There’s one point I haven’t seen raised in all the hoopla about sales...
They may have “sold” more than a million, but all of those people bought it sight-unseen, and all of them have a reasonable time frame in which to decide whether they actually want to keep the watch or not.
I’m guessing that a significant percentage (50%?) will decide they don’t really need to blow $350-$800 on this gadget.
If you’re thinking of getting one, you might want to hang on for a month or two. There might be a load of them available for a discounted price on the “refurbished” page of apple.com.
Buyers will be unloading them on ebay soon. Selling them as used on ebay, garage sales and flea markets. When it comes to this fatuous fashion accessory, there is no there, there. So if you must have an Apple watch, check your local Craigs list in a few months
Refurbished units usually are sold a generation back ... that is, the prior version. Now those are good deals, in that Apple really gives you a new unit (they rebuild it and replace cases) and you get a full new product warranty, and you can also get an Apple Care extension on it ... and then you get (probably, on the Apple Watch) maybe $50 off new price. That would be a pretty good deal for some, who may want it.
However, I would rather get a newer and updated version of the Apple Watch, if I had that choice in front of me. The $50 would be better spent on NEW CAPABILITIES on the next version!
Make that 2.3 million world-wide in 10 minutes. . . and millions more in the 13 days since. And you are probably right. There will be some available on the Refurb page. No doubt. However, I doubt you'll find that many.
The purchasers had lots of time to decide and were gnashing at the bit to buy.