Laurent Ferrier Galet Micro-Rotor Hands-On

Laurent Ferrier has launched a number of timepieces with interesting case shapes from square, to elongated, and most recently, a shape similar to a Nautilus, but arguably the shape that's still the best-looking is their round case, seen on their entry-level Galet Micro-Rotor Today, we have a very similar Galet Micro-Rotor that's 40 mm, and has a slightly different dial, and an 18K white gold case, for about $40K less, yet it maintains the same movement, case design, and so forth Polished white gold Assegai-shaped hands and applied hour markers punctuate the clean dial, along with a snailed small seconds counter, with a polished white gold baton-shaped hand at 6 o'clock.

As we've mentioned before, when designing and producing the hands for this watch Laurent Ferrier contacted multiple Swiss watch hand manufacturers, focusing on creating something distinctive In 2009-2010 one of these hands makers brought back from retirement a master craftsman to achieve what is probably today the most complex hands in the industry, according to the company The result, is, of course, the Assegai-shaped hands that have become a signature of the Laurent Ferrier brand.

As you would expect from timepiece costing this much, every component has been hand finished. . Source