of the watch in your picture but have absolutely no interest in owning such a thing. I so rarely need to pound tent pegs. 😉

But that was (is) part of the appeal, it was so much better than it ever needed to be as a watch that it was something else. Maybe some Saxony craftsmen showing off their skills. As a watch it was fine, as are billions of others. As a thing it was simply extraordinary, it was in the family for 3 generations and it was a secondhand piece from the beginning, it was apparently totally unaffected by the passage of time, it just measured it and stayed exactly the same no matter how it was misused. I wish I had it 🙂

Apple glueing the back on the watch and the heat making the back come off is what this post is about, you need to take a reading comprehension course anyone can look at the words, understanding them is your problem.

dont bother replying to this message, I won't respond anymore to your apple fanboyism I like apple products but Apple fanboy I'm not, when there's a problem I say there's a problem not just say, oh the back was glued on my $740.00 watch and fell off, I must've wore it wrong next time I will keep it away from my wrist, I will just send it back to apple and wait a month until they fix it.

That's too bad that you don't. I have a number of pieces of jewelry (none of them incredibly valuable) that have been passed down through multiple generations. They are very precious to me.

Csound1 wrote:

I had a Tissot Herrenuhr and the back fell off, such is life. How the back was held on is not important, that it fell off was (FYI, it was a pressure fit, metal on metal) reminding me that in the big picture when the back falls off you get it fixed or replaced and move on.

let me clarify something , if you pull the apple watch off the magnetic charger and the back comes off, there is a cable attached to the back that may be snapped depending on how fast you pull the watch off the charger, the watch can't detect your arm and apple pay will not work all health apps cease to work and the entire back has to be replaced.

Just as you have quoted me saying, I'd get it repaired or replaced.

Kstud7 wrote:

let me clarify something , if you pull the apple watch off the magnetic charger and the back comes off, there is a cable attached to the back that may be snapped depending on how fast you pull the watch off the charger, the watch can't detect your arm and apple pay will not work all health apps cease to work and the entire back has to be replaced.

Ok, so get Apple to repair or replace it.

The Airbus 380 and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner are held together with glue, and they are both exposed to more extreme environments than your wrist. There's nothing wrong with glue per se.

The Space Shuttle has a heat shield held on with glue. Clearly this is not your mama's glue.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

The Airbus 380 and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner are held together with glue, and they are both exposed to more extreme environments than your wrist. There's nothing wrong with glue per se.

My dad (who you would have gotten on with very well, I think) could repair pretty much anything with epoxy and duct tape.

Nor your daddy's heat shield. I've held one of the tiles, and tried it out with a blowtorch. You can hold it in the palm of your hand, with a blowtorch heating the opposite side.