My Search For The Ultimate Apple Watch Band Is Over: This One Nails Form And Function

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• The Nomad Stratos Band is disposable successful a full of six colour combinations.
• It is simply a awesome operation of prestigious looks and sporty comfort.
• It's priced astatine $179, but nan value justifies nan value for me.

Nomad's latest Apple Watch set combines nan durability of titanium pinch nan elasticity of a athletics band. The Nomad Stratos Band is built for nan adventure-ready crowd who wants a prestigious look. It features nan aforesaid titanium arsenic nan much costly Nomad Titanium Band, alongside an added flair of a sporty look pinch FKM inserts.

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I went hands-on pinch nan Nomad Stratos Band connected my Apple Watch Series 11, and wrong a fewer hours of use, these are easy my caller favourite bands for nan Apple wearable.

How Nomad Stratos Band differs from nan rest

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I emotion athletics bands for their comfortable fit, but find myself gravitating backmost to metallic bands for their look. Over nan years, I person tried aggregate different straps, bracelets, and bands for my Apple Watch SE, Series 8, Series 10, and now Series 11. I wasn't actively looking for a caller band, but I didn't cognize I needed nan Nomad Stratos Band until I utilized it.

Nomad's caller Apple Watch set features a operation of people 4 titanium for nan links and FKM rubber betwixt them for added flexibility. The beingness of fluoroelastomer rubber besides gives it an eye-catching, sporty look.

Nomad Stratos Band successful Silver and Volt connected Apple Watch Series 11

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The Nomad Stratos Band for Apple Watch comes successful 2 metallic colour options: Silver and Carbide Titanium (black). On these, you get 3 FKM colors: Black, Volt, and Orange, truthful location are a full of six colour combinations to take from.

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I sewage my hands connected nan Volt successful Silver and Orange connected Carbide Titanium. These metallic colors are somewhat different from Apple Watch's Black and Silver options, but nan quality isn't ever visible.

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The Nomad Stratos Band is simply a delightful operation of elegance and style. 

Ideally, athletics bands are a spot bulky, while metallic bands are excessively dressy for workouts. Nomad paired nan champion of some worlds to make nan Stratos Band -- it has nan lightweight creation and durability of a metallic set alongside nan comfortableness and colors of a athletics band. I emotion this design, and arsenic a bonus, it besides fits maine well. In fact, it is 1 of nan astir comfortable bands I've ever used. 

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Depending connected your wrist size, you will request to set nan number of links for a snug fit. Nomad bundles a nexus removal kit, which is easy to use. However, I urge watching this official video to amended understand nan resizing process.

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There's a magnetic clasp that allows nan set to divided into 2 parts, making it easy to complaint nan Apple Watch. In my fewer hours of utilizing nan Carbide Titanium variant, nan clasp has felt unafraid and easy to use. I'll spell connected a tally to trial it further, but truthful far, truthful good.

The caller Nomad metallic band is $179 and disposable for preorder connected nan charismatic website. Although it is designed for nan Apple Watch Ultra, it will activity pinch each Apple Watch Series 1-11 and SE lineups. 

The Stratos Band mightiness not beryllium nan astir affordable Apple Watch strap but it is decidedly nan astir comfortable metallic set I've worn yet. And by acold nan champion operation of prestigious creation and sporty look.