well I am very excited my Apple watch
edition has finally come and I wanted to
unbox it with a friend of mine here so I
have Ollie from designer watch repair
uh-huh of san luis obispo Ollie has been
fixing watches longer than I've been
alive yeah
only 60 years he is an expert watchmaker
and I you know for a high-end product
like this I thought that would be very
interesting to get an outside
perspective in addition to my thought on
the watch so when we got it Apple had
been saying well we have to send a
special courier out they actually
delayed the delivery of the sentient
normal UPS it would have come last week
but it didn't come until today because
they wanted a special courier to come I
was saying what's the courier going to
look like is he one of the Apple
geniuses that you pulled off the line
they said no it's going to be a special
courier that wouldn't tell me any more
information except that he would be
dressed in business casual clothes he
absolutely was not dressed business
casual he was wearing a t-shirt and
shorts and he took a very fast cursory
look at my driver's license and then
handed me this $10,800 Apple watch and I
thought that the packaging would be a
little bit more impressive this is I
think it's got more labels on it than a
typical UPS package okay so that's the
Box let's get inside we have a pull tab
okay put the cardboard work there we go
Apple watch edition 18 38 millimeter 18
karat yellow gold we have some kind of
fancy wrapped plastic thing I have no
desire to wear this watch so this is
purely for the edification of the
audience and then we are sending this
back to Apple leave a cube of plastic
okay for the reveal it's got some heft
to it
I like the whiteness of the packaging we
have a okay so we have our charge
charger the charger is not made of gold
okay so you've got the charger in the
manuals and everything in there I mean
it's a nice cube so what's fancy about
this box is that it has a charger built
into the box and ah
this is the evidence that you open the
package okay here we go I a moment of
truth okay it is gold it is golden color
I don't read French it's only in French
very French and Italian this is a
service says anti-tarnish shipping
filter discard after unboxing so is it
gold has a gold tarnishes so they want
to shoot not gold should not tarnish 18
karat gold no way so they got that both
on the watch band and I know something
about jewelry as well I'm a certified
master jeweler there's not that many of
us in this country so I know about gold
that's not tarnish abou oh there you go
so it's interesting that they would push
put an anti-tarnish I mean maybe they
just don't want scuffs on the packaging
well it's I mean the gold looks pristine
finish as you would expect just no pits
no promises no dings now I feel it
actually feels feels okay
I'm surprised try that it's definitely
God I have to do it yeah ergonomically
speaking it's it's comfortable so fine I
mean my wrist is substantially heavier
with us on you can feel it I can't stop
thinking but that it's just a temporary
item because it kind of the battery is
not every everything about it is you
know the technology I'm I'm thinking
that in two three years
to be outdated right so I wonder if
they're gonna have a program of
upgrading they haven't said anything you
would think you buy an $11,000 watch and
it doesn't make sense financially that's
just Mike Lee so do you think it makes
sense to buy a $10,000 Rolex yeah
because you can pass it on to your
grandkids great-grandkids it's something
that sticks around how long is just
going to stick around right what do you
think I mean so looking at the the
finish and how does this compare it to
the finish on other gold watches that
you actually I'm impressed it did I had
a lot of high high expend watches and
the finish is great I can't I can't
question it so let's turn it on here and
so these sensors here it has a built in
pulse sensor and we believe it has a
pulse oximeter so I can actually tell
your blood oxygen level but the FDA is
not letting them broadcast that
capability Oh interesting
so it's made for sports minded people
actively that's the ideas it has a
fitness tracker on okay good right
and I'll for a high end Rolex to be
designed for use in sports no no only
water resistance durability so I don't
know but durability of this I don't know
how much impact it can this is supposed
to be IP 77 rated scratch resist so this
sapphire got saffron the font so this is
our touch screen so long push so what do
you think of the feel of the crown
um I'm actually impressed it feels nice
I think they machined it well and it's
so smooth you know you kind of have to
look to see if it's turning and so when
you're picking up a new watch like yeah
what what are the things that you look
for if someone brings in watching for
repair maybe they want to they want to
get it appraised whatever I'd look to
see how I can service it how I can open
it and then after that I look to see
what is if anything serviceable in it
I'm used to watches that I can service
this one I don't think there is anything
serviceable in did you see our teardown
there are as you showed you yeah yeah
it's just so you cut in around the edge
I have part of the concern with a watch
like this is we're pretty confident we
can open the aluminum watch Ryan get it
back together but we're a little more
concerned about using that process on a
watch this expensive the gold will
definitely show March no matter how
compact the metal is it's still gonna
flare from the sharp tools that you use
to try to open it so with the normal
repair your you have to get inside and
and leave no trace leave the watch
pristine just the way you found it so
what's the normal process that you use
to get into a gold watch there are tools
that are similar to a sharper knife
wedged so that you can actually pop the
case open without leaving any marks if
done properly and there there's no place
I don't think this was designed with
service in mind yeah I would think
without the doubt you're gonna damage
the the crystal in opening it so so I
think when they're charging two thousand
dollars for service on them they're just
going to replace the top
because or they break they'll break it
and they just put another one on there
and that's just something that boggles
my mind how this okay so every every
watchmaker or every watch manufacturer
likes to say that they have a special
goal that's better than every other goal
on the market have you seen these claims
come and go apple claims that this is
some new you know super durable more
scratch resistant 18 karat gold ah yet
metallurgists are coming out with
different alloys constantly and they
make the claims but still gold is gold
18 parts of 24 parts is pure gold and
that soft stuff there's no way you can
make it hard enough or scratch resist so
your customers that are collectors do
you think this is the sort of thing that
would do well on a watch collection hmm
now collectors are always looking for
durability and longevity blonde Jeff it
is it is a key they don't throw money
and we're collectors one unless I don't
know 100 and I don't know what any
collector would see in this now you're
accustomed to swapping out batteries and
quartz watches right so this is like
that and that it's a battery but what
why do you think I mean we're looking at
this and they lose it around around the
outside to get into it I mean every
watch has to as a way to get in saying
this is a more challenging way to get
into this watch than any watch you've
ever seen I don't think you can get into
this without leaving a mark and that's
always my concern how can I get into
this watch without leaving the footprint
and from what I see you would have to
pop the glass off the sapphire interface
you have to pop that off I don't see any
other
a of getting into this possibly the back
but I don't know what's behind this you
can what would tear out well and so we
can we can compare it to I have so this
is the packaging on an apple sport watch
you can see the difference in the
packaging and then I have here this is a
there and then this is the other we
disassembled and so you can see you have
to get the entire thing out before you
can get to the sensors on the bottom
oh yeah the back is a head of question
totally and generally you know in my
business we joke about parts that are
glued together hey it's not so they're
not they're not normally glued together
yeah you don't see watches that are
glued together so that's not that's like
never it's it's a joke because no one
would be crazy enough to do that no you
you you have the machine parts that snap
into each other and there is rubber
gaskets in between sometimes you have
hard plastic gaskets that actually parts
snap into but to have things glued
together I'd in my business that's
unprofessional so do you think the
design process on this are they I mean
they just decided they don't care about
serviceability or I think non
watchmakers designed this watch non
jeweler's non watchmakers you know a
bunch of it's great you know a bunch of
Engineers fresh mind you know they went
to work and they created something it's
just that they did parts of it is
unprofessional well so you have you have
this incredibly sophisticated complex
device right this is the apex of modern
technology right and yet it's it's
temporal it's designed to last eighteen
months to the three years right
technology will definitely make outdated
in no time and I've seen examples of it
Pulsar for example was invented by Texas
Instrument original the first digital
watch ever there's hardly any memory of
it well they were expensive they even
made gold right I had one and I ended up
melting the gold that finally about four
years ago I couldn't get that second
parts for it you know they disappeared
off the market and so that one night I
was like that's this is I mean this
reminds me of the poster the first
digital watch now we got a really
complicated high tech watch yeah ten
years people are going to forget about
these ever coming around well this is
either the future of your industry or a
momentary blip in the road I think it's
a momentary blip in the road because
I've seen them come and go you know
generally yeah there's no longevity in
it so one thing we've seen with apples
designs time and time again they'll come
out with the product and it's a version
one and we pick it the flaws and we say
wow it does this but the battery life
isn't quite there and next year they'll
be out with a better one and they keep
incrementally working at it and give
them five years and they'll have
something phenomenal I mean this is this
could be something that's so amazing and
I'm so optimistic for Apple to create
useful products that stand Alessa at
time it's definitely interesting you
know if I you had everything else in the
world this would be on this if you have
one of everything why not have one of
these right but there are maybe a lot of
other things on the list before this off
for me you know I'm a sailor you know
the bigger the boat yeah you bet I am
okay so how about this how big a boat
can I get for $11,000 I got a 25-footer
I'll sell you for that I can't use do
another new I think I would take a boat
over a watch any day of the week okay
all right we got ourselves a deal I'll
trade you the watch how about that I'll
trade you the watch for your boat
yeah I'll take it okay