: What a disappointingly ugly movement, dominated by that big rotor -
: at least the original micro rotor lets us see more of the
: movement. I guess I'd read your earlier post Abel and must have
: repressed the memory thanks to the ugliness of the thing! ;)

: Let's hope the "proper" manufacture gets underway
: at TH soon and they give us some attractive movements, though a
: lot of automatics are fairly identikit nowadays - I guess
: there's only so much you can do with more or less the same set
: of components... I think manual-wind movements still tend to
: look nicer because they don't have to be dominated by a big
: rotor, though even those have often looked pretty similar over
: the years.

Microrotors seem to be the exclusive realm of Patek Philippe and Universal Geneva nowadays. Even recently launched chrono manufacture auto movements from Ebel and Breitling use the standard size rotor. An interesting development is the new Bucherer calibre with a "peripheric" rotor, which allows an unobstructed view of the movement, but there is no a chrono version available yet.