On Wednesday Apple introduced the Apple Watch Ultra, a $799 wearable meant for radical partaking successful utmost activities similar climbing mountains, moving ultra-marathons, oregon diving. But arsenic MacRumors points out, breaking its screen, button, sensors, oregon different assorted parts portion doing immoderate of these activities could beryllium precise expensive: repairs for the ticker volition outgo $499 if you don’t person AppleCare Plus (we’ll get to that successful a minute), according to an estimate instrumentality connected Apple’s website. That’s importantly much than the $299 repair for an entry-level Series 8.

Getting the artillery replaced connected an Ultra volition besides outgo much than it would for Apple’s little utmost watches, coming successful astatine $99 alternatively of $79. That does marque immoderate sense; the Ultra apt has a overmuch bigger artillery than the Series 8, fixed that Apple estimates it’ll past doubly arsenic long.

While I bash get that it’s ever amusive to poke amusive astatine Apple’s sometimes out-there pricing — I inactive sometimes person a giggle astatine the $19 polishing cloth — I bash somewhat recognize wherefore the Ultra’s repairs volition outgo truthful much. Apple Watches are wide tiny and glued together, and neither of those factors marque for casual repairs. That much oregon leaves leaves Apple with 2 options erstwhile you nonstop it your breached watch; it tin conscionable recycle it and nonstop you a refurbished one, oregon it tin prosecute folks with superior skills to really repair it. Neither of those options are precisely cheap.

Fair oregon not, the Ultra’s precocious repair terms isn’t unique. Apple estimates you’d person to wage the aforesaid $499 to get a Titanium Series 7 Edition repaired, which tracks fixed that the Ultra is made from the aforesaid material. (A footnote does accidental that shipping is escaped for Apple Watch Editions, wherever you person to wage for it otherwise. Apple didn’t instantly respond to The Verge’s petition for remark connected whether it’d screen shipping for the Ultra too.) Those aren’t adjacent the astir costly repairs though; if you interruption your ceramic Series 5, you could beryllium retired $800 if you privation it fixed without AppleCare Plus.

Speaking of AppleCare, though, that’s truly the solution here. Apple’s extortion program for the Ultra is $100 up beforehand (or $4.99 a month), and that’ll sound repairs down to a overmuch much manageable $79. If you get your Ultra repaired adjacent erstwhile — and let’s look it, if you’re 1 of the “outdoor adventurers” Apple’s marketing the ticker to, you’ll astir apt person to astatine immoderate constituent — you’ll travel retired mode up with AppleCare. Plus, Apple conscionable made it truthful the argumentation covers unlimited repairs alternatively of conscionable 2 a year, which is simply a boon for those who’ll beryllium pushing themselves and their cogwheel to its limits.