New reports have claimed that Gold variant of Apple Watch, which is to go on sale in early 2015, could cost as much as $1,200 or more.
According to a report on TechCruch, which cites jewellers, the 18-karat Apple Watch Edition versions price would be in the region of $1,200 a piece. Apple hasn’t revealed whether it will be simply gold plating its Apple Watch or will make them using gold alloy and these estimates are based on assumption that Apple will dole out a solid gold watch.
Jewellers however say that they would like to see the watch made in solid gold or an alloy of gold. Chad Rickicki, an expert on watch said that to make a watch in solid gold it would cost Apple around $600 a piece; that without internal components.
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Apple’s watches will be in three models – “Apple Watch Sport” considered to be in the entry level, “Apple Watch Edition,” in gold and “Apple Watch” made in stainless steel. The upper-end models will have sapphire glass screens it is learnt.
The watches are proposed to sold with six different straps – elastomer-based sport band, leather loop with embedded magnets, classic leather buckle type, leather band, stainless steel and stainless steel mesh with magnetic closure, say reports.
