Back of Watch fell off

Kstud7 wrote:

Lot's of companies?

Name one, That charges $740.00 for the watch,

Tissot (Rolex subsidiary) while their watches aren't as cheap as an Apple Watch the back does fall off (once, on one watch that I own)

Next question?

Herrenuhr, white gold.

"To my knowledge even they have not glued the actual back on a watch"

Quit making assumptions, I never mentioned glue, 'Stick to what is posted, don't make it up as you go along.

Your post of July 18, 11:32 am, does make it sound as if the Tissot used glue and that you'd had the back fall off. That's certainly the way I read it, too. You quoted the part were the poster asked someone (deggie, I think) to name one brand of watch that used glue ("Name one").

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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.

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.

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.

Meg St._Clair wrote:

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

How is Duck Tape like The Force? Each has a dark side, a light side, and they hold the Universe together.

zorkor wrote:

Please stay on the topic which is about Apple watch with substandard build quality issues. Dont bring other companies here and divert the topic to something else man.

We've moved on to other things because the original topic, which was about a single broken watch, has been exhausted.

(I still think gluing things together that are repeatedly under heat, moisture and stress is a bad design decision, but I'm not a designer at Apple nor, apparently, Boeing or Airbus.)

It is a bad decision and don't let these fanboys change your opinion, it's okay to like a product but this is ridiculous, in there eyes apple can do no wrong, Apple could sell them dirt with an apple logo on it and they will say it's quality dirt and if it gets clean its under warranty, Apple will make it dirty again, this is clearly the wrong forum to say anything is wrong with an apple product.

So the higher end watches that use adhesives, the AirBus and the Dreamliner are bad decisions, current helicopters are bad decisions, smartphones are bad decisions, is this what you are saying? If apple used screws and they corroded from sweat would that also be a bad decision?

Adhesives have been increasing in use in the past 20 years due to weight, strength, cost, resistance to heat, corrosion, etc. It isn't a case of being a "fanboy" it is just paying attention to what lots of manufacturers are doing and catching up with the times. If you want to stay with things assembled with screws then buy something that uses that technique. But screws, bolts, rivets, etc. can also break. And have done so.

Kstud7 wrote:

It is a bad decision and don't let these fanboys change your opinion, it's okay to like a product but this is ridiculous, in there eyes apple can do no wrong, Apple could sell them dirt with an apple logo on it and they will say it's quality dirt and if it gets clean its under warranty, Apple will make it dirty again, this is clearly the wrong forum to say anything is wrong with an apple product.

Lose the argument, start with the ad hominem attacks. Predictable.