What you need
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The Pebble Time Round was last manufactured in 2015, and yet has a loyal following and afterlife.
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Follow along to dissect your favorite e-paper smartwatch.
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Use a guitar pick and push on the left or right side, above the buttons to separate the case from the glass front.
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There are three small screws that are embedded in the casing, just waiting to pop out. Once you separate the case enough to see inside, look and make sure they don’t come loose.
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The glass face should come off with a little coaxing from a pick.
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Gently separate the white touch panel from the e-paper screen. These fall apart easily but are held together by two cables.
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Use a spudger to detach the small cable from the white touch panel. This cable is for the microphone and vibration motor.
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Use a spudger to detach the second cable. This cable is for the display. The second picture shows it already detached.
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Insert a pick between the e-paper screen and the bezel ring. Slide the pick all the way around the screen, separating the two pieces.
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There is a small amount of tape holding together the two cables that are attached to the epaper screen and the white touch panel. Pull this off with tweezers.
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Gently pull apart the cables. They are only glued together and can be pulled apart easily.
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The glass face
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The bezel ring
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The e-paper screen
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The touch panel
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Use a spudger to disconnect the battery cable from the motherboard.
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Use a small phillips screwdriver (PH000) to remove the screws.
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The motherboard can now be lifted out of the case.
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Use tweezers to pull the metal bracket that holds the microphone and vibration motor cable to the rear case. It should slide up and out of the case.
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The vibration motor is glued to the case, use a spudger to pry it out
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The rest of the cable assembly is glued to the case, but not as strongly. Once the vibration motor glue has been separated from the case, the rest of the cable assembly can be gently pulled out, too.
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All that is left is the battery, and it is also glued to the case.
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Slide a thin tool under the contacts at the top of the battery. Now carefully slide a plastic pick under the battery and separate it from the case.
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The front glass, made of 2.5d gorilla glass.
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The bezel ring. It comes in two colors (white and black) and three styles (numbers, plain, plain with ribs)
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The e-paper screen, which has the ability to show 64 colors.
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The touch panel
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The vibration motor and mic cable assembly
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The 58-mAh battery that somehow provides over 24 hours of use on a single 15 minute charge.
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The motherboard, with a Spansion chip.
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The full case. Congrats!
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