I’ve always been a wannabe watch person. I see ads for luxury analog watches and admire their design and the precision engineering behind them, but my yearning never compelled me to drop several thousand dollars for a timepiece.
The Apple Watch has enough style to partially satisfy that desire in a budget ($400 to $800) I can afford. But aside from choosing different case materials — aluminum, stainless steel and titanium in the current lineup — its design has remained stuck in time. So if you want your Apple Watch to stand out, you do it with the watch band.
That’s created a wild third-party market that includes everything from multiple Apple styles to cheap knockoffs and — if you’re willing to spend big — Hermès bands that I’m sure are fine but mostly notable for being Hermès.
And somewhere in the middle there are bands such as Withit’s Titanium Band for Apple Watch that
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