Emerald Sequoia Astronomy Watch Faces

I bought the watch for one purpose and that was to wear the Emerald Sequoia Astronomical watch faces. For the last three years I have been wearing a first generation Apple Watch. The Fossil performs as advertised and I am happy with the purchase. Battery charge is as advertised. For example, today I put the watch on at 4:15 a.m. and at 3:00 p.m. I have 75% of the battery charge left. Yesterday, I put the watch on at 4:30 a.m. and at 10:00 p.m. had 53% of the charge left. That means that I am getting better than 24 hours of use per charge. This has to be qualified, though. The Emerald Sequoia watch faces are gorgeous and these are the only ones I have been wearing. I switch out all 21 faces depending upon what information I want to see for a while. I read all the material at the Emerald Sequoia web site and in the section regarding ambient watch faces they explain that predominantly black watch faces use less battery than white, so most of the time I have a darker face selected, unless I want certain info from another face. Also, I don’t need a high brightness on the face, so I either turn the brightness down to level 2 or use the automatic setting to let the watch self-adjust to ambient lighting. I do have all notifications turned on, but that only gets me email, messages, and notifications from Sky Safari Pro. So, I do use features that conserve battery, but over the entire day I have no problem with the battery. Wifi is on, but I can’t tell whether or not the watch uses it, and the watch is always connected to my iPhone 8 Plus. I suspect those connections use some charge, but apparently not much. One more thing is that with first use I was disappointed with the battery keeping a charge and didn’t think it was as good as the first generation Apple Watch. But I did a complete factory reset the second day, as was suggested on some Wear OS blog that I read, and that seemed to fix any problems. When I go to bed at night the watch goes on the charger and is 100% when I wake up early in the morning.

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