Sport Band Sizes Feature Offset Holes

Blogger Mark Miller, one of our favorite Twitter friends, has discovered an interesting design consideration regarding the Apple Watch’s (er, Marc Newson’s) excellent Sport band. Here it is:

The implications, of course, are that users with medium-sized wrists (which likely constitute a large majority) might get a better fit with one of the two different Sport Bands outside of overall length considerations. Because the holes are exactly offset in comparison when measured from the Band end (the part that slots into the Apple Watch chassis), that means that if your wrist diameter falls within that central range, you can fine-tune the fit more than you probably thought.

While I can get away with using any of three different holes on my M/L Sport Band (especially since I turned off the Passcode lock), I can only use the first hole on the S/M size. That means that I can’t personally test how well this approach works. But logic dictates that it ought to work quite well, the only snag being that some users might prefer the hole placement of the M/L Band to that of the shorter version but are turned off by the greater heft and thickness that the excess material presents when tucked.

Still, it’s a nice touch, and it demonstrates just how well thought-out Apple Watch really is.