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Everything I need from a functional watch I have in my G-Shock. It's also accurate to a silly degree, solar powered, chrono, world-time, alarm, and the face is 100% analogue (no LCD on this).
Everything I need from an aesthetic watch I have in my Sinn. It's beautiful, looks understated and refined with suits and in high class settings. It looks great and tells the time pretty well (and as with all automatics has a little drift on time over time... so you ignore it being out by 10-30 seconds here and there).
All of the smart watches, for me, solve a problem I do not have. Reaching into a pocket to pull my phone out, this isn't a critical problem I need solving.
If I want anything from technology, it's not a watch. It's probably more a Star Trek badge, the Culture terminal. It's a lapel badge, brooch or pendant that can be tapped (doesn't passively listen - saves battery), wakes up and listens for a voice command. It then issues the command to something else (tablet, phablet, phone, etc) which deals with figuring out the request, generates the response (if needed) and then speaks it back to me.
Whatever it is I want from technology, it doesn't have a "face", there is no screen to it.
Smart watches can frankly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
They're all DOA, as they solve a problem that doesn't exist, and do not solve a need that does exist.