Unboxing The Most Exclusive Apple Watch Series 6

Well, it's obviously Apple time of year

It's the new phones, the new products, and holiday season in general

People are looking for, I don't know, gifts. People are looking to upgrade the devices

that they have today. I have a device that I didn't look at

that was, well, I guess it was overlooked by myself, but it's getting looked at now today

because I received a very special version of it. Inside this box is the new Apple Watch, the Series 6

but it's from Aurum Edition, And you may recall that these guys in the past, they've sent me some very luxurious, smell

Versions of iPhones. It is an iPhone 11 Pro. You know, ornate and gold-plated and featuring precious stones

Well, that's what's in this box. So I thought now is the time for me to check out the Apple Watch Series 6

And also prepare for the iPhone 12 because maybe I slipped the SIM card in the iPhone 12 and then I gotta figure out what watch to wear

And I think most people agree if you're on the iPhone at least, then it's gonna be an Apple Watch

So anyway, let's go ahead and first off, appreciate the packaging here with the rosewood on the top

Once you get to a certain price point with luxurious gadgets, you're talking about wood

Alright, there's no cardboard in sight. I don't know, this might be brass, this engraving over here

and you lift it up. And there's got to be a pillow involved

Have you ever purchased a luxury watch before? I haven't either, to be honest with you

That said, it would probably be on a pillow quite like this

So I'm going to remove that. Oh my goodness, look at the clasp. Gold-plated clasp going on

All right, just let me put that down for a second and lift up this portion of the package

You see the smooth, it's the smooth felt. is it felt alcantara i don't know what it is it's soft all right it's soft and then it's uh it's

pretty much that it's your little charge puck thing to go with it in the old days there used

to be many versions of the apple watch charging devices that were out there now it's been simplified

it is this portable little puck, and that's that, unless you opt for Apple's latest, their brand new charger

which is the dual wireless charger, in which case then it has a spot for the Apple Watch

as well as the iPhone 12 or other Qi-compatible wireless charging phone

All right, so this is your little charger right here. I'm gonna pull the pillow out from in here

Now, it's important to note that this is a crazy premium watch

That right there, I didn't even take this part off yet. That right there is a real sapphire

That's a real sapphire. I don't know what the current cost of sapphires are, but they sound expensive

And they probably are. And I'm not talking about a sapphire glass front

I'm talking about a sapphire gem stone right there on the digital crown okay so this is it

look at that that's a statement right there people are gonna know well people are gonna notice that's

not an everyday Apple watch and then we remove the cover and that's what it looks like whoa

so you check out the engraving here you know when I was a youngster I had a pocket knife a brass

pocket knife with very similar engraving around it. This is tough work because everything is so

small. I mean, even on the button, it's got the engraving going on. And we are booting up right now

The back of the device, we can see this is based on the 44 millimeter aluminum and ceramic case

Now, they can base it off of the stainless version, and they come in at different prices

I'll give you a price right now, ladies and gentlemen, and it's gonna scare you

This is the Sapphire Crown Series 6 Gold, 40 millimeter or 44, and in the sport GPS version

which is the one that I have here, we're looking at $2,800

The watch case is plated with yellow 24 karat gold, sapphire stone installed on the watch crown

Deep anthracite black strap. Mine actually got an upgrade. I guess this is the blue version

Top quality embossed crocodile leather. The watch is hand engraved, which makes the fashionable design absolutely unique

Now, as mentioned, you can get it based on the stainless steel version, but that's gonna cost you a little bit more

since the initial cost is a little bit more. So that goes up to $3,200

This is a premium. This is a luxury piece. They have a few different crazy versions on there as expected

Anyway, as a watch, as a smartwatch, I actually haven't used the Apple Watch series in a pretty

long time. I have bounced around. I like to use a variety of products and I spend time on Android

So as mentioned here and as featured here I been trying out a lot of different smartwatch devices The latest being this one which is the new Fitbit Sense

which has a tremendous number of sensors in it. It actually has more sensors than the Apple Watch Series 6

The other device I used previous to that was the previous version of the Polar Vantage

which is a fitness watch, which I like the styling of, because I kind of like a rugged watch

And it had a very accurate heart rate monitor, which I liked for the fitness aspects when I would hop on the bike and things like this

This one took it to another level. It got real crazy. It added some of the Apple Watch features, including ECG, blood oxygen, which I'm tracking

And the sleep tracking on the Fitbit Sense is actually beyond what Apple's doing on the Apple Watch by showing you things like deep sleep and REM sleep

and I mean, it even has a temperature sensor to constantly monitor the temperature of your skin

and potentially your stress levels. So Fitbit is, they're fully going towards

the health tracking aspect. Now, the other one, which I also featured recently

is this, the Apple Watch, which is an Android compatible version of essentially the Apple Watch

And no, it doesn't have all the same sensors, but it does have a similar styling

with an even larger surface area there. So you can go check out this video as well

for another comparison. So as you can see, I've tried out a bunch of different things

and it's probably time to hop back on the Apple train a little bit

and give a test to their latest generation. However, the Apple Watch Series 6

is not all that different than the Series 5. The blood oxygen sensor that's in here

is pretty much the only new thing alongside supposedly improved battery life

and also a faster chip. Now, when it comes to battery life

I would say, look how luxury I am right now, man. You see this guy roll up

I show up to baseball practice with this? That's a hell of a look

For the Jays with the blue as well? Oh no, I gotta show up to the post-game interview

with this on. And here's the thing. A watch has been a style piece for a really long time

More so than a phone. When they started to upgrade these phones and do the luxury models there

It was maybe a little bit more absurd. But a watch has been kind of a personalized or a personal item

In which you would pick one up to sort of represent your style. Because you wear it on the outside of your body

That's one of the drawbacks with these smart watches. I mean certainly over here. What is the identity of this

This has zero personality at all. It's just a little puck that sits on your wrist

And the Apple Watch, without customization, now I know you can get different colors and things like this

it's a pretty basic design, which is good, too, because then you don't get bored of it

But what if you want to, you know, I don't know, have a more, you want to have a night out

Why don't you just want to be flashy for a second? And that's where this comes in

Now, granted, this is like $3,000. I would suggest the cheaper way of doing this

you just pick up some extra wrist straps and you're good to go

And now you have a totally different look. But this with the engraving and whatnot, it really has a luxury look to it

but on a simple form, which is, of course, the Apple Watch

All right, now let me check out the heart rate. The heart rate on top of this hairy wrist right here

Let's see what we get. Let's see how fast the reading comes in

Apple Watch has been one of the most accurate smart watches. It's been tracked online comparative

to your chest straps, which are like the industry norm from guys like these guys, Polar, who make

them. I'd say sitting here right now talking a couple coffees deep, this is probably where I'm at

One of the things is the update frequency, like how often it shows me that increase or decrease

But this is going to be sufficient for a lot of people. And when it comes to the smartwatch characteristics with notifications and things outside of health

that's really where the Apple Watch shines as well. Because the integration with the phone is so far beyond whatever somebody like Fitbit or Polar can do

All right, let's go ahead and just unbox this Polar real quick. Because I haven't checked out their new version, the Vantage V2

They've upgraded the heart rate tracking in here as well. I'll get under the skin of who you are

When you understand your body better, you plan better, train smarter, and recover fully

Because the more you know, the better you can become. Well, I know that gets Kirk fired up

I don't, myself, I'm still gonna need to see a little bit more, but Kirk's already getting going on that

That's a very easy top removal. I'm just gonna put that out there

I've unboxed a few things in the past. All right, so inside the package

this looks like a tremendous chunk of paperwork right here, getting started and I'll never read that, but it's there

Ooh, that's cool. Look, they did like an army green on the wristband

The wristband looks identical to my previous model. This is metallic. It cold to the touch and look at how rugged look at the styling You see I wish there was like a more rugged Apple Watch or Fitbit product as well because I actually been enjoying some of the sleep tracking going on with the Fitbit

It's a little bit more comprehensive. But anyways, yeah, I wish that there was some more robust

styling to go with it. This has a strap, by the way, that locks in. It doesn't move around

this little piece will clip it in at a second point so this is this is a very secure wristband

i used the previous version of the vantage so i'm familiar with it it looks like this wristband

is the same it just happens to be in this like army green the rear of the device look at the

look at this sensor right here this is going to bite through all the hairs on my wrist it's a

substantial many contact points many leds i mean comparatively let's see you see my the puny little

fitbit is just flashing right now just a couple of leds in green and comparatively some of these

fitness products because they have a bigger base to start with you can get some tremendous uh tracking

on there and it kind of locks on like i find that the discrepancy or or or bizarre unexplained jumps

and heart rate. This one is just rock solid for me, at least the previous model. All right, also

inside the package here, we are going to have, this is the worst part actually about this watch

series, is the charge puck. All right, this is the charge puck right here, and it's a USB connector

That's a pretty self-explanatory, but this piece, this piece drive me crazy. It's a weak magnet

and I would say it is the, probably the thing that I dislike the most about this series in

Trust me, I use the Vantage V1 for a long period. You line up this little... Oh

Oh, wait a sec. It's a better... I think they... Did they strengthen the magnets

Nah. Maybe a little bit. They may have improved it a little bit

I think they improved it. This is my technique. So this thing is plugged in, and then I come like this

Oh, they improved it. Okay, maybe I'm less mad. they improved it. I still feel a more satisfying click on the Fitbit. And then of course

if we're talking about the Apple Watch Series 6, it's got... I just broke this watch. I mean

I don't think I actually did. Yes, on the Apple Watch side, pretty self-explanatory

little puck and super easy to hit the right spot. So Apple has totally figured that one out

You can see with this one, since the watch doesn't lay flat, you kind of got to come from

the side so still not my favorite but i don't have the fitbit charger right now to compare either

uh it works and at least they improved the magnet a little bit on this one so this is a circular

display it is nowhere near as bright or vibrant as the fitbit or the apple watch or the oppo watch

for that matter now this is just a setup screen but it almost has like an e-ink brightness to it

The consequence of this, though, is tremendous battery life. Sometimes, again, depending on how often I was using the features

heart rate tracking, things like that, I was looking at many days of battery life on this particular device

And I know it's a huge argument in the smartwatch space because guys like Kirk, I don't get it, Lou

I charge my watch every night. But some of them have cool sleep tracking

When do you track the sleep? because these two, they take about an hour and a half to charge up

When do you do that? Maybe at your desk, and you can still track sleep

but I don't even sit at the same spot for that long. So I hate the fact it's probably the only drawback with the Apple Watch

which, of course, dominates the smartwatch category, is the fact that this is a charge every night device

And I don't know what Apple said officially, but everything you'll find online

anyone who's used these extensively, they're charging it every single night. So there goes your sleep tracker for the most part

I understand there are ways around it. This one is right in between the two

what they were able to do with the new Fitbit Sense. What I noticed with this one

I could get up to five days of battery life on this, using it in a conservation type of way

but definitely at least two total days. And then with the hour and a half charge time

I will usually just pile it up. Maybe when I'm in the shower or something, just pop it on for a little bit and top it up

and that proved to be okay. So the smarter the watch, definitely the nicer the display

the less the battery life. So you have to factor that in for yourself. All right, so what's the story

How does this all break down? So Apple Watch Series 6, if you're on an iPhone

I think it's a pretty easy and obvious choice As a smartwatch, it has the most features hands down

Particularly, I mean, you can configure it with LTE in there. You can use it without a smartphone attached to it

The notification system, the microphone, it will warn you of loud environments

They've just, it's just a very comprehensive wrist computer. And so I think that why it as popular as it is However on the fitness side and certainly on the Android side you have people looking at other devices for other reasons

I think the one major reason to look elsewhere if you're on iOS is just battery life

If you're cool with charging every night, then the Apple Watch is a pretty straightforward choice

You can start to look elsewhere if that's not the case. And then you can also start to look elsewhere if styling is not what you want on the Apple Watch because it's, well, this is not a standard Apple Watch, but this type of styling will cost you

If you want to go more in a sporty direction, you might find yourself looking at something like this, which is pretty squarely focused on fitness and not much else

All right, let's test out some of the sensors here. Oh, also Assistant

assistant google assistant is coming to the fitbit sense it also has amazon alexa to speak to it so

it does have a microphone you're using siri obviously if you're on the apple watch blood o2

all right here's the new sensor in the series six the blood o2 make sure your wrist is not too low

make sure it's not too low on your wrist okay it should be snug it is but comfortable all right

facing up don't move 98 all right i'll take it so you can do this on demand and it can also track it

over time just like the fitbit sense can do i like the fact that you can do it on demand on

the apple watch that's actually a thing you can't do on the fitbit sense it will just tell you your

spo2 from the previous evening and the range whereas i can just do an on the spot check right

here like as if you went to the emergency room at the hospital and you stuck your finger into the

little sensor and you just needed feedback quickly same thing goes for the ecg functionality as well

all right check it out that's interesting so you have to actually install the app it's not on there

by default gives a little description of how it's going to interact with your heart now this is not

a new feature by the way but this does look to be maybe a little more comprehensive than the version

I was using on the Fitbit Sense. It cannot detect a heart attack. It cannot detect blood clots or

stroke. It cannot detect other heart related conditions. It's important to note as well

if you're younger, these things are not as accurate or as useful. Apparently, it's not

recommended for people under the age of 22 or something like that to get accurate feedback for

whatever reason. So just keep that in mind. If you're not feeling well, you should talk to your

doctor. Okay, cool. Are we ready? Cool. ECG app. Okay. Ooh, check, check that. Hold your finger

Oh no, my digital crown has a sapphire on it. This is not going to work. The ECG requires touching of

the crown. I have a sapphire on my crown right now. So I'm gonna go ahead and recommend that

you don't do the sapphire crown version of the customization if you want a very luxurious Apple

watch because you're gonna kill one of the key features unless you absolutely could care less

about doing an ECG or using the ECG feature in which case it's a non-issue. However since

I do want to do an on-air ECG, which would be a first for me, what I'm going to do is boot the

Fitbit Sense back up because it also has that feature and it's implemented a little bit differently

where you touch the two sides or two corners of the device. Oh, by the way, this, if you're

interested, this one also has a touch sensitive button over here. This is with haptic and that's

how you turn the watch on. ECG, put your index finger and thumb on the corner metal, and then it

counts down from 30. And what's interesting is Apple's implementation is one point of contact

whereas the Fitbit Sense asks for two points of contact. Normal sinus rhythm, your heart's rhythm

appears normal. It still says if you're not feeling well, go talk to somebody, learn more

This would also tell me if there was any indication of an abnormal finding

which is the same thing that the Apple Watch would do. I guess you would only ever boot up the ECG app

if you have a pre-existing heart condition that you would want to check up on that

or if you're experiencing some sort of issue and want to take a reading. But anyway, look, there you have it

Smartwatches. It's a cool expanding marketplace. Apple Watch is still number one at the top, and the Series 6 is no different

and this just happens to be a hyper luxurious version of it

which is, believe it or not, the first one that's shown up in studio. So if you have something like $3,000 in your pocket that's burning a hole

you can look towards flexing with the most elaborate version of the current Apple Watch

This one is balling so out of control that you have completely covered up core functionality

in order to show off your sapphire. This is such a weird video

It is