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]

[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.

[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….

[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.

[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.

[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?

[doboy007]

Originally Posted by Potawatomi

This is what has become of TRF.

[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.

[thesharkfactor]

Only the man on the moon would do that.

[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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[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.

[Beto737]

Originally Posted by bob99

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

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

This should be a sin. I’m throwing holy water at you as I’m typing this..

[Cryten]

I never understood these fitness trackers. It seems to me that most people wearing them aren't into fitness but rather use them to count steps so they can justify another piece of chocolate cake.

When doing exercise or some other activity you want to track, then wear the fitness watch. When you're not, wear a normal watch.

If you think you're getting exercise going to the beer fridge for another bottle, then I'm afraid your fitness tracker is lying to you.

[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.

[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.

[Roddypeepa]

Aah yes the answer to the question nobody was asking. Very good.


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[amphr1]

You need an Oura ring!

Also "you're dead to me" say Kevin O'leary, if you wear an apple watch.

[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by Cryten

I never understood these fitness trackers. It seems to me that most people wearing them aren't into fitness but rather use them to count steps so they can justify another piece of chocolate cake.

When doing exercise or some other activity you want to track, then wear the fitness watch. When you're not, wear a normal watch.

If you think you're getting exercise going to the beer fridge for another bottle, then I'm afraid your fitness tracker is lying to you.

Darn it!



I kind of get what the OP is asking, but until they can put all the functions of an Apple Watch in to a single (undetectable) link, I’m wearing my Rolex and no Apple product

[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''

[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.

[Likestheshiny]

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.

All true as long as the wrist continues to be the preferred choice to convey information from your pocket computer (phone). How long do you think that will last? It strikes me as pretty unlikely that teeny-tiny little screens on our wrists will be the preferred medium for very long. I imagine smartwatches are just a temporary stop on the way to a better and more user-friendly mixed-reality approach. There's a reason everyone is also working on smartglasses, and even contact lenses. Currently those options are terrible -- even worse than the teeny little screen on your wrist -- but it won't be that way forever.

*edit* And of course, all of this ignores that we have two wrists, and don't actually have to choose.

[Lash L]

Um, this dude went to the moon and back. In a time when science matters most, he is living proof that science is real. Lol. Buzz is the man. When certain folks don’t believe in science I ask if we landed on the moon. Those that are suspect usually say NO.. Time itself proves that science is real. Hell yeah Buzz.

[Ny325]

No smart watches for me.