Integrating an Apple Watch into the Rolex clasp

[bob99]

Wondering if anyone has designed an aftermarket solution that integrates the Apple watch into a Rolex bracelet?

I'm thinking something where it would replace the clasp, so you have what amounts to a double-sided watch, with the Apple watch on the inside of the wrist.

I love my Rolex and don't plan to stop wearing it, but I'm looking for a way to integrate the fitness tracking of the Apple watch without wearing two watches.

I realize this is ridiculous. Thank you for your consideration :)

[Easy E]

[zewill]

Originally Posted by Easy E

Exactly. This forum and threads get dumber by the day…

[Chewbacca]

I think we’ll see something down the road but in reality making an Apple Watch look like a Rolex or other timepiece would make more practical sense imop

[yuk0nxl1]

Think this be too much bulk.

Mont Blanc tried something similar a few years back with their smart clasp, but it fell flat on its face.

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/montbla...ment-platform/

Last year I read an article about a company that can turn any watch into a smartwatch with a coin sized monitor that is applied on a caseback. Could not find the link to this but their demo was on the Polor Explorer II.


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[Potawatomi]

This is what has become of TRF.

[Wahlberg]

Originally Posted by Potawatomi

This is what has become of TRF.

Yet when Buzz Aldrin does it with two watches on 1 bracelet it's all cool and dandy, right.

[ratty]

Originally Posted by Wahlberg

Yet when Buzz Aldrin does it with two watches on 1 bracelet it's all cool and dandy, right.

Do you really think so?

[Potawatomi]

Originally Posted by Wahlberg

Yet when Buzz Aldrin does it with two watches on 1 bracelet it's all cool and dandy, right.

That's not cool at all.

[yuk0nxl1]

Originally Posted by Wahlberg

Yet when Buzz Aldrin does it with two watches on 1 bracelet it's all cool and dandy, right.

Sure about that... Looks like 3. Look at his left arm. You see a watch, 2 links then another watch on the same bracelet.


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[Wahlberg]

Originally Posted by yuk0nxl1

Sure about that... Looks like 3. Look at his left arm. You see a watch, 2 links then another watch on the same bracelet.


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You saw what I wrote right?

''with two watches on 1 bracelet''

[JerBear]

Originally Posted by Wahlberg

Yet when Buzz Aldrin does it with two watches on 1 bracelet it's all cool and dandy, right.

Less is more, Buzz. Less is more.

[doboy007]

Originally Posted by Potawatomi

This is what has become of TRF.

[brandrea]

Sorry, I just don’t see that ever happening.

[zengineer]

I don't want to be that connected. As. Joe Walsh put it....Just leave a message...maybe I'll call.

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[1665fan]

Fail….

[padi56]

Originally Posted by bob99

Wondering if anyone has designed an aftermarket solution that integrates the Apple watch into a Rolex bracelet?

I'm thinking something where it would replace the clasp, so you have what amounts to a double-sided watch, with the Apple watch on the inside of the wrist.

I love my Rolex and don't plan to stop wearing it, but I'm looking for a way to integrate the fitness tracking of the Apple watch without wearing two watches.

I realize this is ridiculous. Thank you for your consideration :)

Well as you quote I realize this is ridiculous.

[Kevin of Larchmont]

I invented this and built a working prototype but then I realized it was stupid and ugly so I hit it with a hammer and threw it into the river.

[Chester01]

Reality is we are all better off being more unplugged and less tracked. I don’t need a watch to tell me I’m slacking at the gym.

[thesharkfactor]

Only the man on the moon would do that.

[douglasf13]

The writing is on the wall, which is why I laugh a bit at the crazy prices people are paying for some mechanicals right now. While many of us aren't ready to wear smartwatches, myself included, there will be a tipping point where the health features will make them necessary for our lives, and I can see the price dropping right out of mechanicals. Apple is already the largest "watch" seller in the world, despite the product still being relatively immature.

As far as wearing an Apple Watch and Rolex at the same time? No thanks. At that point, it's a bit like pulling your vintage 911 around on a trailer behind your Tesla. If you desire wearing a smartwhatch, I'd just commit to it.

[Kevin of Larchmont]

Originally Posted by douglasf13

The writing is on the wall, which is why I laugh a bit at the crazy prices people are paying for some mechanicals right now. While many of us aren't ready to wear smartwatches, myself included, there will be a tipping point where the health features will make them necessary for our lives, and I can see the price dropping right out of mechanicals. Apple is already the largest "watch" seller in the world, despite the product still being relatively immature.

As far as wearing an Apple Watch and Rolex at the same time? No thanks. At that point, it's a bit like pulling your vintage 911 around on a trailer behind your Tesla. If you desire wearing a smartwhatch, I'd just commit to it.

The distinction is that an Apple Watch isn’t a watch, it’s a computer that you wear on your wrist. The corollary is quartz watches which many thought was the beginning of the end of mechanical watches and yet hear we sit writing and reading about them. And if it’s true that Apple “watches” overtake mechanical watches and supply drops then that will only increase the fervor of those who appreciate them. And as for health features being necessary, we’ve lived this long without them.

[douglasf13]

Originally Posted by Kevin of Larchmont

The distinction is that an Apple Watch isn’t a watch, it’s a computer that you wear on your wrist. The corollary is quartz watches which many thought was the beginning of the end of mechanical watches and yet hear we sit writing and reading about them. And if it’s true that Apple “watches” overtake mechanical watches and supply drops then that will only increase the fervor of those who appreciate them. And as for health features being necessary, we’ve lived this long without them.

Nah, it's not like the quartz crisis at all. With the quartz crisis, one could decide which type of watch to wear, but they essentially did the same thing, more or less, so mechanicals simply moved up market.

With the Apple Watch, which is very much still a "watch," you have a bevy of health and other features that are competing for wrist real estate, which is why you see posts like this from people who want stay interested in a somewhat esoteric hobby while simultaneously taking advantage of smartwatch features. Eventually, the mechanical watch will be the vestigial tail that falls off, just like my grandparents' currently-unused pocket watch succumbed to the wristwatch, the latter of which was seen as quite "feminine" for years prior.

[Kevin of Larchmont]

Originally Posted by douglasf13

Nah, it's not like the quartz crisis at all. With the quartz crisis, one could decide which type of watch to wear, but they essentially did the same thing, more or less, so mechanicals simply moved up market.

With the Apple Watch, which is very much still a "watch," you have a bevy of health and other features that are competing for wrist real estate, which is why you see posts like this from people who want stay interested in a somewhat esoteric hobby while simultaneously taking advantage of smartwatch features. Eventually, the mechanical watch will be the vestigial tail that falls off, just like my grandparents' currently-unused pocket watch succumbed to the wristwatch, the latter of which was seen as quite "feminine" for years prior.

Respectfully I would counter that an Apple Watch is no more a watch than a cell phone is a watch. I mean they both tell time, right? The only difference is that one you wear on your wrist and the other one you don’t and just because you wear it on your wrist doesn’t make it a watch any more than pouring vodka or bourbon into a martini glass makes it a martini. I would also counter that the decline of pocket watches had as much to do with the decline of vest pockets as it did anything else.

[douglasf13]

Originally Posted by Kevin of Larchmont

Respectfully I would counter that an Apple Watch is no more a watch than a cell phone is a watch. I mean they both tell time, right? The only difference is that one you wear on your wrist and the other one you don’t and just because you wear it on your wrist doesn’t make it a watch any more than pouring vodka or bourbon into a martini glass makes it a martini. I would also counter that the decline of pocket watches had as much to do with the decline of vest pockets as it did anything else.

So would you call a G-Shock a "watch?"

I honestly can't believe people around here think mechanical wristwatches around going to be around for a long time. We're already seeing a transition, and the smartwatch is a relatively new concept. My wife has an unused Omega sitting in a drawer, and my grade school son laughs and shrugs when I say he's going to inherit my watches someday.

[Timetracker]

Originally Posted by douglasf13

The writing is on the wall, which is why I laugh a bit at the crazy prices people are paying for some mechanicals right now. While many of us aren't ready to wear smartwatches, myself included, there will be a tipping point where the health features will make them necessary for our lives, and I can see the price dropping right out of mechanicals. Apple is already the largest "watch" seller in the world, despite the product still being relatively immature.

As far as wearing an Apple Watch and Rolex at the same time? No thanks. At that point, it's a bit like pulling your vintage 911 around on a trailer behind your Tesla. If you desire wearing a smartwhatch, I'd just commit to it.

‘Necessary’?…………

[douglasf13]

Originally Posted by Timetracker

‘Necessary’?…………

Sure. Biometrics will continue to advance to the point where most of us won't want to live without the health warnings.

[Timetracker]

Originally Posted by douglasf13

Sure. Biometrics will continue to advance to the point where most of us won't want to live without the health warnings.

‘Won’t want to’ is a far cry from necessary. I think most would agree that life can move forward or screech to a halt with or without biometrics and instant feedback.

I wear my watch to tell the time, and then to enjoy a nicely made timepiece. Others may agree, or disagree. I sure hope I don’t live long enough to where we’re having charging ports implanted:-)

[OrangeSport]

Originally Posted by douglasf13

there will be a tipping point where the health features will make them necessary for our lives,

Why would they ever be "necessary" for most people?

[douglasf13]

Originally Posted by OrangeSport

Why woymukd they ever be "necessary" for most people?

Postponing death, essentially. It’s all about health features over the coming years.