I ’ve been ridiculed . I ’ve been brush aside . I ’ve been chevvy for my dearest of spotter . But today is a enumeration . All of my education , my attempt , my sempiternal captivation with horology is paying off . Why ?
Because Apple did something wrong .
TheHermes compendium of Apple Watchbands includes cite of a bent of leather mannikin with fancy buckle . But , under these buckle , is a mechanism well know to the watch world . It ’s a kind of clasp that opens – unfolds – when you touch both sides of the dance orchestra .
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It ’s call a déployant clasp from the French déployer . Déployer means “ to spread ” or “ to open , ” which is exactly what this grip does . It is link up to the give-and-take “ deployment ” but it is not the same thing . I thank my friend Nicholas Deleon , who fall in love with watches because of me , for finding this steep mistake .
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seem , if we were talking about some rubes over in Mountain View who are releasing some generic refuse watch band , then by all mean call it a “ deployment ” band . If you ’re Sam down at Zale ’s in the mall and you take heed the word once ? Deployment all the way . But if you ’re betray Hermes - branded picket bands to a discerning interview then you dun sin , Apple .
WTAF SERIOUSLY?Screenshot: Apple
So Tim : you have a few hours to posit this before I call down the intact watch populace on your heads . This is a rookie mistake and if you ’re selling this hunk of cowskin for $ 539 you get the name right .
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