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I have seen this behavior once since updating to the most recent OS. I rebooted the watch and it hasn’t done it again since.
There is another thread somewhere about this and as you say restart the AW seems to solve it (assuming the updates are current)
 
I have seen this behavior once since updating to the most recent OS. I rebooted the watch and it hasn’t done it again since.
Rebooting seems to have fixed it, now there is very slight slow motion movement sometimes. It just moves to the next minute so it seems to be working now after reboot.
 
I have had a series 5 since it was released. I have never seen this jumping before, it is from a software update, not hardware. If it had been happening it would have bugged me quite a bit, hence the reason I am posting this. Here is the video.

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...mine does exactly the same thing.

I'm currently on Watch OS 8.0 and my iPhone is on iOS 15.0.

I have a strange thing going on with a particular watchface on my Watch - its the Activity Analogue watchface specifically.

So this is the issue: Lets say the current time is 11:00am and I don't look at the watchface for a number of minutes, when I next go to look at the watchface, the hands of the clock correctly show the correct time however, the hands actually jump from the previous time to the correct time (so, for a fraction of a second, I will see the hands at 11:00 but then I actually see them jump to the current time) ??

Its like the hands get stuck at the last time at which I looked at the screen but then suddenly jump to the correct time??! This is happening every singe time I look at the screen and it is ONLY happening on this particular watchface (it does NOT happen on any other analogue watchface)??
 
...mine does exactly the same thing.

I'm currently on Watch OS 8.0 and my iPhone is on iOS 15.0.

I have a strange thing going on with a particular watchface on my Watch - its the Activity Analogue watchface specifically.

So this is the issue: Lets say the current time is 11:00am and I don't look at the watchface for a number of minutes, when I next go to look at the watchface, the hands of the clock correctly show the correct time however, the hands actually jump from the previous time to the correct time (so, for a fraction of a second, I will see the hands at 11:00 but then I actually see them jump to the current time) ??

Its like the hands get stuck at the last time at which I looked at the screen but then suddenly jump to the correct time??! This is happening every singe time I look at the screen and it is ONLY happening on this particular watchface (it does NOT happen on any other analogue watchface)??

...this seems to be fixed for me now also (my Watch is on OS 8.5.1).
 
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I thought I was the only one with this problem, been searching on Google and couldn’t find anything. It is driving me crazy my iPhone XR and watch series 7 are on the most up to date iOS 15.4.1 and 8.5.1, and I have reset my watch, but still the time “freezes” I am using the Nike Bounce watch face. I originally had Wake to Wrist Raise on and the AOD clock would freeze and once I raise my wrist it would jump to the correct current time. So I experimented and turn the wake to wrist raise off, but the AOD clock still freezes and now seems to be getting worse, as today the AOD clock froze and when I tapped it it jumped by 20 minutes. I am worried that one day I will be late for work because of this. The whole basis of a watch is that it tells the correct time!
 
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