Graphite VS Space Black! Apple Watch Series 6 Stainless Steel COMPARED! By AppleInsider

Welcome everyone to apple insider. It is Andrew here- and I am doing my best to focus on this tiny glossy object you see before me, which is the Apple Watch Series 6, but in graphite now Apple has actually changed. The color of the darker stainless steel Apple Watch instead of being space black, it is now graphite we're going to look at it in a few different lighting conditions with different bands and just see how it has changed. So here it is my series 6 graphite, stainless steel case with the graphite Milanese loop paired with it, we're going to go ahead and quickly, karate chop open our box and check out what lies within. So I wanted to do a really fast, minimal unboxing, just to show a few of the differences between this generation and last generation on the stainless steel versions, which does differ from the basic aluminum version of the Apple Watch. So everything pretty much looks very similar inside just updated packaging.

Behind our getting started guides. We have our Apple Watch charging puck, I'm kind of disappointed here that it is not USB-C. This is still an USB. A charging puck, but if you do go for the stainless steel version of the Apple Watch or the titanium or Hermes, you do get the stainless steel Apple Watch charging puck too, which is a nice to have included in the box. So the stainless steel puck versus the plastic one, and they have changed this, which is just the wrapper that was around the Apple Watch.

It's just cardboard. The entry ones are flimsy paper and these used to be a nice microfiber, and I really appreciated that, and I would hold on to them to protect my watch. I've ever stored it or put it in travel. Anything like that. Now it's cardboard, and it gets dinged up, really easy.

It's actually kind of hard to get the watch out of this. I kind of struggle here even on camera, as I'm trying to get it off of the watch uh and I just don't like it as much. It may be more environmentally friendly. Perhaps that's why apple change, but to me, it just feels cheaper, so just a minor bummer going through the actual packaging in the watch. But who cares about that? Let's look at the watch itself, so here we have them.

My Apple Watch Series on the left with that space, black color and then the new Apple Watch Series 6 on the right in the graphite color. It is a fairly subtle change, depending on how close you're looking and in a lighting condition. So here we are in kind of our studio. Let's get some other lighting conditions as well, because I really want you to be able to see the difference. You can clearly see the difference.

I mean the Apple Watch series.6 is absolutely lighter than the prior gen it borderlines on silver. In some light like when we were uh bright outside bright sunlight, it was borderline uh, getting near kind of a silver look, but it's it. I agree with apple's kind of the label for this as a graphite color, rather than a black or anything like that. Here we are outside for more natural lighting. It's definitely lighter that's.

The biggest thing I can say is no matter where you're looking at this. It is a lighter tone on that Apple Watch. I really like the space black. The space black coating was extremely impervious to scratches and anything like that, and I liked that darker look but if I agree. It is not a traditional timepiece color.

I think graphite is a little more neutral, but they still offer that silver version. So I'm a little torn here on what I think about the new coloring for the Apple Watch now to go along with the graphite, stainless steel Apple Watch. They also introduced a new version of the Milanese loop, the graphite Milanese loop so basically very similar to what we saw in apple's last gen Milanese loop, but now it's been updated with that new graphite color, rather than the black or the space black color that they had before. I think before it was really more of a space black or just a black, but we are currently moving studios and for the life of me, I cannot find my black Milanese loop that I had on my last gen, so we can only show you what it looks like here now here. This is my series 5 space black Apple Watch with the graphite stainless steel loop.

You can see that color difference. You can definitely see that graphite on the space black. There is a perceptible difference when you're looking closely with the graphite stainless steel band on the space black Apple Watch. So that's something to consider. If you're looking at picking up the new band to pair with the old watch, there is going to be a discrepancy in those colors, however small it may be, some people may not care whatsoever.

Some people out there will refuse to buy this because it is not an exact match, and we just want to make sure you guys are aware of that before you're dropping down the hundred or so dollars on that band. So here we go ahead and pair it with the actual graphite Apple Watch Series 6, and it matches perfectly as it should. These two are spot-on. They are absolutely no difference in the tone color hue, anything between the lugs of the band and the watch itself, so they did a great job pairing those together, and I'm glad they thought about those details of updating the van to go along with now. I know what you also may want to see how about that graphite, stainless steel, I'm trying not to change the language of my watch, a graphite, stainless steel, Apple Watch with a black band, because I know a lot of people out.

There have black bands already, and they'll pair those together- and this is what it looks like this is my Clayton and chrome Apple Watch band, one of my favorites, and it just slides on there so easily. It looks great. I mean you do notice a difference you for sure do, because it is a black stainless steel, lug versus the graphite body, but from the front no one's going to tell all that much. You really just notice when you're looking closely, I don't know if manufacturing can start to jump on board and start switching to a graphite color for lugs, maybe apple will be selling graphite lugs to manufacturers, I'm not sure, but it is something to consider when picking up the new Apple Watch. Finally, here is a comparison between the graphite, stainless steel, Apple Watch and the aluminum the space black or just the space gray, aluminum Apple Watch and the graphite Apple Watch differences there between the aluminum that matte finish and the glossy graphite.

So I'd love to know what you guys think. Do you like apple's change in color? Let me know over on Twitter at Andrew underscore OSU and grab your Apple Watch down below you.

Source : AppleInsider