Does the Apple Watch Ultra use REAL Sapphire!? - (Plus hidden solar!)

there's been a lot of talk about Sapphire lately specifically around watches this Apple watch Ultra is supposed to be Sapphire this galaxy watch 5 is supposed to be Sapphire and this Garmin Fenix 7 is supposed to have Sapphire along with some solar panels I'm pretty excited about this one sapphire is an extremely premium and very valuable man-made material with a hardness level up near diamonds to make sapphire ingredients are subject to extreme heat for weeks to create a large block called a Bool which is then cut up or cord and sliced to make watch faces or cell phone screens it's a super interesting process as you probably know we see smartphone screen scratching at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level seven but Sapphire Sapphire scratches at a level 8 or 9. it's exponentially harder than glass on the scale of hardness we've seen Sapphire used quite a bit with the TSO watches that we've tested in the past as well as on the displays of kyocera's lineup of ultra rugged smartphones Apple however ever since the iPhone 5 has claimed that they're using Sapphire and while it is technically true it's a subpar grade of sapphire that still gets marked up at a level 6. Apple even used their impure Sapphire on the 1300 Apple Watch series 3 so I have some major doubts about the quality of sapphire here on the Apple watch Ultra which is kind of embarrassing if other companies can get their hands on the real stuff apple as one of the most valuable companies in the world should be able to as well so today we're going to see how well that Sapphire on the Apple watch Ultra holds up and compare it to Samsung Sapphire and Garmin Sapphire and hopefully fingers crossed everyone's Sapphire is legit and speaking of protection huge thanks to Rhino Shield for sponsoring this video Rhino Shield is known for creating durable and customizable phone cases and accessories you can bling out a personalized one-of-a-kind case of your own or pick from a plethora of other Unique Designs from NASA the NBA PewDiePie or you know you can just keep it simple with some solid color magsafe friendly cases which all come with lifetime warranties personally I'm a big fan of the 100 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they're real or not diamonds and Sapphire are five times more thermally conductive than copper can you imagine a sapphire frying pan it might cost a million bucks but it would cook your eggs so fast the thermal conductivity means that the Glass lens of the pixel 7 Pro will not register on our tool but the sapphire camera lens of the iPhone 14 will my wife's cubic zirconium ring won't thermally register but her real diamond will the glass fossil won't register but the extra hard end premium sapphire crystal tiso watch face will of course if we take our massive block of sapphire which has not been cored out yet it also registers as a gemstone maybe we should add a loop and turn this into an earring the second method we'll use to verify gemstone status is with the most scale of hardness plastic was scratched out of two or three glass at a five or six and Sapphire would be a level eight or nine just shy of a level 10 Diamond Sapphire is extremely scratch resistant I've been testing Sapphire for a while now and apple Sapphire has consistently had marks below a level 8 which doesn't really jive with where the crystal is supposed to fall but we'll see where today takes us starting with the cheapest of our three watches the Samsung Galaxy watch 5 at right around three hundred dollars that's a pretty cheap price point for something as premium as Sapphire but we'll see what happens this is the 44 millimeter aluminum bodied watch which obviously has Fitness and sleep tracking and if we flip it over we have the heart rate sensors and a water resistance of five atmospheres which is right around 50 meters and of course some sapphire crystal branding on the back the correct for Sapphire is always going to be sapphire crystal since the only attribute Sapphire shares with glass is that they are both clear the ingredients atomic structure and thermal conductivity are all very different and lucky for Samsung the Galaxy watch 5 indeed is sapphire it doesn't ping quite as high as the tiso but still registers we'll head over to the scratch test to validate our findings since two tests are always better than one we can see that the level 5 does not leave a mark however with level 6 I can feel and hear the tip of the pick start to catch on the surface of the sapphire this could be an impurity thing or it could also be the Polish or texture of the watch face that's catching the most skill of hardness is a qualitative scale that ranks minerals on hardness and not necessarily used to generate precise comparisons between the different minerals on the same level so while I do feel the pick catching I don't visibly see any damage to the sapphire I can also feel the level 7 pick catch but we don't see any real damage into level 8. nice work Samsung the Galaxy watch 5 is using Sapphire let's move over to the most expensive watch on the table and the one I'm looking forward to the most the Garmin Fenix 7 Sapphire solar which currently sits at around 900 dollars now online this is advertised as having titanium but it's far too light in person to be made entirely for metal the only titanium here is on the blue cap around the watch face everything white is made from plastic which is fine just different than I was anticipating it's a very lightweight watch the display is also very different from the Samsung instead of an AMOLED screen the Garmin is using a transflective memory and pixel display which is like a one bit per pixel LCD with basically a zero refresh rate it's what allows us to get 22 days worth of battery life with the solar panels in the display instead of just 50 hours like we see on the Samsung but that extra long battery life comes with an astronomical sacrifice in brightness on the back it has more Titanium with a water resistance rating of 100 meters twice as much as the Samsung but you know if I ever find myself 100 meters underwater something's really wrong good to know that my watch will still work though also on the back we have the power Sapphire branding which of course is the reason we're here pulling out the diamond tester tool remember the lights are not an indicator of Purity just thermal conductivity but the readings of the Garmin are off the charts when compared to the Samsung watch working our way up through the secondary verification most scale of hardness picks six and seven both feel and sound smoother on Garmin Sapphire and then level 8 is again where we start seeing major damage to the crystal the Garmin Fenix 7 is using real sapphire thumbs up for that came outside to check the solar intensity on the watch and if we go right here we can see that it is indeed finding the Sun and charging the batteries and it keeps track of the solar illumination throughout the day which is pretty interesting now for the Apple watch this guy is a tad cheaper than the Garmin sitting at around 800 a major downside to the Apple watch is that it requires an iPhone to set up which definitely limits who can use it this is unfortunate since the Apple watch Ultra is probably the most feature-rich wearable on the planet and probably the best piece of Hardware that Apple has ever made but I shouldn't have to downgrade my cell phone to upgrade my watch it's a shame it's locked into their ecosystem the Apple watch Ultra is heavy and solid out of the box having a full titanium body luckily my iPhone 14 still functions enough after the durability test to get the ultra up and running if this wasn't locked to an iPhone I would probably totally be rocking it it does have a retina LCD display which brings our battery life to 36 hours instead of 22 days like the Garmin watch but we do get all that brightness back which is pretty nice on the back of the watch we get all the heart rate sensor stuff as well as another 100 meter depth rating and some more sapphire crystal branding which is what we're here to check on the improved watch band looks very secure one time my buddy Dan was cliff jumping into a lake and lost his Apple watch for nine months underwater we eventually found it and I fixed it you should definitely check out that video if you haven't already but yeah this new watch band is definitely more secure than the previous versions it's also real sapphire three for three of course we can double check with our most scale of hardness level 5 slide smoothly over the surface but again similar to the Galaxy watch the level 6 Pick starts gripping which you can audibly hear are some markings where the pick was moving on the surface and you can again hear the grip of the level 7 pick and these markings are a tad more visible and of course our level 8 pick is where the real damage begins so it does look like apple is still using the same Sapphire that they've always been using Samsung might have the same supplier or it could be a polishing issue but out of the three the Garmin Sapphire feels to me most like the tiso and like it'll hold up the best either way though it's incredibly cool to see all three watches using such a premium material a synthesized man-made technological Marvel making its way onto the technology we use every day the average person of course wouldn't be able to visually tell the difference between glass and Sapphire but since you're here watching my videos you're already far superior to the average person and we've now scientifically confirmed Sapphire's existence on each watch make sure your above average self hits that subscribe button if you haven't already coming out with me on Instagram I'd say Twitter as well but that's like offering a free seat on the Hindenburg and by free I meant eight dollars don't forget about their massive discounts from Rhino Shield using the link in the description and thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around

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Keywords: Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch, Apple, iPhone, New Apple Watch, Samsung Watch 5, Garmin Fenix 7, Sapphire, Sapphire solar, sapphire crystal, power sapphire, smart watch, wearable, technology, durability test, jerryrig, apple watch ultra, apple watch ultra review, apple watch series 8

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Length: 11min 39sec (699 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 25 2022