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Apple Watch Teardown Guide: Step-by-Step Tutorial

Duration: 60 min.
Steps: 6 Steps

We’ve made a little look inside the Apple Watch. We show you two important components and find out how difficult future repairs will be. We’ve made a little look inside the Apple Watch. We show you two important components and find out how difficult future repairs will be.

Step 1

– Apple wants to revolutionize the new wearables market with the Apple Watch. The watch is available in two sizes and various versions.Key data about the Apple Watch:

– 38 mm or 42 mm enclosure

– 7000-series aluminum, silver

– Ion-X glass

– Back of enclosure made of composite materials

– Digital Crown

– Retina display with Force Touch

– Heart rate sensor, accelerometer and gyroscope

– Ambient light sensor

– Speaker and microphone

– Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n 2.4 GHz)

– Bluetooth 4.0

– Battery life of up to 18 hours

– Water-resistant

Step 2

– Now we can finally start taking things apart. Since we can’t find any screws on the Apple Watch, it seems pretty clear that the display is glued on.To soften the glue and make it less sticky, we carefully heat the outer edges of the display with a heat gun.Now we need a little suction cup, a pick, and a very thin laboratory spatula. We press gently to lift the display, while inserting the pick between the display and the aluminum frame.

Step 3

– Now we get our first look inside the cable. The touchscreen’s and LCD’s cables are attached to another ribbon cable.There’s also a metal bracket over the two plug connections to make sure vibration or shocks don’t cause the connections to come undone.

Step 4

– Now we come to a component we’re sure to have to replace a lot in the future: the Apple Watch’s 246 mAh battery,which is supposed to offer a battery life of up to 18 hours.This little battery lets you talk on the phone for 3 hours, listen to music for 6.5 hours or have your watch on standby for 72 hours.The battery is only lightly glued in the enclosure, and you can easily remove it with a spudger.The only other thing you have to do is disconnect it from the cable.

Step 5

– The antenna could get damaged when you remove the display if part of the antenna stays on the aluminum frame and the other part sticks to the display. Then the antenna gets torn in half, but you can attach it again with instant glue.

Step 6

– The inside of Apple’s first smartwatch is a surprise. It’s not designed for you to repair it yourself, but you can remove the display and battery pretty easily and – what’s very important – independently of each other. This is good for repairs in general because you can trace most problems back to these parts.But you’ll have your work cut out for you if you want to replace other parts. For one thing, you’ll need very small tri-wing screwdrivers, and for another, the S1, the heart of the Apple Watch, has several soldered connections, making it virtually impossible to remove.

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