Official Apple Watch Magnetic Charging Dock Will Drain $79 From Your Wallet On November 20th

by Brandon Hill — Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 10:47 AM EDT

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Apple released its much-hyped Apple Watch in April to much fanfare. At the time, Apple didn’t include a charging dock in the box for the wearable and simply provided a MagSafe charging adapter. With no option from Apple available, third-party manufacturers quickly filled the void with their own contraptions.

After first leaking to the web yesterday, the official Apple Watch Magnetic Charging Dock is now available to purchase from Apple.com. In typical Apple minimalistic fashion, the Magnetic Charging dock is a simple disc shape with a pivoting MagSafe charging pad. This allows an Apple Watch to either lay flat or be posed at a 90-degree angle to display the time in Nightstand Mode — a feature that was added with watchOS 2.

As is the case with most Apple accessories, the Magnetic Charging Dock is not cheap. It’ll cost you $79 and it only comes with a 2-meter Lightning cable. If you need a USB wall adapter to go along with it, that’ll cost you an extra $19.

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You can purchase the device today, and it will begin shipping on Friday. It will also be available in Apple Retail Stores on Friday as well, but it appears that at least one location in Germany has jumped the gun and already has the accessory available for sale. You can check it out in the unboxing video below:

Tags: Apple, (NASDAQ:AAPL), Apple Watch, magnetic charging dock

Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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