I broadly agree; the price didn't really bother me much (it's not hard to spend much much more than that on a watch), but one thing I never really forgave my Apple Watch for was the fact that I really needed to charge it every day. A Casio (or Timex) watch battery will last for years, upwards of a decade sometimes, they keep time perfectly fine, and are pretty cheap so it's not a huge deal if they are broken.

I had Pebbles forever until they stopped making them. The eink display was so great for battery life and it was highly functional compared to other wearables at the time. I was even coding apps for it because they made the ecosystem so developer friendly. Rip Pebble