Mar 8, 2026AW-0047No outcome yet
Gurman: Apple Watch casings may move to 3D printing
Gurman reported that Apple's manufacturing design team was working on 3D-printing aluminium Watch casings.
Mark Gurman reported that Apple's manufacturing design team was working on ways to 3D-print aluminum, which would bring more efficiency to Apple Watch casing production and, potentially later, iPhone enclosures.
How to read this record
- What was reportedGurman reported that Apple's manufacturing design team was working on 3D-printing aluminium Watch casings.
- Who said it, and whenMark Gurman reported it on Mar 8, 2026 in 9to5Mac.
- What happened, and whenApple Watch Series 12 has not been announced yet, so nothing has happened that could settle this.
- The verdict, and whyNo outcome yetNothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.No answer yet, so there is nothing to explain.
What do these words mean?
- Right
- It turned out the way this report said.
- Partly right
- Some of this was right and some of it was not.
- Wrong
- It did not turn out this way.
- Moving target
- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
- Not comparable
- This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
- No outcome yet
- Nothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.
- Not checked yet
- The company has answered this. We have not finished checking this one.
- Checked
- Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- Mark Gurman
- We read it in
- 9to5Mac
- Product
- Apple Watch Series 12 · reported as “future Apple Watch casings”