Quite annoying -- but it's a beta after all. I shouldn't complain. I did what every good beta tester would do: I filed a bug (it's still unanswered from what I can see).

Beta updates came and went but the date did not come back. Would I be unable to use my watch to figure out the date?! It's when you lose a feature that you see how often a day you use it.

And then, out of the blue, the big stable release. Apple Watch OS 7 is released to the general public. Surely, I thought, they must've fixed it now.

But alas, I was to be disappointed.

I updated Shan's watch (that never ran the beta) to see if she had the same issue -- but her watch was fine. Sooooo... What was I doing wrong? Why me, Apple Overlord?

I started fiddling around with my language and regional settings (nope, not it), and was contemplating a factory reset (argh, re-adding all my cards to Apple Pay)...

And then...

An epiphany.

They wouldn't?!?! Would they??

Something only Apple would dare to do.

I deleted the Apple Calendar app (on my iPhone) -- as I use the Google Calendar app. Would that somehow be related?

And guess what... Installing the Apple Calendar app via the App Store resolved it:

Check Apple Watch and the option is back!

That's one way of forcing people to use your apps.