ScanWatch 2

It's apples and oranges. I've had the Apple Watch for close to 8 years before switching to the ScanWatch 2 : yeah, there is more features on the Apple Watch but it's mostly for things I don't use (music, calls, texting, Siri). I burnedout of all this and just chose a watch that would still quantify things for me without the constant pings. And, of course, the battery life is night and day but you don't need me saying it. I don't run to the charger anymore, I don't dread long exercices because the watch wouldn't finish them. The only thing I miss a bit is the GPS : You have to have your phone awake for the location to register, you can't go run without it. Which, I wouldn't do, but I know some people like that.

Withings Scanwatch 2. It isn't perfect but for your situation it might be the perfect fit.

I have one and it works fine and is a great looking watch.

I have both. And I’d say, if you have an iPhone absolutely nothing compares to the Apple Watch with apple health for features. But you’ll have to charge it every day. On the flip side the scanwatch looks more ‘grown up’ and like a nice quality watch. And the battery lasts much longer, probably 2 weeks min for me. (With notifications and stuff) Both will record what you need. but I think if you go for an Apple Watch you would appreciate all the extra functions you get if you use it with an iPhone, like Apple Pay, Apple Watch music, make calls, all the additional apps and customisable watch faces etc. Hope that’s helpful

Yeah that’s why I got one too, to also have a watch that had actual hands! Plus I recently had heart surgery so I still wanted something with hr monitoring etc! I think the scanwatch is a great watch and it’s nice to have something more formal looking for work!

The scanwatch is a great option if that’s what you’re looking for!

I must say even though I like my Apple Watch I really am also very fond of my scanwatch! They’re great watches

I find my scanwatch report hr and exercise pretty much in line with my Apple Watch tbh no noticeable differences when I switch them up. I always get a comment about my scanwatch people saying it looks nice as well which is nice! I really like both of them lol

I use the Withings Scanwatch 2. It's a hybrid smartwatch, so it looks like an analog watch but has a small screen that scrolls notifications. It has more features than what you listed, but it's sleek, and I get complemented on it a lot. Battery life is usually 3-4 weeks, depending on what functions I use on it. I had the Steel HR from them before, and loved it. I wanted something different when it died (after ~5 years of daily wear, I just couldn't seem to get it to charge anymore) and got a full smartwatch. I didn't like it so I got a different one. Still didn't like it. So I went back to Withings and got the latest model of th Steel HR, the Scanwatch 2. It just feels so much better, is less bulky, looks more professional, and doesn't have all the smartwatch bloat.

I love it. Great battery life. ECG, HR, SPO2, Sleep and workout tracking. It's not perfect and neither is Withings but the company has the right vision and a great ecosystem. They were also recently awarded a €20.7 million grant (about $22.5 million USD) from the French govt to further develop their AI and ecosystem. I actually look forward to seeing where they're going to be at in 10 years. I can recommend it. I actually liked it more than I thought I would.

I'm not an Apple guy and I love my Scanwatch 2 but this strikes me as solid advice.

Step counting is rather conservative (my experience vs Apple Watch), and sleep tracking does not differ between deep sleep and REM. Even with these limitations, I really love it for its battery life and design.

My needs are really modest - track my sleep, track a single daily 30min rowing workout with the screen off, pass my pretty infrequent iMessage/Phone notifications to me reliably, and for my watch to not look like it's been through a war zone after only three months of use. I'm short, and the perfect height to bang my watch on everything - table edges, doorknobs, door frames, etc. I had an AW5, then an SE2, but replaced those with Withings Scanwatch 1 and 2 so that I could get sapphire glass for durability and 20+ day battery life. They initially did what I wanted them to do at a decent price and looked good doing it, but iPhone notifications have been intermittent at best, and outright broken for months at a time after every iOS update. I've given up resetting the watch to get them to work for a week or two, only to have them vanish again. So ... a) With the better battery life on the AW11, is it feasible to ramp back AOD, refresh rates, turf apps, lower brightness, etc. and possibly get to a 48hr battery life envelope? About 90% of what the AW offers, I don't want or need, so can I prune it enough? b) How is the new glass? Durable enough for daily use for someone who bangs it inadvertently a few times a week, or do I really need to pony up for the twice as expensive titanium version to get the sapphire glass to get a 3-4 year service life without it looking like trash?

With sleep monitoring and ramped down notifications, both my v5 and my SE2 had to be charged every day if I wanted to ensure I monitored my sleep through the night, so I had to get into a routine where it charged while I was eating supper to be ready for bedtime. With 18hr nominal on most models except the Ultra, anyone with any reasonable level of monitoring or notification levels is probably going to have to charge every day. That's fine if that's what someone wants. The price of that beautiful screen and all those features is power draw, and you can only mitigate that to an extent. If you want those features, this is the price you pay, right? But ... I only measure two things - one daily workout and my sleep. I did the gamut trying other options, from Google to Samsung to Garmin to a couple of Chinese models, and settled on Withings with their Scanwatch 2. The true smart watches (Google and Samsung) lasted me another day, which was welcome. The Garmins and Chinese watches got into 10-14 days, while the Scanwatch 2 gets me 22-24 days reliably on a charge.

I don't think I'm all that unique. There's a lot of people in here complaining about battery life. But I'll give you another example - sapphire glass. I bang my watch up a ton because I'm the perfect height to clip table edges, desk edges, corners on cabinets, door knobs and handles, etc. My AW5 and my AW SE2 had aluminum bodies and 'scratch resistant' glass, so by six months, the entire leading edge of the watch face was scratched to hell. My SE2 lasted about an hour and a half on the first day of ownership before it got a scratch right across the heart of the watch face. $399 and $329 respectively, and within a few months they were watches I was embarrassed to wear. I can fix that with Apple ... for $799 with the titanium model, where they finally add sapphire glass to it. Yikes. My Scanwatch 2 has a stainless steel body, sapphire glass, tracks my sleep, tracks my workouts, sends me my notifications from the 2-3 apps I care about getting notifications from, looks like a dress watch and is significantly more classy looking than an Apple Watch (IMO), for $350. Sure, there's a laundry list of features you have on your AW that I don't have on my SW2, but those only matter if I'm actually going to use them, and thus 'miss out on them' by buying the competitor. I don't use them, never will, and so I don't miss them at all ... just like I don't miss charging my damn watch every day, either! You realize I'll charge my battery 18 times this year, and you'll charge yours 180, right? I wonder what a literal order of magnitude more charging cycles does to the overall battery health of a lithium battery?

Sounds like you've been conditioned to accept every day charging as normal. My Garmin Venu 3 got me about 10 days on a charge. My Withings Scanwatch 1 got me about 16-17 days on a charge. My Scanwatch 2 gets me about 22-24 days on a charge. The new Pebble Round 2 I'm considering is going to get about that same value. My AW5 and AW SE2 got 18 hrs nominal. With better settings, lowering the brightness of the screen, choosing the right watch face, managing my notifications and background data access ... I could get into a second day. The cost of all those constantly on monitoring features and that beautiful screen is battery draw.