It seems that the path of roses that he was walking the Apple Watch It has been truncated with the reports of certain users of the Sport model who have been affected by an accelerated wear of the coating of their Apple Watch. We can talk about possible corrosion of the back surface of the watch, right where the serigraphy with the serial number and the Apple logo is.
This could be due to the continuous contact with the sweat on the wrist, which could be causing excess humidity that, together with the salts of the sweat, could be causing the corrosion of a thin layer of the surface of the Apple Watch. Definitely a big problem for those from Cupertino if this begins to occur in all units that are already in circulation.
There are already several users who have reported in Apple's online support that their Apple Watch units are suffering from the erasure of the subsequent silkscreen, the one around the Ion-X crystal, even chipping the surface layer of the aluminum.
In most cases the only part of the silkscreen that has been affected corresponds exactly to the area where the Apple logo is although in many other cases the problem has already spread to the rest of the text. We are talking about a possible incompatibility between the surface of the Apple Watch Sport and the technique that has been used to make the screen printing.
According to what we have been able to learn, one of those affected has contacted Apple and the response he has received is that they will deliver a replacement unit to be able to study what happened to the damaged unit. The Apple representative has asked the user in what conditions and the characteristics of the weather where he has used it as well as the activity levels to which he has exposed his Apple Watch.
For now the only problems that have been reported are located in the Apple Watch Sport model in space gray color. Keep in mind that in the Sport model the text is printed while in the steel model the text is engraved with a laser.
Interesting publication.
A small correction is that the printing technique is not screen printing, if not pad printing.
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And is this going to replace premium watches? I'm a big apple fan but does this device compare to a premium watch? Hello? I do not give credit, that does not happen even to the seediest Lotus ... Anyway ...
Not only are they having problems with pad printing! I have an Apple Watch Sport in space gray, which I use very lightly, and the "Fluoroelastomer" strap will peel, fade and get strange marks in just 2 weeks! ! I've been with it for 1 and 20 days and I have already changed 3 straps !! Besides, I am not the only one, there are more and more cases, in the Apple support they already talk about it ...
By the way, another point… .the rear part is not Ion-X, it is Composite in the Sport model and ceramic in the rest !!
They have me very burned ...
Believe it or not, I bought the Apple Watch on June 26 in Puerta del Sol and what you say happened to me. I called AppleCare and they said they are going to see what they can do because AppleCare does not cover "cosmetic" defects. I have been stunned when it is clearly seen that it is a problem of corrosion of the paint that has been used on the adonized aluminum. Pieces of the watch fall out as is. Mine has already lost the apple and is spreading to the letters.
At 29 days, the same happened to me as the one in the first photo. Peeled apple apple. They were looking at it in Apple Store Valencia and they kept it, a week they gave me another refurbished or go to know. The fact is that a month has passed again and I see the back apple a little strange, we know that if I clean it with a cloth the paint may come off. There is no right, I hope that if they happen to me again they will assume the substitution. My model is space gray. (Dark gray)
Greetings and good luck
P.S. These Apple will play that if you have a tap somewhere they will tell you that it is beaten and others and if you have the peeling you will get annoyed without change. I hope nothing is made up.
In my case it is worse since at least in these cases the peelings are not seen but in mine the same color was unused hair in the front where it is seen at first glance, and the specialized agent of apple says that this is because they are made of aluminum and that is normal after 3 months and that it is something purely aesthetic, it seems somewhat laughable that a watch that in the end is not so cheap is stripped because the material chosen by the factory is not the best