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Watch continuously disconnects when abroad

I run into a strange problem when I travel abroad (in my case: from Holland to the US). I first noticed this in New York early last year: the Watch constantly gave the notification “you left your phone”, which I didn’t, I was wearing it with me.

At this moment I’m in California and it’s just insane. I get the notification all the time, notifications from my phone to my watch don’t come through and navigation instructions don’t automatically go to the Watch when I take a walk.

I have no idea why this is, could it have something to do with me using a second e-sim pure for data when visiting America? The Watch is a cellular model but no subscription is set up on it.