On the principal menu of my G-Shock, I have the time on ~80% of the screen. The rest is 8/19, WED and the seconds. Of course the time is smaller when I go to the tide screen.

And what percentage is the screen of the top surface of the watch?

You might wanna take a look at Casio AE-1500WH.

I have it. I sometimes hate the fake screws on it, but I love it.

Nearly 50% of today’s $45,000 Rolex Daytona is taken up by superfluous text like this.

Right, that’s why it costs $45,000 rather than just $25,000.

There are some editions of their models which don't have any of those labels and they look much better. But I think they never went far enough, and design a good looking digital g-shock with big time and date, nothing else. When I was younger, small time display was fine, but now as someone with presbyopia (like any 40+ adult) those digits are just too small.

The only thing my watch displays is the time, any three-hand watch is exclusively dedicated to timekeeping.