Back up and running. ESD was the issue. It seems that the programmer suffered an ESD event when I was handling it. The watch itself it thankfully no worse for wear. That was annoying. Still I have things to improve on the ESD safety of my work area. Also, Digikey is awesome. They got me a board in just a few days over a holiday weekend. Just outstanding service. On to hacking at the firmware until the crumbled pieces of code vaguely resemble their intent.