Apple watch has a red exclamation mark

As the page you came from says you now have to send in the watch for a mail in repair.

That’s completely not an acceptable solution

I'm afraid it's the only solution.

Contact apple support here;

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…so that apple can send back a refurbished one? Not thank you. I purchased mine from Best Buy. I am with in the return policy. I might just return it and re buy directly from Apple