Apple retracts two wrong specs on Titanium Apple Watch weight
When Apple announced Apple Watch Series 5 lineup at its September media event it caused confusion by advertising the titanium version as being lighter than the stainless steel model, but quoted both models as having the same weight on a tech specs page.
Apple had originally said that the titanium Apple Watch would be 45% lighter than the stainless version. At the same time, it said that titanium Apple Watch would weigh as much as stainless steel -- with neither specification right. Apple has since updated the information with the correct weights, and has stricken percentages from marketing materials online.
The 44mm titanium Series 5 model weighs 35.1 grams, with the 44mm model weighing in at 41.7 grams, or roughly 13% lighter than the stainless steel models.
The ceramic Series 5 models weigh in at 39.7 grams for the 40mm model and 46.7 grams for the 44mm model, making them somewhat lighter than the ceramic Series 3 Apple Watches. The 40mm and 44mm Series 5 aluminum Apple Watch models weigh approximately the same as the Series 4 models, at 30.8 and 36.5 grams respectively.
Those who preordered the Apple Watch series 5 can expect it to show up on Friday, September 20, along with the new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. Apple has also created a new Apple Watch Studio, giving users the chance to pair their Apple Watch with whatever band they like. Apple Watch Studio is available both at Apple's online store, as well as in retail locations.
Apple had originally said that the titanium Apple Watch would be 45% lighter than the stainless version. At the same time, it said that titanium Apple Watch would weigh as much as stainless steel -- with neither specification right. Apple has since updated the information with the correct weights, and has stricken percentages from marketing materials online.
The 44mm titanium Series 5 model weighs 35.1 grams, with the 44mm model weighing in at 41.7 grams, or roughly 13% lighter than the stainless steel models.
The ceramic Series 5 models weigh in at 39.7 grams for the 40mm model and 46.7 grams for the 44mm model, making them somewhat lighter than the ceramic Series 3 Apple Watches. The 40mm and 44mm Series 5 aluminum Apple Watch models weigh approximately the same as the Series 4 models, at 30.8 and 36.5 grams respectively.
Those who preordered the Apple Watch series 5 can expect it to show up on Friday, September 20, along with the new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro. Apple has also created a new Apple Watch Studio, giving users the chance to pair their Apple Watch with whatever band they like. Apple Watch Studio is available both at Apple's online store, as well as in retail locations.
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This is is incorrect, both at the event and on the webpage they said that “titanium is 45% lighter than steel”.
They did not say the watch was 45% lighter, just that the material “titanium” is lighter.
Very roughly Titanium has about twice the mass of aluminum and about half that of steel.
It’s exceptional quality is NOT being light, it is being strong for it’s weight.
The weight of the titanium watch case falls about half way between the aluminum and steel models.
They could have taken advantage of this attribute and made the titanium watch lighter than the aluminum one. Doing so would have involved milling out much more material to give the case much thinner walls.
They apparently did not bother to do this. They just used it as a cosmetic option. If it does not have thinner walls the titanium case has way more strength and mass than necessary. This is a little sad from an engineering point of view and as for marketing; why call attention to the high strength to weight ratio of the material if you are not taking advantage of it?
Which reminds me. Does Series 5 have a flat bottom? I was expecting Apple to flatten the bottom this gen.
Example:
There is no way that Apple is going to have a special design for each watch case material.
i’ll tell you something, having owned a number of high end watches over the years. Watch case materials are all for cosmetics. There is no other reason. Titanium is no better a case material than anything else. Neither is gold, ceramic or even SS. Some of the most expensive watches use some variant of polymer for a case. It doesn’t matter. It’s all about the looks and feeling.
some people hate lightweight watches. Some hate heavy watches. Some want small, thin watches, and others want the opposite. There are those who want a rectangular watch, and some who think a watch must only be round. We still have people who think the only real watch is a mechanical one. There is no right or wrong to it.
you decide what you like, and buy it. That’s really all there is to it.
Milling our more space in the case may cause a number of practical problems to do with the ways internal parts are mounted into the case. I doubt Apple would have been very enthusiastic about having to customizing certain internal parts to fit a different internal case geometry for one model.