Laurent Ferrier Classic Micro-Rotor Owner Review : Remarkable, elegant and soothing

My desire stubbornly pursues the somewhat confused image that I carry deep inside me of an ideal watch: a discreet, traditional, elegant and technically remarkable rose gold watch. It was therefore quite likely that I would like the Classic micro rotor by Laurent Ferrier. When I discovered, a year ago (in April 2023) the newly launched version with an “evergreen” dial, I found it wonderful. I then discovered, on the second-hand market, this version with a slate dial and decided to acquire it. Two elements differentiate this dial and make me particularly like it: first, the small gold indexes in the form of studs for the minutes (which are absent from many other versions); second, the golden/copper color of the “Laurent Ferrier Genève”. For the rest, everything is exceptional: the reactions of the dial to light, the onion-shaped crown, the spear-shaped hands and, of course, the micro rotor movement with natural escapement, whose architecture and manual finishing I never tire of admiring. This watch now forms, with the Corne de Vache by Vacheron and the Quattro Spirit by Chopard, a trio particularly dear to my heart and perhaps — who knows? — definitive.