How to hide some Apple app icons?

Just got an Apple Sports Watch for my wife.
The tiny icons are hard for her to see and tap accurately. She has no interest in about half of the Apple provided apps, (such as Stocks, Weather, Mail, Passbook) and wants to not show them. This would leave the display less cluttered, and leave room for the custom apps she wants.
How can we do this? I cannot find this in the manual. Surely Apple won't force us to show icons for apps we don't want or use. It's not the Apple way.

Good point, Meg.
The funny part is that there is a simple  toggle switch preference in Apple Watch iPhone app that allows you (for any custom app) to 'show on Watch' or not.
If Apple just enabled that for the Apple apps, that problem would be solved without having to delete them. Very easy software tweak.
Actually, I think the bigger problem is that the Watch UI does not have a well-designed system for having/using a large number of Watch apps. Imagine having 20 of our apps plus the 15 Apple ones. How in the world could you find them? This occurred on the iPhone several years ago, and finally Apple devised the multipage home screen plus folders. Did they forget about that?
If they want us to develop lots of apps for the Watch, there must be a practical way for the users to use them, or the market will be very small.

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