>it goes against one time-honored watch tradition: simple, elegant mechanics.

So, just like every digital watch ever created?

Congratulations. You've won today's "Find something to moan about" prize!

Seriously though - stop getting hung up on the word 'watch' - it's not the real point here. Nobody is arguing that telling the time doesn't require a full blown OS.

> simple, elegant mechanics.

Have you ever looked inside a watch!

  > simple, elegant mechanics.
  Have you ever looked inside a watch!

Well, I'd grant the "elegant mechanics", getting all those teensy cogs and wheels and levers and bits to work together like, er, clockwork…

But "simple"? It's telling that the term for each feature on a watchface is "complication" :-D