Apple Watch and High Heart rates

The Watch's heart rate sensor is generally receiving positive reviews. However, I haven't seen anyone test it at high heart rates which is a common fall down area of most optical sensors.
Now that the Watch is out there, I was wondering if any of you have worked out at say 150 - 180bpm and how the watch's on board sensor responded?

Hi
Thanks for sharing your experiences everyone, keep them coming. I still have until May/June for my watch so it'd be nice to get a good idea. It's going to arrive after my next pay day so I was trying to gauge if I need a chest HRM. I'm not an athlete or anything but I'm about half way through losing a fair amount of weight so I need a fairly accurate reading.
I've seen the consumer reports report but that wasn't in depth enough for me.
I've seen that one of the things it can have trouble with is interval training but I think that's more of a software issue - if I understand it right, Apple have made it so that the watch takes a note of your heart rate every 5 seconds or so. I also imagine the watch's fitness app will be tweaked now it's out in the real world.
As I said, keep the answers coming!

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