The Apple Watch is a versatile smartwatch with a great display, rich array of features and strong app selection, and the watchOS 2 update adds lots of enhancements.

Highly customizable design with easy-to-change bands; Native apps with watchOS 2; Beautiful display; Good use of haptics for notifications; directions; Seamless Apple Pay integration; Can make voice calls

Takes time to learn interface; Time isn't always displayed; Can be sluggish to update apps; No GPS

I was supposed to review the Apple Watch . That was the plan, but then, when Engadget had its first chance to test the device, I was on vacation. Specifically, I was in France, where I ran the Paris Marathon, my sixth 26.2-mile race in five years.

To call the Apple Watch polarizing is to do the splenetic depths of online argument around it an injustice. For the past few weeks I've been living in the eye of that storm, the contentious wearable on my wrist. I've worked with it. I've traveled with it. I've exercised with it.

Welcome to our review of the original Apple Watch, which looks at the 2015 model's features, design and build quality, screen quality, interface, battery life, specs and pricing, and where appropriate contrasts it to the Apple Watch Series 1 and

When Guy Sémon, Tag Heuer general director, told Wired back in March that the Apple Watch was not a watch but a connected device for the wrist , he was more or less correct. But this is not a bad thing.

Design; 'haptic' interface; Siri performs well

Lacklustre launch apps; time checking is problematic; expensive

I had a £11,500 Apple Watch Edition strapped to my wrist today. Rose gold. 38mm. Rose gray strap that felt like butter, with a modern buckle also in solid 18-carat gold. It was beautiful.

It's hard to justify purchasing an Apple Watch, considering how redundant a device it really is. In most cases, the Watch costs more than the iPhone is it designed to complement. Imagine paying more for a full-featured remote control than your actual TV.

The Apple Watch has finally arrived and people all over are getting their first deep drinks in Apple's newest product. But one thing they have donned the New Year is setting it up. The Apple Watch is not the simplest thing to set up and neither is the software and hardware interactions.

"I will not have sex with anyone who wears an Apple Watch," read a headline published on Gawker , shortly after wearable's pricing was confirmed. "Nine reasons only a tool would buy the Apple Watch," was another, found on The Guardian .

Fantastic fitness tracker; Comfortable to wear; no irritation from strap; Oozing with potential

Long load times on third party apps; Steep learning curve; Expensive

Interestingly, when people saw us with the watch, they would exclaim, "Oh, you got the watch!" Not the Apple Watch, the iWatch, or some other variation, just "the watch." Then, nine times out of ten, people would follow up with the question, "what do you find useful about it

New; intuitive technologies for interaction; Hardware design with great band options; Notifications and good built-in apps; Apple Pay integration

Sluggish third party apps; Clunky Apple Watch iPhone app; Passbook not as useful as on iPhone; Siri needs improvement; audio feedback; No third party clock faces; Apple Watch