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