{"id":166331,"date":"2022-12-23T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-apple-watch-ultra-is-more-similar-to-a-series-7-edition-than-you-might-think\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:10:07","slug":"the-apple-watch-ultra-is-more-similar-to-a-series-7-edition-than-you-might-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-apple-watch-ultra-is-more-similar-to-a-series-7-edition-than-you-might-think\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apple Watch Ultra is more similar to a Series 7 Edition than you might think"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Apple Watch Ultra is a very good smartwatch. It’s got loads of features, very long battery life, a titanium shell, and a distinctive design. You can read all about how good it is in my colleague Victoria Song’s review from earlier this fall. Be sure to check out the feature-length video review we recently published that does a deeper dive into Apple’s unique claims for the Ultra.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But as good as the Apple Watch Ultra is, it’s not the Apple Watch for me. I’m not an adventurous athlete and have no aspirations to be, but I am both a smartwatch devotee and an appreciator of fine mechanical watches (that, let’s be real, I won’t ever be able to afford). The Ultra should<\/em> appeal to me based on those merits \u2014 after all, nobody dives with a Rolex Submariner on their wrist, despite the fact that it’s considered a \u201cdive\u201d watch in the mechanical world. The Ultra’s top-of-the-range status, larger-than-normal design, and larger-than-life capabilities speak to many of the same factors for why large, showy dive watches are popular.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I had the opportunity to long-term demo the Ultra this fall, and while there are certain things I certainly like about it, a month on my wrist wasn’t enough to convince me to buy it. What it did convince me to do is find a secondhand Series 7 Edition and buy that instead. Here’s why.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There were three factors about the Ultra that I really liked: the large screen, the titanium frame, and the long battery life. During my time wearing the watch, I could easily go two-and-a-half days between charging it, even when I wore it overnight for its silent alarm function to wake me up. The screen is big, bright, and easy to read; the larger, more heavily knurled digital crown is fun to spin and click, and I didn’t have issues hitting the other buttons by accident when I bent my wrist, as I know others have run into. The matte finish on the titanium frame looks better than the shiny finish on Apple’s stainless steel models and feels nicer and more sturdy than the aluminum on the standard Apple Watch. It’s a nice balance between the two other metals Apple uses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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