A YouTuber has put Apple’s claims for the sturdiness of the Apple Watch Extremely to the check by placing it up in opposition to a drop check, a jar of nails, and repeated hits with a hammer to check the sapphire crystal glass.

TechRax, a channel widespread for testing the sturdiness of merchandise, first examined the ‌Apple Watch Extremely‌ by dropping it from round 4 ft excessive. The ‌Apple Watch Extremely‌ was left principally unscuffed, moreover some dents alongside the titanium casing from the drop. Subsequent, the ‌Apple Watch Extremely‌ was combined round in a jar of nails and, as soon as once more, was left with no seen marks.

TechRax additionally examined the sturdiness of the ‌Apple Watch Extremely‌’s sapphire crystal show by repeatedly hitting it with a hammer. Within the check, the watch withstood repeated hits with the hammer till it lastly cracked after repeated blows, solely after the desk took some harm first.

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Whereas the ‌Apple Watch Extremely‌’s show didn’t initially take harm, the watch did fail to activate after repeated hits. The failure to energy on might point out that whereas the glass could not have damaged at first, some inner parts could have confronted harm. After all, the check is unrealistic in portraying a typical use case of the ‌Apple Watch Extremely‌, however it might present some prospects reassurance for the power of the sapphire crystal show.

Apple claims the ‌Apple Watch Extremely‌ is its most rugged, sturdy, and excessive Apple Watch but and is aimed to compete straight with Garmin. In response to the ‌Apple Watch Extremely‌, Garmin mentioned it measures battery life in “months” and never “hours.” The ‌Apple Watch Extremely‌ begins at $799 and commenced arriving to prospects this Friday.

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