You have an odd sense of how to use a watch then. I've NEVER picked up ANY watch even with the Analog face on the display and not noticed the time. That's the whole point of my tilting my wrist. Again, pick up and tilt my watch, ready to check messages and BAM! The time is displayed for me to either read or I suppose ignore. YMMV. However, if you ignore it, it's not a design issue of the device or app screen. I call user error.
Also, you noted above that it would be odd to have your watch screen ON all the time. So that would mean you have to either tilt your wrist and activate it to be ON thus seeing the time, or manually touch it to turn it ON again, thus seeing the time, or be a completely aloof person who purposely doesn't notice the TIME on their own WATCH! WOW!
That's a use issue not a device issue. I might even go so far as to say a design issue of your on/lock screen. On my Note 3, I have my display set up to show a lot of information, but the TIME is the largest font and easily noticed at a glance thus whenever I pick up my phone, I know the time.
The time on an iPhone lock screen is huge. that's not the issue. When I go to use the watch or my phone for something other than to check the time, I don't pause to notice the time, sorry. I immediately go to the app I need. Maybe because your watch doesn't always show the time, it has trained you to always look at the time first.
For example, I just saw the neighborhood albino squirrel in my yard so I grabbed my iPhone to take a picture. Do I know what the time is right now from the iPhone? Nope.
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