Lee Peterson observes of the iPhone X:

The screen is the least durable of any iPhone I’ve owned but the stainless steel band still looks brand new.

Mine is much the same. Within a couple weeks of owning the iPhone X, it got a five-centimetre long scratch down the screen. I think it may have brushed a comparatively soft zipper causing it, something I would not have expected in any previous iPhone.

Unlike Lee, I do have a ding on the steel band caused by dropping the phone into a pocket already containing a spoon (it’s there more often than you’d ever imagine).