Somewhere between the Fold plinths and the Flip's pink spotlight at Old Billingsgate, Samsung parked the table that made the whole venue make sense. The old fish market had spent the evening playing Q Branch - vaulted gloom, gleaming prototypes, the full John Cleese handing Pierce Brosnan the keys to the Vanish routine - and the watches were the gadgets Q would issue. A watch that tracks your dive depth and tells you when to drink water? 007 has carried worse. I split my session between the two of them: the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, arriving two years after the original Ultra debuted in Paris, and the Galaxy Watch 9, a hyper-refinement of last year's model that retires the Classic. One of them could survive a Bond villain's shark tank. The other wants to watch you sleep, in the caring way.The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 and Samsung Galaxy Watch 9, announced 22 July at Samsung's Old Billingsgate event in London and on pre-order in select markets from today, share the new Snapdragon Wear Elite platform, Wear OS 7 with One UI 9 Watch, and Samsung's full BioActive health stack. The Ultra 2 headlines with a 5,000-nit display - the brightest ever fitted to a smartwatch - an 800mAh battery up 35 per cent, and a diving certification earned with Mares. The Watch 9 counters with a slimmer cushion case, two sizes and a 3,000-nit screen. India pricing lands at launch; placeholders wait below.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.