--- title: Gold Apple Watch: Casey Neistat on How to Transform Your Apple Watch description: Just don't show tech or jewelry experts. They're likely to notice something isn't right. canonical: https://time.com/3836008/apple-watch-gold-paint/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-26T23:12:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:42.062Z og:title: Watch This Guy Spray-Paint His Apple Watch to Make It Gold og:description: Casey Neistat's latest video on the latest trend og:url: https://time.com/3836008/apple-watch-gold-paint/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Guy Spray-Paint His Apple Watch to Make It Gold twitter:description: Casey Neistat's latest video on the latest trend twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Guy Spray-Paint His Apple Watch to Make It Gold  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Apr 26, 2015 11:12 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Apr 26, 2015 11:12 PM UTC The gold Apple Watch, like the one Beyoncé was [recently](http://time.com/3829457/beyonce-gold-apple-watch/) seen wearing, probably costs [more than you’re willing to spend](http://time.com/3740390/apple-watch-price-edition/). Casey Neistat, a filmmaker and YouTube star, had the same thought. So instead of buying one that way, he got a little creative. Neistat found some gold spray paint, took the straps off the watch then taped off its face and back. Then, he carefully sprayed on both sides. Afterward, when he took the tape off and put the straps back on, the difference didn’t seem too noticeable from the real thing. But perhaps he shouldn’t show it off to jewelry experts; they’re likely to see something’s not quite right. ### See What's Inside the Apple Watch  The display is carefully removed, revealing the innards of the Apple Watch iFixit  A plastic tool is used to remove the device’s battery. The Apple Watch sports a 3.8 V, 0.78 Wh lithium-ion battery, which has a life of about 18 hours for general use before needing a recharge iFixit  The Taptic Engine is the tiny motor that provides force feedback whenever the watchface is pressed or when the user receives a notification. Here, we see that it is attached to the Apple Watch’s speaker iFixit  The antenna assembly is removed, which likely controls the watch’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionality iFixit  Removing the digital crown bracket is the final step before having access to the Apple Watch’s integrated computer chip, the S1 iFixit  Deep in the Apple Watch’s casing is the S1, the integrated computer chip that gives the device its smarts. It’s extremely difficult to remove iFixit  At the bottom of the watch case lies the plethysmograph that serves as the Apple Watch’s heart rate monitor. The device may also be able to measure a user’s blood oxygen level, but Apple hasn’t promoted this feature, possibly due to FDA regulations iFixit  The separate components of the Apple Watch iFixit ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3836008/apple-watch-gold-paint/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3836008/apple-watch-gold-paint/"},"headline":"Watch This Guy Spray-Paint His Apple Watch to Make It Gold","datePublished":"2015-04-26T23:12:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:42.062Z","description":"Casey Neistat's latest video on the latest trend","url":"https://time.com/3836008/apple-watch-gold-paint/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Gadgets","Technology"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3836008/apple-watch-gold-paint/","name":"Watch This Guy Spray-Paint His Apple Watch to Make It Gold"}}]}] ```