Apologies not necessary, everyone busy, but luckily this forum is super helpful and good to see such good community support. You and the regulars gave me confidence to proceed.
Full android watches have a lot of value and its the wearable form factor that suits me. Dont want a big phone, want a tiny one, with an occassional hotspot, notifications, clockfaces with array_type 100 for quick access to things, some music playing, a basic camera, a good battery - and I have a tablet and PC for everything else and a small bluetooth headset so I dont look like im in the CIA when a get a phone call, talking to my wrist 
In case anyone is interested, Ive not succeeded in getting the ubuntu/debian/linux version of flashtool running. Its core dumping with a floating point error. Crash dump not revealing much to me, just that the code seems a little old perhaps.