The folly of modern design

[SCD]

Putting the specialty function of rotating bezels on dive watches aside, the radial distance from the tip of the minute hand to the outside of the case on a watch is of no use. In the past, the people who design watches understood this. Search Google images for "vintage watch" and look at all the sensible watches that make use of the top face of the watch for, what do you know?...displaying the time. What happened?

This is not a lament about size...I'm not against big watches, but maybe big watches may as well have long hands. Seems obvious to me.