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
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today to find out if Apple's Samsung and
Garmin are using real sapphire we have a
few tools the first of which is our
Diamond selector tool which tests the
thermal conductivity of gemstones to see
if 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
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