While the displays mainly cut into the bezels, the watches are a little larger, even if their overall volume has shrunk due to growing a bit thinner on the wrist. .
No bezel makes the watch look like it's all screen and with a good selection of attractive watch faces making it look and feel expensive.
Using metal from the hood of a scrapped DeLorean DMC-12 in the bezel of each watch, Romain Jerome worked with the company in Texas that bought the DeLorean name.
Thanks to a titanium band, clasp and bezel plating, the watch is a lot lighter than it looks.
It's all very utilitarian — though it does require a lot of swiping or button pressing, given that there's no spinning crown or watch bezel for navigation like you find on Apple and Samsung offerings, respectively.
Samsung product manager David Ng ran us through some of the features and I came away impressed by the new bezel, the unique watch faces, and the general build quality.
Currently, other compositions of metallic glass are used to make golf clubs, electronic casings and watch bezels.
That increased size makes the screen look slightly smaller with larger bezels, but the watch looks and feels more premium, and weighs 62.3g making it 19.8g heavier than the non-metal Time, but lighter than most other smartwatches.
I have a press pass, so come with me up one of the spiral staircases, which, by the way, are as run-of-the-mill here as rose-gold bezels and white watch faces (chocolate-colored was last year).
This trim rotates precisely and with the satisfying metallic click of a dive-watch bezel, indicating that the vent is closed.
