In-house movement developed to be reasonably thin against the Valjoux 7750 which was developed to be mass produced and cheap to make. Not really a valid or fair comparison.
Really like everything about these ones, except the thickness... Tried on the blue and it was really nice looking. Love the solid caseback (wish they would be on that level on more models), love that white sporty inner ring. Even like the "aged" lume, if you forget about it trying to be aged lume I think it works well with the blue.
They do look nice (like the other new Calibre 16 models) but are too thick (like the other new Calibre 16 models). There's a point at which a watch becomes lumpy and slab-sided, and this is far beyond that IMO.
A note about the lume - SuperLuminova lume does not patinate the way tritium lume did. So if they had not gone with a vintage-yellow color and instead went with stark white, it most certainly would not age over time to that hue. You'd be stuck with white.
If I bought a white car I'd want it to stay white, I don't get why people want their lume to discolour?
