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topicnews · September 28, 2024

This is what the first Apple Watch really looked like

This is what the first Apple Watch really looked like

Did you know? The iPhone manufacturer showed us the first Apple Watch 29 years ago, can this be true? What did we miss back then and what did the pretty watch look like in the end? The answer should put a little smile on your face.

In September 2014, Apple presented the first Apple Watch, which could then be purchased from the spring of the following year – until now the official chronicle of the innovative manufacturer. But Apple was already embezzling 20 years before the smartwatch we know, there was an “Apple Watch” on offer. If you didn’t believe it, you should take a look at the following pictures of our find:

Apple Watch from 1995: No joke, but just a promotional gift from the manufacturer

Users were able to get their hands on the first Apple Watch – actually called that, see the advertisement page above – in 1995. They were given as one Gift when purchasing the system update to Mac OS 7.5. That’s right, back then system updates at Apple still cost money if you didn’t have a computer with the current new system at the same time.

And this is what the current Apple Watch will look like in 2024:

Apple introduces the Watch Series 10

Not a real smartwatch, more of a Swatch

Anyone who wanted the “Apple Watch” first bought the update for $135 and then requested the watch. Alternatively, there was a system tool worth just under $100 to choose from. Of course, this “Apple Watch” didn’t offer any smartwatch features, but it did have a trendy 90s design – Not only was the Apple logo colorful, the clock hand and the rest could also compete with a colorful and trendy Swatch from Switzerland.

GIGA author and Mac veteran Sven Kaulfuß gives his two cents: I didn’t remember the clock itself, but I did remember System 7.5. Not a credit to Apple, to be honest. The Mac system was under increasing pressure and was no longer up to date. System 7.5 was not a real improvement, but rather the problem.

While the Mac was considered a guarantee of reliability for years, users like us were now experiencing system crashes with great regularity. Smaller improvements then brought updates such as systems 7.6 or 8. However, Apple only achieved a real and permanent solution to the problem years later with the successful migration to Mac OS X.

Sven Kaulfuss

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