Protection for Apple Watch climbing.

arm band?

https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-South-ActionSleeve-Armband-Apple/dp/B01MY2ENNT/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1495129500&sr=8-2&keywords=actionsleeve+armband+for+apple+watch&linkCode=sl1&tag=werdcom-20&linkId=4d4c77a4cf20c66944c4ad42510e2b26

Definitely pick up a pack of super classy looking wrist sweatbands for ~$4.  That is what my wife and I use to protect our Apple Watches at the gym and its worked great for the last year or so.  We've used them outside a bit as well, although they don't cut it for crack climbing.

I climb all the time with this guy on my Series 3:

Who is having issues with their apple watch when gym climbing? It's not like you're shoving your wrist in a crack. 

Watch on the harness is what I was taught. 

Matt Wells wrote: Watch on the harness is what I was taught. 

This baffles me that people haven’t said this prior to you 

Justin Sanger wrote:

This baffles me that people haven’t said this prior to you 

Prepare to be unbaffled with just one click to the first page! Yay! 

Max H wrote:

Prepare to be unbaffled with just one click to the first page! Yay! 

(Third comment in the thread)

Yeah, true story but I’ll take credit. 

Matt Wells wrote:

Yeah, true story but I’ll take credit. 

Credits all yours in my eyes

I've been using cloth wristbands (in my case, $15/pair from Lululemon—one is in my climbing pack and the other in my gym bag) for a couple of years now without incident. (I still have to take the watch off for crack climbing of course.)

Isaiah aka Zay Foulks wrote:

Fuck it, I'll be that douche.

My phone has been in my pocket on every pitch of every big wall and every sport route and every offwidth, chimney, bushwack, hand crack, bitch slap, you name it. It has never once fellen out of my pocket or even been noticeable.

What does that have to do with using an Apple Watch at a climbing gym?