Tech Desk 
Aug 15, 2025
The rotating bezel on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 Classic has been a fan favourite for a long time, and offers up a fantastic interactive element, allowing you to scroll through menus with a lovely click.
However, a recent video on Reddit has revealed something new: the rotating bezel actually works when it's not even touching the watch at all.
In the video, the owner of a Galaxy Watch 6 Classic holds the bezel ring over a centimetre above the watch display.
Remarkably, the smartwatch responds to the "spins" and responds just like the bezel was sitting in place! It's a small but interesting detail that further demonstrates how the rotation is sensed by the watch.
The powering mechanism is magnetic sensing. The Galaxy Watch Classic is not a purely mechanical system and instead uses a Hall sensor, a tiny component that senses changes in a magnetic field.
The bezel uses small metal balls to create the click you know and love, but the Hall sensor is doing the detecting magnetically and can detect movement because of this design even if the bezel has lifted a bit.
Fans in the comments noted that this system has been in use for several generations, including the Galaxy Watch 8 Classic. The “hover-and-spin” trick should work on these models too.
However, the magnetic setup does have quirks, for example, the watch can sometimes scroll by itself when placed on a magnetic charger.
