The Breguet 7727 (and the magnetically governed minute repeater, if they ever release it), could be the start of something.
I think the trick is to catch the imagination of the public and of purists. For example, Zenith's new silicon escapement doesn't move me at all, whereas the Breguet 7727 does. I think the former loses its connection to watchmaking of old for me (looking at a jiggling silicon web doesn't automatically invoke anything about watchmaking on first glance for me), while the latter looks like a modern evolution of a watch movement, at least for me.