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Before Tim Cook & Co.\u00a0made the Apple Watch official<\/a> last September alongside the iPhone 6, many speculators\u00a0had prematurely and ultimately incorrectly dubbed it the \u201ciWatch\u201d. But what many of them didn\u2019t know is that Apple had already released its iWatch\u2026 in 1999.<\/p>\n

OWC Mike H. uncovered a multicolored gem in a November\/December 1999 issue of Mac Today Magazine that we couldn\u2019t resist sharing now that the Apple Watch is merely weeks away from release. The vertical advertisement in the magazine shows the iWatch line in hues that would look very familiar to iMac<\/a> users of the time.<\/p>\n

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Apple\u2019s $55 iWatch featured an aluminum case, Quartz movement and was water resistant to 3atm<\/a>. Technologies such as the Taptic Engine and Digital Crown<\/a> were still just a few years off\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also interesting that they use \u201cTime travelers\u201d tag in the bottom half of the ad. Maybe\u00a0they knew that this was merely a tease of\u00a0what Apple would have in store in 2015? Probably not, but it\u00a0serves as\u00a0an interesting look at the past nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before Tim Cook & Co.\u00a0made the Apple Watch official last September alongside the iPhone 6, many speculators\u00a0had prematurely and ultimately incorrectly dubbed it the \u201ciWatch\u201d. But what many of them didn\u2019t know is that Apple had already released its iWatch\u2026 in 1999. 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