The Apple Watch: A Test of Durability

Let's go ahead and drop this guy was heght three 2 1 oh okay not bad so there's a scuff right there on the aluminium border let's go ahead and drop this one more time see if it can hold up try and get it more centered uh here we go going in 3 2 1 not bad so I can visibly see right here that there are scratches from the impact onto the concrete from about waist height border around the display gets chipped easily overall though wow I'm surprised scratches appear on the screen from where it dropped but it's holding up well the back doesn't seem quite as durable as the front it does scratch easily but of course this thing is geared more towards shatter resistance so why not let's go ahead and do one more drop just to get the final conclusive results so waist high putting it on and it falls out okay looks like I hit the other corner now so the glass has chipped right there in the corner it does Chip easily does scratch easily but it does not shatter so after three drops waist height this thing is still working and I'm pretty impressed looks good but I have one final test for this guy how will it fit when we drag it behind a car all right so uh we're going to see how this thing fares if it's being dragged across the road from a vehicle we're going to go ahead and tie it to it and see just how durable this thing really is how much scratches and bumps this thing could finally take before giving in and shattering either the back or the front anyways uh here we go it's about 10 ft behind the car cut this guy tie it to here all right so uh here it is let's go ahead and set this guy down oh my gosh the back has held up pretty well you can see some really deep scratches in there let's try it face down on the front and I thought it'd flip over but it didn't let's do the same thing ouch it's dirty so uh the front looks to be in working condition wow that's not that bad I thought it'd be worse yeah there's a lot of deep scratches on it but they're not so long they're really short the aluminium borders man they're they're so scratched this thing and let's go ahead and set this guy up and I'm going to see if the heart rate sensor still works after all this abuse but overall display is working you know it is scratched but it's still usable after all this abuse I'm surprised it's still surviving all right so uh here I have the Apple watch I just wanted to get it in a little bit more detail to show you guys the scratches true extent of dropping it dragging it behind your car and having it in a case full of bolts so uh the display does work you know there's no difference there but the band is really dirty it's going to be hard to clean it up and I'm not so sure that all of the dirt will get out of there but overall the display is pretty scratched up the iron strengthen glass doesn't do very well when it comes to scratches and the backing the coating the laminate is coming off it hasn't cracked or anything but it's coming off in many different places I'm going to go ahead and see if that works the heart rate sensor but overall pretty rough condition does work though so here it is so saying it's measuring if this works I will be very surprised after being dropped dunked in water sitting there all day dragged behind a car so uh looks like it hasn't worked there maybe it's cuz it's not tight enough I'm going to try and put it one notch in yeah it looks like it I think it might be busted I cannot get my heart rate to be R I'm going to try pressing it in right here one final time but I don't think it'll work maybe it's because I don't oh oh wow there we go so it does work but I got to press it in really hard I was pressing it in pretty hard so that actually does work but I don't know for some reason it wasn't working very well just holding it there so there we go guys it has held up despite all the damage and scratches to drop tests and overall I would trust this thing to daily usage I mean a year from now I think this thing is still going to look really good all right so thanks for watching guys we really appreciate it as you can see the Apple watch can certainly take a lot of torture from scratches to drops to water this thing is very durable at least the sport edition I'm curious to see how the Apple watch Edition will hold up in comparison to this but overall good job Apple very good durability anyways thanks for watching guys have a great day and enjoy your Apple watches if you have one peace

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys everything Apple Pro here and today I want to do a durability test on Apple's brand new Apple watch sport edition so we're going to be doing several tests to see how this thing is going to hold up in the long run a year from now is your Apple watch going to survive everything life has to throw at it so we're going to be doing some scratch test even a drop test basically see how much impact this display can take before shattering and this is by the way the ion strengthen glass apple has chose to replace the sapphire glass in the higher end models with ion strengthened glass used on the iPhone 6 in order to maintain a higher shatter resistance as you guys know sappire is better for Scratch resistance so we're going to see how this thing holds up to scratches not only the display also the body and by the way this is the sport 38 mm the one that survived the water test the other day surprisingly these things are more durable than Apple's letting on about them let's go ahead and run through some tests and see how this thing holds up to scratches drops basically what life has to throw at it all right so here I've got an assortment of screws Nails just a bunch of bolts and metal bits basically I want to do an accelerated scratch test the display on the Apple watch sport isn't geared very well towards scratches and in day-to-day usage you're going to bump it on things you're going to scratch this thing the band itself and I want to see in an accelerated scratch test how well this thing is going to hold up to a whole bunch of metal you know going at it from many angles and over the months is this thing going to look just as good as when you got it out of the box is it going to hold up well to time all right so here it is it's in setup mode basically when you take it out of the box this is what it's going to look like overall 38 mm in very good good cosmetic shape it's brand new let's go ahead and set this guy in here couple uh bolts and things on there all right seal this guy up and uh about 10 seconds I think should do and uh let me put it face down to all right that should be adequate oh it's dirty so um let's take a look see how this thing fared so the band looks like it man this thing absorbs dirt very well the sport band anyways it's going to need some water to clean it but let's take a closer look see if there's any scrp just looks like the glass actually did crack right here wow it's really brittle on the sport edition this is actually made of a different material on the more expensive versions but yeah there's a lot of scratches on the sides here actual borders didn't hold up very well the band is very dirty there's a actual glass crack down here and the display has a scratch that I can see right here other than that there's a minor scratch held up pretty well not I don't see anything else the body itself man this thing is pretty scratched up looks like it's you know several months old already and I'm sure the band will clean up nice but it does attract quite a lot of dirt overall though I am uh pretty impressed there's a pretty extreme condition pretty extreme scratch test and it held up very well and just to give you guys a little closer look there is a chip in the actual glass backing which is kind of disappointing I wonder if it'll interfere with the heart rate sensor we'll test that at the end but anyways uh overall though not too bad all right I just wanted to see how this band would clean up if the dirt was ingrained in it wow it's actually tougher than I thought looks like it has impacted the color a little bit in my experience using even Apple iPhone cases they uh leather ones and the soft silicone they get dirty over time and it's very hard to clean them looks like it's the same with this when it scratches the dirt gets in there and it's really hard to remove it all so I do understand it's not a very common occurrence to drop a watch I mean it's attached to your wrist but I want to see how the screen will take shock so it's very likely you'll hit the Apple watch on something I've used the watches in the past and you know it is very common to you know bump your hand on something and hit it so I want to do the same however the only way I can do that accurately is to drop it if I were to swing my hand it would swing with varying amounts of force I couldn't really tell you but gravity you know it'll do the trick for us so I'm going to try and drop it face down and see how it holds up going to do a couple of those uh first let's do backend so to test that little heart rate sensor okay so this is about waist height you know where you'd be applying the watch to your wrist and say slipped and it fell okay so here we go waist height drop in three 2 one okay I got to tell you this backing it takes scratches in very well so there's a Nick probably from the concrete right there and that's from the previous test the coating is actually coming off of the glass interesting but did not crack let's try the front end Test Now is working just to show you guys whoops all right so let's go ahead and perform a waist height Apple watch drop test so this is about the height where you'd be applying the watch to your wrist and say it falls out slips out of your grasp and lands face first and by the way this is the sport edition so again this thing is geared towards shatter resistance not so much for Scratch resistance the Apple watch Edition will yield a different result anyways so here we go let's go ahead and drop this guy was heght three 2 1 oh okay not bad so there's a scuff right there on the aluminium border let's go ahead and drop this one more time see if it can hold up try and get it more centered uh here we go going in 3 2 1 not bad so I can visibly see right here that there are scratches from the impact onto the concrete from about waist height border around the display gets chipped easily overall though wow I'm surprised scratches appear on the screen from where it dropped but it's holding up well the back doesn't seem quite as durable as the front it does scratch easily but of course this thing is geared more towards shatter resistance so why not let's go ahead and do one more drop just to get the final conclusive results so waist high putting it on and it falls out okay looks like I hit the other corner now so the glass has chipped right there in the corner it does Chip easily does scratch easily but it does not shatter so after three drops waist height this thing is still working and I'm pretty impressed looks good but I have one final test for this guy how will it fit when we drag it behind a car all right so uh we're going to see how this thing fares if it's being dragged across the road from a vehicle we're going to go ahead and tie it to it and see just how durable this thing really is how much scratches and bumps this thing could finally take before giving in and shattering either the back or the front anyways uh here we go it's about 10 ft behind the car cut this guy tie it to here all right so uh here it is let's go ahead and set this guy down oh my gosh the back has held up pretty well you can see some really deep scratches in there let's try it face down on the front and I thought it'd flip over but it didn't let's do the same thing ouch it's dirty so uh the front looks to be in working condition wow that's not that bad I thought it'd be worse yeah there's a lot of deep scratches on it but they're not so long they're really short the aluminium borders man they're they're sh I mean they're so scratched this thing and let's go ahead and set this guy up and I'm going to see if the heart rate sensor still works after all this abuse but overall display is working you know it is scratched but it's still usable after all this abuse I'm surprised it's still surviving all right so uh here I have the Apple watch I just wanted to get it in a little bit more detail to show you guys the scratches true extent of dropping it dragging it behind your car and having it in a case full of bolts so uh the display does work you know there's no difference there but the band is really dirty it's going to be hard to clean it up and I'm not so sure that all of the dirt will get out of there but overall the display is pretty scratched up the iron strengthen glass doesn't do very well when it comes to scratches and the backing the coating the laminate is coming off it hasn't cracked or anything but it's coming off in many different places I'm going to go ahead and see if that works the heart rate sensor but overall pretty rough condition does work though so here it is so saying it's measuring if this works I will be very surprised after being dropped dunked in water sitting there all day dragged behind a car so uh looks like it hasn't worked there maybe it's cuz it's not tight enough I'm going to try and put it one notch in yeah it looks like it I think it might be busted I cannot get my heart rate to be R I'm going to try pressing it in right here one final time but I don't think it'll work maybe it's because I don't oh oh wow there we go so it does work but I got to press it in really hard I was pressing it in pretty hard so that actually does work but I don't know for some reason it wasn't working very well just holding it there so there we go guys it has held up despite all the damage and scratches to drop tests and overall I would trust this thing to daily usage I mean a year from now I think this thing is still going to look really good all right so thanks for watching guys we really appreciate it as you can see the Apple watch can certainly take a lot of torture from scratches to drops to water this thing is very durable at least the sport edition I'm curious to see how the Apple watch Edition will hold up in comparison to this but overall good job Apple very good durability anyways thanks for watching guys have a great day and enjoy your Apple watches if you have one peacewhat's up guys everything Apple Pro here and today I want to do a durability test on Apple's brand new Apple watch sport edition so we're going to be doing several tests to see how this thing is going to hold up in the long run a year from now is your Apple watch going to survive everything life has to throw at it so we're going to be doing some scratch test even a drop test basically see how much impact this display can take before shattering and this is by the way the ion strengthen glass apple has chose to replace the sapphire glass in the higher end models with ion strengthened glass used on the iPhone 6 in order to maintain a higher shatter resistance as you guys know sappire is better for Scratch resistance so we're going to see how this thing holds up to scratches not only the display also the body and by the way this is the sport 38 mm the one that survived the water test the other day surprisingly these things are more durable than Apple's letting on about them let's go ahead and run through some tests and see how this thing holds up to scratches drops basically what life has to throw at it all right so here I've got an assortment of screws Nails just a bunch of bolts and metal bits basically I want to do an accelerated scratch test the display on the Apple watch sport isn't geared very well towards scratches and in day-to-day usage you're going to bump it on things you're going to scratch this thing the band itself and I want to see in an accelerated scratch test how well this thing is going to hold up to a whole bunch of metal you know going at it from many angles and over the months is this thing going to look just as good as when you got it out of the box is it going to hold up well to time all right so here it is it's in setup mode basically when you take it out of the box this is what it's going to look like overall 38 mm in very good good cosmetic shape it's brand new let's go ahead and set this guy in here couple uh bolts and things on there all right seal this guy up and uh about 10 seconds I think should do and uh let me put it face down to all right that should be adequate oh it's dirty so um let's take a look see how this thing fared so the band looks like it man this thing absorbs dirt very well the sport band anyways it's going to need some water to clean it but let's take a closer look see if there's any scrp just looks like the glass actually did crack right here wow it's really brittle on the sport edition this is actually made of a different material on the more expensive versions but yeah there's a lot of scratches on the sides here actual borders didn't hold up very well the band is very dirty there's a actual glass crack down here and the display has a scratch that I can see right here other than that there's a minor scratch held up pretty well not I don't see anything else the body itself man this thing is pretty scratched up looks like it's you know several months old already and I'm sure the band will clean up nice but it does attract quite a lot of dirt overall though I am uh pretty impressed there's a pretty extreme condition pretty extreme scratch test and it held up very well and just to give you guys a little closer look there is a chip in the actual glass backing which is kind of disappointing I wonder if it'll interfere with the heart rate sensor we'll test that at the end but anyways uh overall though not too bad all right I just wanted to see how this band would clean up if the dirt was ingrained in it wow it's actually tougher than I thought looks like it has impacted the color a little bit in my experience using even Apple iPhone cases they uh leather ones and the soft silicone they get dirty over time and it's very hard to clean them looks like it's the same with this when it scratches the dirt gets in there and it's really hard to remove it all so I do understand it's not a very common occurrence to drop a watch I mean it's attached to your wrist but I want to see how the screen will take shock so it's very likely you'll hit the Apple watch on something I've used the watches in the past and you know it is very common to you know bump your hand on something and hit it so I want to do the same however the only way I can do that accurately is to drop it if I were to swing my hand it would swing with varying amounts of force I couldn't really tell you but gravity you know it'll do the trick for us so I'm going to try and drop it face down and see how it holds up going to do a couple of those uh first let's do backend so to test that little heart rate sensor okay so this is about waist height you know where you'd be applying the watch to your wrist and say slipped and it fell okay so here we go waist height drop in three 2 one okay I got to tell you this backing it takes scratches in very well so there's a Nick probably from the concrete right there and that's from the previous test the coating is actually coming off of the glass interesting but did not crack let's try the front end Test Now is working just to show you guys whoops all right so let's go ahead and perform a waist height Apple watch drop test so this is about the height where you'd be applying the watch to your wrist and say it falls out slips out of your grasp and lands face first and by the way this is the sport edition so again this thing is geared towards shatter resistance not so much for Scratch resistance the Apple watch Edition will yield a different result anyways so here we go let's go ahead and drop this guy was heght three 2 1 oh okay not bad so there's a scuff right there on the aluminium border let's go ahead and drop this one more time see if it can hold up try and get it more centered uh here we go going in 3 2 1 not bad so I can visibly see right here that there are scratches from the impact onto the concrete from about waist height border around the display gets chipped easily overall though wow I'm surprised scratches appear on the screen from where it dropped but it's holding up well the back doesn't seem quite as durable as the front it does scratch easily but of course this thing is geared more towards shatter resistance so why not let's go ahead and do one more drop just to get the final conclusive results so waist high putting it on and it falls out okay looks like I hit the other corner now so the glass has chipped right there in the corner it does Chip easily does scratch easily but it does not shatter so after three drops waist height this thing is still working and I'm pretty impressed looks good but I have one final test for this guy how will it fit when we drag it behind a car all right so uh we're going to see how this thing fares if it's being dragged across the road from a vehicle we're going to go ahead and tie it to it and see just how durable this thing really is how much scratches and bumps this thing could finally take before giving in and shattering either the back or the front anyways uh here we go it's about 10 ft behind the car cut this guy tie it to here all right so uh here it is let's go ahead and set this guy down oh my gosh the back has held up pretty well you can see some really deep scratches in there let's try it face down on the front and I thought it'd flip over but it didn't let's do the same thing ouch it's dirty so uh the front looks to be in working condition wow that's not that bad I thought it'd be worse yeah there's a lot of deep scratches on it but they're not so long they're really short the aluminium borders man they're they're sh I mean they're so scratched this thing and let's go ahead and set this guy up and I'm going to see if the heart rate sensor still works after all this abuse but overall display is working you know it is scratched but it's still usable after all this abuse I'm surprised it's still surviving all right so uh here I have the Apple watch I just wanted to get it in a little bit more detail to show you guys the scratches true extent of dropping it dragging it behind your car and having it in a case full of bolts so uh the display does work you know there's no difference there but the band is really dirty it's going to be hard to clean it up and I'm not so sure that all of the dirt will get out of there but overall the display is pretty scratched up the iron strengthen glass doesn't do very well when it comes to scratches and the backing the coating the laminate is coming off it hasn't cracked or anything but it's coming off in many different places I'm going to go ahead and see if that works the heart rate sensor but overall pretty rough condition does work though so here it is so saying it's measuring if this works I will be very surprised after being dropped dunked in water sitting there all day dragged behind a car so uh looks like it hasn't worked there maybe it's cuz it's not tight enough I'm going to try and put it one notch in yeah it looks like it I think it might be busted I cannot get my heart rate to be R I'm going to try pressing it in right here one final time but I don't think it'll work maybe it's because I don't oh oh wow there we go so it does work but I got to press it in really hard I was pressing it in pretty hard so that actually does work but I don't know for some reason it wasn't working very well just holding it there so there we go guys it has held up despite all the damage and scratches to drop tests and overall I would trust this thing to daily usage I mean a year from now I think this thing is still going to look really good all right so thanks for watching guys we really appreciate it as you can see the Apple watch can certainly take a lot of torture from scratches to drops to water this thing is very durable at least the sport edition I'm curious to see how the Apple watch Edition will hold up in comparison to this but overall good job Apple very good durability anyways thanks for watching guys have a great day and enjoy your Apple watches if you have one peace\n"