I have been using the Apple Watch Series 7 for almost 3 years without any complaints, nor had a yearning to upgrade. However, the battery health went down gradually over the years. Eventually, at 79% health, I couldn’t even complete a 10k with it playing music while connected to LTE. Fighting back the urge to get the Series 9 or Ultra 2, I decided to wait for the Apple Watch Series 10 and buy that. Strangely in Thailand, it was launched much later, even after India.
Since I experienced a financial windfall, I decided to move up to the Titanium variant.
My views on the watch
- Titanium is absolutely gorgeous. As you can see in the photos above, the watch has a golden hue in warm lighting and silver in cool lighting. At some angles, looks jet black, too.
- The titanium chassis is much lighter than the Stainless-Steel variant (Which I had the Series 4 in). I found it hardly any heavier than Aluminium variant.
- I had planned to use the Milanese Loop only when going out and my old Braided Solo Loop all other times for comfort. However, I found the Milanese loop much more comfortable than I had assumed, so I almost always wear that.
- Wrist temperature monitoring is good to have, but I wasn’t yearning for it.
- I can see the difference in screen size, but don’t find it revolutionary. I thought it would look comically big on my wrist, but thankfully, doesn’t. The bigger bezels are also hardly noticeable.
- I don’t find the watch any faster or any better in any other way.
- I don’t see any changes or improvements to exercise tracking (Except the better battery life, of course).
- I can’t remember to use the pinch gestures to decline calls etc.
Overall, I can say that the upgrade from Aluminium to Titanium is a bigger upgrade, compared to technical improvements (From Series 7 to Series 10) which are nice-to-have but not revolutionary.