Samsung refines the technology of the Galaxy Watch4 Classic with American fashion designer Thom Browne in his characteristic striped style.

Noting functionality is key, but fashionability is also a requirement, Samsung has again partnered with American fashion designer Thom Browne to infuse a bit of panache to the latest Galaxy Watch4 with a limited edition Classic Thom Browne Edition. The same Browne-flourished Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 Thom Browne Editions sold out in 5 minutes, but one can still get their wrists into Galaxy Watch4 Classic Thom Browne Edition.

It’s been a hot minute since Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Flip3 and Galaxy Z Fold3 ? two newly refreshed expressions of the brand’s foldable screen devices that portend smartphones design hasn’t fully stagnated into a same-but-different category like SUVs. While these foldables are subjectively still fairly new technologies, their smartwatch counterparts have had a lot longer to marinate in both form and features, adding iterative developments annually at a steady drip versus the hose blast that often characterizes the competitive Android mobile platform. That is to say, smartwatches began as tethered sidekicks to phones, and they remain so today.
But smartwatches have also been quietly evolving into their own unique platform with utilities distinctive to their small screens and wearable operating system (and increasingly so independent of phones). Samsung’s approach has been ...