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Kamaehuakanaloa I briefly touched on this earlier. In order to pair the watch with your phone you need to give Google Play Services some extra permissions. If you aren't comfortable with trading some privacy for convenience and the ability to have a functional Google Pay implementation then I wouldn't recommend getting one. I am not too concerned because I restrict what the watch can access through GrapheneOS and the respective privacy settings on the Pixel Watch itself can be disabled. Now if you want to get carried away you could experiment with a program like this one: [https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachments/wearos-tools-v4-0-rar.5735771/?hash=8b942d3d9c2e0addf1dfcc703861041b]