Micro-rotor watches: WWR Top 10

If you’re here, you’re probably much like us. You like watches due to the fact that they’re tiny, purpose-driven machines that we can carry around with us in daily life. Mechanical watches personify this, and the ease an automatic winding movement provides is certainly to be appreciated. However, an automatic movement makes for a thicker watch than a manually-wound one. That is, until you realize that there is such a thing as a micro-rotor movement.

What is a micro-rotor movement?

It’s precisely what it sounds like. Rather than having a rotor that is the same diameter as the movement, you have one that is significantly smaller (for more details and some history, check out this article). Most times, the diameter of a micro-rotor is the radius of the overall movement. With this smaller size, it can be tucked into the movement itself, which reduces the overall thickness of the movement. This, in turn, leads to a thinner watch. A thinner watch makes things lighter and more comfortable on your wrist. With those basics out of the way, lets move on to our current Top 10 micro-rotor watches, in no particular order.