What's your preference with complications?

E. It depends on the mechanical watch and its intended purpose.

That said, I generally tend to prefer watches with a GMT and date complication.

Agreed with Jbird I think it really depends on the situation 

Every day wear GMT and date for me 

None of the above options. Depends on the watch itself, and how are the complications fitting the overall design.

Depends on your daily job if having a complication or two would help you. Like a date for an office job, GMT for a traveling or office job that has clients in different regions, etc. For me, I work in a labor intensive job so I have a Casio but it has a date function which is very useful. 

Really depends on the design of the watch. I generally prefer simple watches, but I also like it when watches can execute complications in an elegant and aesthetically pleasing way (thinking of my Junghans Max Bill Chronoscope and my SBGM221)

Grand Complication watches rule but often the dials of watches with chronographs and multiple complications get too busy.  The clean and simple dials of the pilot and field watches tell time without confusion.  The classiest dress watches are very clean and simple without many complications.  That said the world timer minute repeater pictured has just the right amount of complications for me. 

I don't fall into any of those categories, and it really does depend on how the complications are presented.   

For example, I love that my z-blue Milgauss doesn't doesn't have any complications because it would take away from that beautiful dial,  but I really love that my Polar Exp II has that orange GMT hand.  It enhances the beauty of the dial, and I do use the complication.

For me the aesthetics and wearability comes before anything else in a watch.  If I don't love the dial and how it wears, the rest doesn't matter.

It depends, that's why we buy more than one watch :p

I am with the ‘depends’ voices.  A better way to phrase the poll might be to specify votes for a single ‘one and done’ watch buyer.  If one is going to formulate a collection, more variety is probably (though admittedly not for the objectives of every collection) part of the collectors designs.  I love having a chronograph.  But I found having just one in the collection was all I wanted.  I love the mechanical thermostat complication that Ball sometimes offers, and I have two with that.  But I also love a great three handed watch, and have a couple of those also.

So, I think most collections probably have variety on number of complications.

The more time I spend in this madness, the more I realize that it's really simplicity that appeals the most to me. Most of what I'm drawn to at present is time-only three-handers. (More specifically, I seem to have fixated on watches that resemble the Rolex Explorer.) I think everything I'm "researching" at the moment is in that category.

I used to be the opposite. I loved calendars and moon phases and for a good while was only interested in chronographs.

I'm not sure what changed, exactly. Less to go wrong? Fewer things to fuss over? Worsening eyesight? Easier to set and go? (I refuse to purchase watch winders, as that feels like admitting I have a problem.)

So it definitely depends. I still love my GMT. But my general tastes are trending more towards the simplest watches as I look to add to the collection in future.

For me, it not about how many complications does the watch have? It is more of the overall aesthetics of the watch, whether it is the simplest time telling no date complication, or the world-time complication with fly back chronograph, it has to be pleasing to the eyes of the beholder. And the accuracy and reliability of the movement also play a part to the overall appeal of the watch. 

That is just me. In the end, there is no right or wrong. it’s just personal preferences.
 

Yes, yes very depends.