Apple Watch SE

The Watch SE keeps up well with its expensive sister and offers many functions, sleep frequency measurement and training recognition. Musically, it gets along with the in-house service Apple Music.

A lot of smartwatch for (relatively) little money. The SE is a "best of" from half a decade of the Apple Watch.

With the update at the end of November, in addition to the eleven smartwatches from the 12/2020 test, we now also present the fresh test results of the two new Apple Watches. The Apple Watch 6 is a comparatively expensive model. The Apple Watch SE is considerably cheaper. Our test shows whether the price difference is justified.

Both Apple Watch models are doing well; no one builds better smart watches than Apple. But there are hardly any significant innovations. The faster charging and the measurement of oxygen saturation are not enough for the Apple Watch 6 to overtake its predecessor, the Series 5, in the overall ranking...

The Apple Watch SE is a successful and interesting alternative to the Apple Watch 6 and for us the more worthwhile of the two affordable models. The Watch 3, which is also still available from Apple, is struggling with functional problems after the upgrade to Watch OS 7. In addition, the watch is three years older than the Watch SE - and should therefore no longer be supplied with updates for as long...