Apple Watch Series 8, GPS + Cellular Connectivity, 45mm Size, Gold Stainless Steel Case with Gold Milanese Loop, Crack Dust Resistant, All Day Battery Life, Gold
Apple
- The stainless steel case is durable and polished to a shiny, mirror-like finish. The Sport Band is made from a durable yet surprisingly soft high-performance fluoroelastomer, with an innovative pin-and-tuck closure.
- With cellular, stay connected even without your iPhone nearby
- Stream or sync your favorite music, podcasts, and audiobooks
- Set up and manage an Apple Watch for each family member, right from your iPhone, with Family Setup
Warranty: 1 Year — effortless warranty claims with UK-wide coverage. Learn more
Key specifications
- Color
- Gold
- Case size
- 45 mm
- Connectivity
- GPS + Cellular
Details
- Shipping Weight
- 0.04 Kg
- Shipping Dimensions
- 3.50 cm x 29.50 cm x 8.01 cm
- Gender
- Unisex
4.510 reviews
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Noah L. Used for: More than a year
Pros
Still doing everything it did on the first day
Cons
Battery health has dropped enough to notice
Comment
Worn every day for well over a year, in the shower, in the sea and to bed most nights, and there is nothing on the case or the glass worth calling a scratch. The gold has not gone patchy at the lugs the way I half expected. The battery is a different story. It used to reach bedtime with a third left and now it is scraping in at 10 per cent on any day with exercise in it, which is the normal way of these things but worth knowing before you spend this much. Everything else is unchanged. Sleep tracking still lines up with how I feel, the sport loop is still the most comfortable strap in the drawer, and a notification has never once arrived late. Four stars, and the missing one is simply age.
Willow W. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
Fall detection is the reason it was bought
Comment
This was bought for my father after a fall in the garden, and the peace of mind is the whole value of it. He wears it, he can be reached on it without carrying a phone about, and the cellular means he can ring from the allotment if he needs to. He has also started closing the rings, which nobody saw coming!
Ella O. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
The strap is comfortable enough to forget overnight
Cons
The always-on screen costs you the evening
Comment
The sport loop is the one to wear overnight. It is soft, there is no clasp digging into your wrist when you sleep on that side, and my skin has not reacted to it the way it once did to a rubber strap. With the display always on it does not quite reach bedtime from a morning charge if there has been a workout in the day, so charging has moved to while I am getting dressed. Not a hardship, though it is something nobody mentions.
Rosie B. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
GPS on the wrist is accurate enough to trust
Comment
Running with it has replaced running with a phone strapped to an arm, which on its own justified the whole thing. The distances come out within 20 metres of the club route markers, and the pace on the screen does not jump about the way the phone app used to, though it takes a moment to settle at the start. Under the canal bridges and through the wooded stretch it holds on, where the phone would lose the plot and add 100 metres of nonsense to the track!
Leo K. Used for: Less than a month
Comment
Wore it to bed on the first night mostly out of curiosity, and the sleep numbers have turned into the thing I check every morning. It gets the time I fell asleep close enough to be useful and it spots the stretch I was awake with the baby, which is more than the ring my sister wears manages. Whether the deep and REM split means anything I could not tell you, but the totals line up with how I feel, and that has been enough to send me to bed earlier!
Isla C. Used for: 1–3 months
Pros
Notifications on the wrist mean the phone stays in the bag
Cons
You will be charging it every night, no getting round it
Comment
The point of it in a meeting is being able to glance at a wrist rather than pull a phone out, which reads very differently across a table. Two taps and it is dismissed and nobody notices. Battery is a nightly job though. It goes on the charger while I shower and that has become the routine, but do not buy this expecting to leave the charger at home for a weekend away.
Alfie B. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
Reading messages without reaching for the phone
Cons
Typing a reply on it is not really possible
Comment
The wrist glance has already changed how often the phone comes out, and for sorting what matters from what does not it is exactly right. What it cannot do is answer anything. Dictation works if you are on your own, the scribble thing is a novelty, and so most messages still end with the phone coming out of the bag anyway
Rosie B. Used for: 1–3 months
Comment
The cellular is only worth it if you will actually leave the phone behind, and it took me a few weeks to build that habit. Now the walk to the shops and the swim are both phone-free and that does feel like the point of the whole exercise. What I would say against it is that a watch buzzing on your wrist in a meeting is nothing like as discreet as it sounds. People see you glance. I have ended up turning almost everything off bar calls and one messaging app, which rather undoes the reason for having it connected in the first place.
Harry R. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
The gold finish has not marked at all
Cons
The phone app wants an account and a nag for everything
Comment
The watch itself is very good and the complaint is entirely about the software wrapped round it. Setting it up meant signing in, agreeing to things, and then being asked twice more to enable something I had already declined. Every app that talks to it wants its own account on top of that. Once past all of it, things settle down. Notifications arrive, the workout side is straightforward, and the fitness rings nag without being unbearable about it. The finish is holding up better than I expected. It catches the edge of a desk all day and there is not a mark on the case yet, which was my main worry at this money. Four stars, and the missing one is the setup.
Ava A. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
Swims and showers with no drama at all
Cons
The speaker sounds waterlogged for an hour afterwards
Comment
It goes in the pool twice a week and has never missed a beat, 64 lengths counted accurately enough that I have stopped counting them myself. The only sign it has been wet is the speaker sounding muffled until it clears itself.
