Ceramic Apple Watch Rumored to Return With Series 12

Apple plans to resurrect its ceramic Apple Watch casing with this year's Series 12 model, according to the leaker and prototype collector known arsenic "Kosutami."


In a new post connected X, Kosutami said that the casing volition instrumentality with the Series 12. Apple archetypal introduced a ceramic Apple Watch Edition with the Series 2 successful September 2016, replacing the archetypal golden Edition exemplary and bringing the line's terms down from thousands of dollars to a comparatively humble $1,249.

The achromatic ceramic finish, made from a compressed zirconia and alumina pulverization polished with a diamond slurry, was marketed arsenic being 4 times arsenic hard arsenic stainless steel. Apple expanded the worldly a twelvemonth aboriginal with a grey ceramic enactment alongside the Series 3, but the Edition enactment disappeared wholly for the Series 4 successful 2018, with Apple dropping ceramic and offering nary high-end lawsuit enactment astatine each that year.

The achromatic ceramic decorativeness returned for the Series 5 successful 2019 alongside an all-new titanium option, earlier Apple discontinued it for good erstwhile the Series 6 launched successful 2020. The worldly has been absent from the Apple Watch lineup for six years since. It has since go 1 of the much sought aft finishes among collectors connected the resale market.

Earlier this month, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that the ceramic lawsuit enactment is expected to instrumentality either this twelvemonth oregon successful 2027. Kosutami's latest station suggests that the diagnostic volition so get this year.

The Apple Watch Series 12 is expected to diagnostic a caller spot for improved performance, alongside a enactment of different tiny upgrades. The instrumentality is expected to beryllium introduced alongside the Apple Watch Ultra 4, iPhone 18 Pro, ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max, and archetypal foldable iPhone adjacent month.
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