Former Apple Engineer Reacts to Apple Watch Series 7 Teardown

In this video, Taylor sits down with ex-product designer Tobias from Instrumental to walk him through our Apple Watch Series 7 teardown, get some insider knowledge on the new design, and try to figure out what caused the delays bringing it to market.

You can learn more about Instrumental here!

And read their whitepaper on product design and manufacturing delays here!

Find a blog version of this teardown here:

00:00 Introduction
01:33 Apple Watch Series 7 X-Rays
01:54 New Apple Watch Opening Procedure
02:57 What's Changed in the Apple Watch Series 7's Larger Display
04:51 How Design Teams Overcome Delays and Obstacles
05:54 Apple Watch Series 7 Disassembly Continued
06:20 A Closer Look at the Series 7 Display
07:15 Removing the Series 7 Battery
08:17 Removing the Taptic Engine and Speakers
08:29 New Ingress Protection Measures
09:19 S7 Package Removal
09:25 The Apple Watch Series 7 Has No Diagnostic Port
10:32 Sensor Array Removal and Analysis
12:19 Disassembly Wrap Up
13:39 Repairability Score

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[vxntablack]

“Tobias, why don’t you give us a quick 30 second intro”

Tobias: *gives an intro that was actually 30 seconds, not a second more or less*

Amaze

[_stealth_y]

The way he’s speaking shows he worked at apple, pretty fun

[progenitor_amborella]

Hearing an engineer’s perspective talk how he did was really cool to see, especially from a company that does very interesting engineering, yet remains highly secretive.

[RAMusicRU]

Looks like Tobias is TRAINED to talk and look good!
He's talking like he's not in a video but has a personal working conversations, having constant eye-contact, avoiding straight answers etc.
Like a true Apple professional. And lefts us wondering if he behaves like that in real life, because it's a little...robotic..?)))

[sriraghavt]

Tobias input explaining engineering decisions have refreshing, it's like bringing order to the chaos

[BillBrandon]

55 years ago I was a mechanical engineering student at the University of Texas in Austin (metallurgy was my interest). But I did not do well in the advanced math and physics, so I changed majors to keep the Navy footing the bill. Notwithstanding, I love this video. You can take me out of engineering but you can't take the engineering and the love of design out of me. So now my hobby is raspberry pi and Arduino. Cheap and fun, and nobody gets hurt.

[mal]

There's a lot of eye contact in this video

[metallurgico]

This guy looks like 20 and 60 y.o. at the same time

[shem]

Why use tools to open the watch when Tobias arms can do the job faster?

[ChristopherEjsmont]

I enjoyed looking at Tobias’s muscular arms

[Simon-zqcw]

Does anybody know Tobias‘ social media accounts? For research purposes.

[tipoomaster]

The first year we saw that metal pouch battery, I was hoping it was a test before it scaled up to other products, as it increases how dense it can be (thinner padding). Was never so though, so far.

[milkhorse]

"Heat and suction are really the two components." Uhhh... are we still doing phrasing?

[ovrkill]

Legend says Tobias' arms was the cause of the delay.

[tneprescintr]

They fit together nicely... and the watch components are not bad either.

[loui]

I liked how even tho he hasn’t been with apple for a number of years, starts to explain and design a machine to properly detach the display.

[alvintoro]

All I noticed was the nod to Air Power on Tobias’ shirt Instrumental logo. Well played good sir.

[henrahmagix]

All these comments on Tobias' arms, and I'm like what about Taylor's HAIR 😍

[EmeraldStar]

Find someone who looks at you the way Tobias looks at Taylor

[drewsdawho]

Tobias could do a solid H. Jon Benjamin impression (Bob's Burgers, Archer)