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Apple Watch spotted on display at Colette ahead of Paris fashion week

Several users on Instagram and Twitter have captured photos of the Apple Watch on display at French retailer Colette just ahead of Paris fashion week, where members of Apple’s design team have been spotted in the past few days. The Colette store, located at 213 rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st Arrondissement of Paris was hidden for most of the day according to an Instagram user who lives across the street.  Colette is a French “brick-and-click” clothing and accessory retailer. The three floor 8,000 square feet (740 m2) concept store contains an exhibition space, bookshop, and a “water bar” serving more than 100 brands of bottled water.

Earlier today the retailer teased a “one day only experience” in collaboration with Apple.

It seems likely that the watch will get its first public preview tomorrow during the event, though whether people will actually be allowed to go hands-on with the device is unknown. The opportunity seems unlikely given that at its official unveiling just a few weeks ago, members of the press were only allowed to see hardware displaying screenshots of static interfaces, not working models.

Update: The Colette website has been updated and confirmed that “Apple Watch windows” will be on display tomorrow only.

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  1. Noy Moshe Kedem-Hadar - 10 years ago

    I hope they hired extra security, because every thief in town is gonna want to steal a smartwatch that isn’t even out yet and could probably resell it for thousands of dollars…

    • Mike Beasley - 10 years ago

      if it’s even a working model… remember that the models shown to the press at the event this month didn’t even work yet. these might just be dummies hanging up in a window with no real software.

  2. Marek Horvath (@fetak13) - 10 years ago

    Honestly this is what I think about Apple Watch, Samsung Gear, Moto 360, (or any other smart watch device). One is better than the other, or all are similar, it really doesn’t matter. Personally they are bad for you. How? Because each device that is sending out a Bluetooth or Wifi signal sends out certain ‘radiation.’ It may be in small amounts, but I constantly see people with laptops on their feet (this is BIG radiation, as are ALL tablets, and even phones).

    If you have a device on the table, it’s not as bad, but having a phone in your pocket isn’t good. It has been scientifically proven that two phones next to each other that are calling managed to fry an egg. Men? Imagine what this can do to your genital area in the long run even if you are not calling (but more and more people call with headphones). Taking the public transport? How many people are calling that are close to you or close to each other?

    If you sleep with a phone next to you, that’s not good in the long run (the ideal is 6 feet (roughly 1.8 meters)) away from you and never put a phone under your pillow (that’s just an invitation to cancer and tumors).

    Back to smartwatches. If you have any smartwatch so close to your skin, it’s destined to have health effects in the long run, and no one really seems to care. I did research once someone warned me, so I’m warning other people. As long as at least one person thinks about this, than this post was worth writing.

    • TechSHIZZLE.com - 10 years ago

      And quit breathing the air, and don’t look at the sun, and don’t drink the water. And quit eating.

      The radiation put out by a phone has got to be MUCH stronger than the Low Power bluetooth signal put out by a watch in that the watch isn’t trying to communicate with cell towers potentially miles away.

      • herb02135go - 10 years ago

        Seriously?
        You equate using a smartphone/watch with the basics of human life?
        Get real. EMF is real. Tumors are on the rise, including near the ear where people use their smartphones.

        But be sure to put your phone near your reproductive organs. We don’t need anymore people like you. It’s not good for the planet.

    • jakexb - 10 years ago

      You should read up on the difference between ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation. They’re not the same. Phone radiation is non-ionizing.

    • robles - 10 years ago

      Don’t feed the trolls! stop replying to this message.

    • Dan (@danmdan) - 10 years ago

      Do read – Lucius Annaeus Seneca -On the Shortness of Life

  3. Colette just tweeted about #AppleWatch