I've been waiting patiently for the replacement display module to ship so that I could get working on the watch again. When I ordered the replacement(s) in September, the backorder ship date was November 13th. For those playing along at home, that was Friday of last week. I've put several requests in to Digikey asking why the parts haven't shipped; the impression I get is that the delivery from Flex hasn't come in yet. Hopefully I'll hear something soon. In the meantime, I'm just... waiting.

On the plus side, Sharp's website finally acknowledges the existence of the LS018B7DH02! It's listed as "new" (ignore the fact that I found reference to it in catalogs back to 2018) and still doesn't have a datasheet attached, nor does there seem to be any way to actually get one (I have an email out to my local supplier), but it's a start.

I've given some passing thought to a redesign of the physical layout to use a more available display, but I haven't found one I like. They're all either too big, too small, or too power hungry. In other project news, some time in the last month and a half the battery ran out. I haven't been checking it very often, so I don't have any real sense of when exactly it gave up.