Apple Watch water resistance: nine months underwater and it works!

It all goes back to last year, when aApple Watch couleur or(24 carats) passed into the hands of Casey Neistat and the chainJerryRigEverything,renowned for its strength tests of iPhones including the SE, ends up sunk in an American lake with a rocky setting emblematic of the region. But unfortunately, after several attempts, it was impossible to recover the object.

Several weeks later, the unlucky ones finally decide to dive again and end up finding the tocante, in particular thanks to clearer water and a waterproof metal detector. It was then enough to try to do itfunction

Some repairs

The story does not end there, since the Apple Watch - which is aSeries 4– was therefore finally able to be restarted by changing several components, starting with the battery. Then it was enough to clean the softwarewatchOSthen add a new 3D Touch overlay, and that's it.

Theconnected watchstill retains some after-effects, since it is now adorned with a whitish outline which runs along the edges of the screen, which gives it aold schooloriginal. A precious metal version like this normally costs several hundred euros and, according to the manufacturer, can withstand up to fifty meters of pressure underwater (Series 5).

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