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> It is useless to have smart rings do the primary stuff of what a smart watch does

Not for me. I like wearing a normal watch, and I don't want to wear two watches.

OK as always there are more ways for markets to split than analysis tells at the beginning. Interestingly enough this is probably also a good part of the luxury market.

I have always hated watches until I had a reasonably good one for a year, and lost it because ADHD just does not handle keeping track of things well.

But it seems to me people who refuse smart watches for normal watches probably are not doing so for crappy watches (and if you are for the rest of the post I shall assume you are the outlier). They must be reasonably luxurious brands that are preferred, as such there is a larger amount of the luxury market who might like smart rings (but this also seems off to me, who the hell wants to wear a crappy looking ring, in the luxury market.)

Maybe however the multiple watches look might catch on, like the stand-up routine of Harry Anderson the guy who used to play the judge on Night Court. He was a guy who could wear two or three watches on each hand, and maybe a couple on his ankles. That was style right there.

That's why they make fitness tracker like FitBit Air that looks like brackets, so you aren't wearing two watches.

What appeals to you about a normal watch that a smart watch fails to satisfy?

And what specifically do you mean by normal?

I like to look down at my wrist and see the time down to the second, and my Apple Watch S7 can't deliver on that. Either the screen doesn't light up, or it lights up after a second or so, or it lights up but it's showing me the Smart Stack or an old notification instead of the watch face. And the screen fades quickly and hides the second hand (my girlfriend's S10 shows the second hand when the screen is dimmed, so they've at least fixed that in newer models).

It also needs to be charged daily which is inconvenient, whereas a normal watch lasts for years, and the smart ring lasts several days.

The smart phone integration features don't really work well either. It'll buzz with a notification, I'll look down and there's nothing. 2-3 seconds later the notification appears, but it'll only say who it's from, not the contents, despite my privacy settings being set correctly. I tap it, and a second later the message appears. I may as well have pulled out my phone instead.

By normal, these are the criteria I've decided I want in a watch, after trying out a handful from aliexpress:

- Quartz mechanism - day-date - Arabic numerals - light face - some sort of illumination

So that's all valid but those are pretty much all reasons to not want a smart watch, or it failing to do its basic job. When you talked about not wanting two watches, I thought you meant that even if you had a smart watch you liked, you'd still want a normal watch on top.

I like the data collection features of smart watches.

Same, I got a Withings watch, which is both

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