Sentence:  Completely absent was any mention of the Apple Watch Edition branding, which Apple used last year to launch a pair of $10,000-and-up Apple Watches that worked the same way as the cheap ones but were made out of actual gold instead of workaday, <WSD>plebeian</WSD> metals. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Common, particularly  vulgar, crude, coarse, uncultured.