TechRadar thought the iWatch would be announced at the iPhone 6 (can't believe we are now on 11!) event: “Set your patently inferior, non-Apple smartwatch for September 6, the rumored date for the iPhone 6 launch event and quite possibly an Apple iWatch announcement. The Cupertino company has hinted at "new product categories" and in eight months there haven't been any new developments from the hardware division. That's why we're expecting the infamous Apple watch to be its next "one more thing" surprise in either September or October.”

This suited me just fine. I love my Tissot and my Samsung Gear Live, but I just couldn't wait for the iWatch. Obviously neither could Nike as they have pivoted from their own NikeWatch hardware to developing Nike FuelBand SE software for the iWatch and most probably will be announcing the first apps - or the technologist with whom I have a small bet, the tethering to iPhone apps for sports. I believe that we need to be able to run independent apps on the iWatch and it's easy to envisage a separate Store area for them! Look at all those potential apps for iWatch Health. Not to mention password-less second factor authentication. Has to be, I say. 

That will be a Morton's steak and Burrowing Owl N.V. Coruja wine, my technology geek bet loser.

And in fact the watch was announced but not called the iWatch, just the Apple Watch - did I win or lose the bet???

Peter Drucker never said it better...“the leaders who work most effectively, it  seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves  not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They  understand their job to be to make the team function. They
accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This
is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done"