Twelve South TimePorter review: This is the best way to display your Apple Watch bands on the wall. TimePorter is the easiest way we've found to store your Apple Watch bands with a wall-mounted bar that mimics Apple's minimalist aesthetic. If the TimePorter name sounds familiar, I'd because it isn't the first time Twelve South has used the moniker. It was previously used for a folding box, similar to a large glasses case, that could hold your Apple Watch bands and a spot to mount to your charging puck.
While many loved the original TimePorter, Twelve South discontinued the product, freeing up the name years later for this new incarnation. The original product seemed more fitting, but can't argue with how good this product is. Instead of a travel box, this is a little plastic bar that mounts to your wall where you can slide in your Apple Watch bands, just like order tickets for a line cook. TimePorter isn't complicated to figure out. It's a white plastic bar with silver end caps that attaches to your wall with a pair of Command strips pre-attached to the back.
To install, remove the adhesive strip backing, find a good place, and press the bar against the wall. As with any Command strip, you should give it a full 30 minutes before adding any weight to it. It comes as a solo bar, roughly a foot long, but you can also pair multiple together. Each bar comes with a connector. You remove one of the end caps, slide in the connector, and put two together into one, longer install. Theoretically you could do as many as you want, but you could also do multiple rows too if you have a lot of bands.
The bar is plain white plastic, which does statically attract hair, so you may have to peel them off if you have a lot of pets in your home. Or at least before you mount it. In what seems both a compliment and a slight, TimePorter looks nicer than it feels. Based on the online images, we imagined a bit more weight when we picked it up. In reality, it's super light and even the ends, that look metal, are just chromed plastic caps. This is fine, as it's getting mounted to the wall and shouldn't be heavy, but it did surprise us.
There's something so enjoyable about TimePorter. Over the years, our Apple Watch band has ballooned with new colors, materials, and styles. We used to slip into into a drawer or at most, a countertop valet. But as the saying goes "out of sight, out of mind.". Out of habit, we stuck with only one or two bands. That changed once we hung up the TimePorter. Now our favorite bands were on display and admire. And swapping them out was as easy as just pulling one down.
We could then just put our other band right in its place by pushing upward and the flexible silicone lip lets the bands slip in and be held secure. It even held our heaviest steal band. When pushed edge to edge, we fit seven bands on TimePorter. If we had the smaller watch, we may have been able to fit one more in there. There's only one downside to a wall-mounted option like this. Which is that you must have the wall space to put it.
Unlike various countertop solutions like valets or jewelry boxes that can go on any flat surface, not everyone has an appropriate wall opening. Assuming you have a place for this and you're as giddy about Apple Watch bands as we are, we can't recommend this solution enough. There's nothing else like it and it gives us far more rotation in our daily style by putting it into view. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Andrew O'Hara has spent the last eight years embedded in all aspects of the digital space from leading digital marketing teams to front-end web development and design. He started producing vid...
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