The advantage of your analog meter is that it has infinite resolution
And finite precision to the point of not getting higher effective resolution than what you can estimate given the printed scale, but there's no reason to start this argument here.
I think because of the size/shape of a readable analog dial, benchtop meters in this form factor were not so common when they were still in fashion. Most higher end analog meters you find are in the "handheld" style even if they're a bit big for that, and while you occasionally find combo meters like this one, once the manufacturer went digital, they generally didn't bother. You see them in older RF power meters sometimes, but multimeters are generally one or the other and what we think of as standard bench form factor meters are almost all digital.
If you can test it and verify it's in good shape, I don't see why you can't use it - and there's probably ways of adjusting trimmers and such to get it back in spec if it's drifted around.