A sales assistant shows an Apple Watch Edition collection watch at a luxury watch boutique in Singapore.
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‘Wristwatches generally include a housing having a display with a transparent cover disposed over a display that provides among other things time of day information to a user. As another proof of it, a patent application by Cupertino published today reveals an interesting idea about innovative variations that an Apple Watch can do on a user’s wrist with a magnetically closed Milanese Loop.
Even after the first-generation watch was introduced last April, Apple has continued to introduce a number of new accessories for the watch – including different band colors and a magnetic charging dock.
The band can be particularly useful for devices such as the Apple Watch Sport – the Ion-X glass could perhaps do with an additional protection method. This could potentially mean the Watch could attach itself to other magnetic devices. The strap is also ideal for covering the optical heart rate sensor, which does not almost have the same endurance as other Apple Watch components. Given its utility and usefulness, it will be hard to see Apple passing up the opportunity to introduce a functional and aesthetically-pleasing wristband to the masses.
With that in mind, the patent application describes how the magnetic Apple Watch strap, “can be subjected to even greater forces and damage than when worn by the user”.
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The first configuration would essentially turn the band into the Apple Watch’s own protective casing, coiling around the device and linking together magnetically the same way it would when placed on a wrist. Whatever the intended objective, we at Bidness Etc expect this concept to be well-received in the consumer market.
