When I saw the Kaleidoscope Face in the keynote, I honestly didn't pick up on the fact that it actually does have hands - I figured, "okay, I guess if you want to zone out and only care about notifications, this is the watch face for you" (to be fair, I was listening and glancing up often, but not watching the screen continuously). Definitely not my cup of tea.
I'd be more interested in new ways of quickly imparting time information without slavishly recreating the displays of mechanical movements of old. The Modular face is sort of more in the direction I'd go (a tiny information appliance where time is one of the most important pieces of information), but... It's just - to my mind - not a very good use of the space. Give me some good analog/digital displays. Give me literal timelines. Give me a 24 hour dial with midnight at the bottom (along with a clearly readable HH:MM display for quick answers) that shows nighttime/daytime/sunrise/sunset, with marks on the dial indicating alarms and calendar events (and just a single hand - you're this far through the day). Give me a dozen varied choices along these lines and let me pick the one that works best for me.
On similar lines (it's not any of the faces suggested in the previous paragraph), the clock that a Raspberry Pi is displaying in my living room gives me a time display where I can see the transition to a new minute from across the room, even though the circle of dots for the seconds is a bit under two inches across, I can easily read the precise hour/minute/second or have an analog approximation (whichever suits my needs better at the moment), the digital time is color coded for which part of the day it is, and there's a little map (timeline) of precisely where (down to the hour) the current time is in the current week (FWIW, the other two-thirds of the screen, not shown, is home-and-regional weather information and Hue lighting controls). I'd dearly love to be able to play around with building my own watch faces for the watch on my wrist.
(And on the traditional watch front, I have a Marathon Divers Medium and a Mondaine Swiss Railway, both quartz, that I love. I've tried to get excited about mechanical/automatic watches, but I can't, because their accuracy sucks: my Marathon loses about two seconds a month - I can't abide by 3-4 seconds a day. "Yes, but it never needs batteries" they say. To which I answer, "yeah, but before too long, it doesn't actually tell the right time, which is the raison d'être of a watch". I love finely made mechanical devices, but that love is severely diminished when they fall flat against the competition. My one regret with the Apple Watch is that it keeps me from wearing the others - especially via the activity rings / streaks - and I miss them.)
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