Purely subjective, but way too big. They look ridiculous on anyone smaller than 6’5 275.

ycombinete 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Case in point from the article: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2025/09/introducing-ap...

AlanYx 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's strange that Apple keeps pushing large watches, given how sensitive they are to design trends. Among traditional non-smart watches, things have started to reverse in the last couple years, with 36mm-39mm watches enjoying a resurgence in popularity.

	▲	drdaeman 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		My guess is that they can't make it battery efficient (non-Ultra watches barely survive a day just showing a watchface and whirring at notifications, with widgets severely lagging in updates due to extremely tight budgets: e.g. weather forecast is nearly always out of date for me, I use the widget to open the app and force it to refresh to get anything accurate), so they're pushing towards bulkier packaging under the guise of ruggedness.

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quickthrowman 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Agreed, a 46mm x 40mm watch face is absolutely massive, you’d need 8”+ wrists to have it look right. It would look like a hockey puck if I tried it on right after removing my 36mm automatic, but I have 6.25” wrists.

It’s approaching the size of the (in)famous Diesel ‘Mr Daddy’ watches lol: https://shop.diesel.com/en/man/watches/mr-daddy/

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Insanity 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yup, I would be in the market for an Ultra if it wasn't so large lol.