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Thanks - yes, I think the Bangle's battery life helps to set it apart from a lot of other smartwatches at the moment.
While covering the barometer hole can help, there's also an issue with water ingress in the button. It does have a rubber o-ring seal and grease in there which should fend off a bit of water, but I can't recommend it for submersion. I think in some cases where people have repeatedly showered with it, the detergent has slowly got rid of the grease in the button and then water has got in, or perhaps the tolerances aren't quite right on some of them.
Personally I'd only really be happy calling a new watch waterproof if it had something like a silicone over-cast so there is literally no hole (rubber o-ring or otherwise) that water could get in, but doing that in a way that doesn't look really blocky could be quite tricky!