I had two pleasant surprises yesterday. First one, I worked with our IT group and had an MDM profile installed on my phone, and as soon as that was placed my Exchange emails started coming through on the watch. Not sure why a managed profile would now allow it to flow to the phone. Tt was on the phone as an non-managed account, not sure why only a managed profile allows it to the phone. Either way, it's working now. The only down side to the managed profile is that I now have to provide my iTunes password even for free items due to the restrictions in the profile. Good trade so I can have the entries flow to the watch.
Second surprise is that a member of Apple engineering called me to discuss this since I had a case previously, and they said they noticed that I was still having issues. Good to know that Apple is still roaming these parts!