I used OSHpark's 0.8mm / 2oz double-sided service to save a bit of width on the ring. When the boards arrived, they were nicely routed but required a decent bit of clean-up with a file as mousebites aren't nice to fingers:

Note the holes on each positive battery contact; these are Zn-air cells, so the vents should be exposed to the atmosphere.

The circuit includes two board-to-board jumpers along with four high-resistance structural resistors, all made from standard 0805 components. I pre-assembled these on a heat-resistant surface (in this case, my PTFE-jawed Stickvise):

Easiest method here is to carefully align the two components with tweezers...

... dab a tiny bit of flux at the junction...

.... and touch the junction with a tinned iron tip.

Done!

Once I had the 0805 jumpers sorted, I started soldering the vertical components onto the switch side of the ring. I followed my standard SMT soldering procedure here: a drop of flux on the pad...

... careful alignment with tweezers...

... and a touch with a tinned iron tip.

The same procedure works for the QFN ATtiny, too, although the iron 'touch' turns into more of a 'scrub'. If this doesn't make sense, I made a QFN hand-soldering video a few months ago that explains the concept a bit better. Note that in both cases, holding the part near the bottom helps a lot to ensure the component is square. Practice makes perfect...

Examination through the loupe ensures we've got a good fillet (not yet defluxed...):

The rest of the parts go on in a similar manner. The LEDs live on either side of an 0508 stubby resistor, so I soldered these onto each side before mating the halves, as shown in this picture from an earlier log:

[keen observers will notice that this is a different copy of the board with the QFN rotated 90 degrees. This was wrong, and I actually had to rework this component after the two halves of the ring were assembled. Yes, solder braid can work miracles.]

Since the batteries are a bit under 4mm tall -- more like 3.3mm, give or take -- I used a set of tiny spring tabs to fill the gap:

[yes, I didn't really plan the PCB footprint around these tabs, so they hang over a bit. And the QFN definitely needs to be straightened out. Soldering under the camera is a pain.]

These worked for a time, but eventually the batteries fell out; the tabs plastically deformed after a few insertions and eventually broke. During one of the periodic tab tightenings I attempted over the course of a few days, I pried a bit too hard and the back of the ring actually broke. It seems that I need to treat 0805 resistor stacks like unreinforced concrete columns -- not so great in tension, as the caps tend to pop off:

Fortunately none of the pads were damaged, so I replaced the resistor jumpers with lengths of wire. I used tiny scraps of self-adhesive conductive RF gasket for the batteries, which seems to work but still doesn't seem ideal:

Just popped in a new set of batteries, so I'll wear the repaired ring for a bit and see if any other weaknesses pop up. I'm starting to make a list of improvements for the next rev which I'll share next time, as this log is already long enough.