{"id":3013,"date":"2016-04-20T07:27:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/20\/fake-apple-watch-band-has-the-look-of-luxury-but-how-does-it-feel\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T07:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T23:27:15","slug":"fake-apple-watch-band-has-the-look-of-luxury-but-how-does-it-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/20\/fake-apple-watch-band-has-the-look-of-luxury-but-how-does-it-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Apple Watch band has the look of luxury, but how does it feel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We would never, ever tell you to buy a fake Apple Watch<\/a> band. But if you must, we think we’ve found the absolute winner<\/p>\n

Apple’s popular steel Milanese Loop sells for $149, but a seller on Amazon<\/a> is offering an amazingly well done replica for a mere $16<\/p>\n

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See also: That cool Apple Watch battery charger band just got canceled<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But for $16, surely the replica is a poor knockoff, right? After getting the initial tip regarding the band from Apple enthusiast Jim Dalrymple’s site<\/a> (via<\/a> WatchAware), I decided to give it a try<\/p>\n

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The real Apple Watch Milanese Loop<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>

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Image: Apple<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Among my Apple Watch owning colleagues, I was well suited for the task, as I dove into the third-party Apple Watch band market early. My first experience, a brown leather band (an original, not a replica) offered for around $50 by a company in China was a bust. When I got the band it looked and felt amazing \u2014 until the lugs on the connector broke after wearing it just a couple of times. It was then that I decided that third-party Apple Watch bands weren’t for me Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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We would never, ever tell you to buy a fake Apple Watch band. But if you must, we think we’ve found the absolute winner Apple’s popular steel Milanese Loop sells for $149, but a seller on Amazon is offering an … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2217,852,723,726,725],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-accessories","tag-apple","tag-fashion","tag-gadgets","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}