article_snippet.sent: The Apple Watch includes a host of personal trackers, including a heart rate monitor, and is being billed as a personal doctor that will help users to lose weight and improve users health.
article_snippet.sent: However, Apple also wants Apple to be seen as style statement and fashion accessory, with customers able to choose from any of 38 variants depending on the case and watch strap.
article_snippet.sent: The launch of the watch into stores is being handled by Apple retail chief, Angela Ahrendts, who is very familiar with the world of designer labels.
article_snippet.sent: Apple chief executive Tim Cook pictured giving a presentation on the Apple Watch in San Francisco last month .
article_snippet.sent: Pocket-lint.com, said: 'I think the Watch will follow the same lines of success as the iPad did five years ago.
article_snippet.sent: Will Findlater, editor-in-chief of gadget magazine Stuff, said: 'In many ways the Watch is the ultimate gadget.
article_snippet.sent: The functionality that could end up most compelling is messaging - the ability to send scrawled drawings, emoticons and even your heart beat direct to another the Watch owner feels personal in a way no other message platform does.'
article_snippet.sent: That means the second or third-generation Apple Watch is probably the wiser buy.
article_snippet.sent: Industry commentators believe the Watch will follow the same lines of success as the iPad (pictured) did five years ago .