Not sure why an analog movement would be considered "metrology" in the last 50 years, honestly. Sure, there are accurate ones, but digital technologies and being able to display finer gradations have dominated all the most sensitive and highest resolution measurements in recent decades. There are personal preference things and natural averaging/quick display things that analog meters can offer, but those aren't really in the realm of metrology.
Maybe the digital meters you have used haven't been well suited to your applications, maybe your analog meters are particularly good and have been well suited to your applications, but the fact is that the precision of a digital readout from a properly specified acquisition system blows an analog meter movement out of the water every time. Even when the sensitivity and the dynamic range of the analog system are the same (or even superior), you can get about 3 digits worth of display precision on a regular sized movement, and you simply can't distinguish finer gradations which many digit digital displays have no trouble showing you - and in many applications these fine details are essential for developing, troubleshooting, or characterizing the DUT.
If you like analog meters, great. If you have had a bad experience with digital ones, that's too bad. Don't know how that invalidates the entire architecture across dozens of brands and hundreds of models that have been obviously preferred and market-dominant for several decades.
But I gotta say.... whining about needing a battery....... yikes. So your preferred analog meter doesn't even have an ohms range? I'd prefer something with features from at least the 50s...