How to make a notification started using startForeground(), sync its notification with wearable?

Question

I found that notifications triggered while using startForeground() is not showing up in wearables,

ie. for below code,

Intent notIntent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
        notIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
        PendingIntent pendInt = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0,
                notIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

        NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);

        builder.setContentIntent(pendInt)
        .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.play)
        .setTicker(songTitle)
        .setContentTitle("Playing")
        .setContentText(songTitle);
        Notification not = builder.build();
        startForeground(NOTIFY_ID, not);

but if I re-write the code like this,

NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);

        builder.setContentIntent(pendInt)
        .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.play)
        .setTicker(songTitle)
        .setContentTitle("Playing")
        .setContentText(songTitle);

    NotificationManagerCompat notificationManager =
            NotificationManagerCompat.from(MusicService.this);

    notificationManager.notify(NOTIFY_ID, builder.build());

wearbles start displaying it.

So my conclusion is that startForeground() might not be using the 'Compat' version of notification manager to notify.Is there any way I can foreground a service and make the notification it produce to also show up on a wearable without writing a wearable app?

P.S I am talking about a handheld app here not a wear app, the topic of discussion is syncing the notification from a handheld app which is started using startforeground() in a service of the handheld app to auto sync with a wearable.