Apple Watch Series 11 not only keeps Jet Black, but makes it closer to being the most luxurious Apple Watch we have.
Apple doubled-down on Jet Black this year, keeping it around for another year and making the screen more scratch resistant:
The cover glass of aluminum models of Apple Watch Series 11 offers 2x more scratch resistance. Made from a unique Ion-X (ion-exchanged strengthened) glass — a custom, proprietary glass that is already the toughest in the industry — the display is now treated with a breakthrough Apple-designed ceramic coating that bonds to the glass at an atomic level through a physical vapor deposition process, significantly hardening the surface. The titanium models will continue to have a sapphire front crystal, the most scratch-resistant and crack-resistant material covering a display.
The Achilles heel of any non-sapphire display just got 2x better scratch resistance, but it’s up to the influencers to test how much more scratch resistant it truly is. Jet Black has objectively become more durable than its original debut with iPhone 7, so the new glass is promising. Ion-X glass already has the upper hand when it came to glare in bright lights, but it would be wonderful to see even less glare with this new ceramic coating.
Influencers, please test the following:
Is the screen actually more scratch resistant than last year?
Compare the Ion-X glass from both Series 10 and Series 11 and let us know if the glare is better, worse, or the same.