At full-force stream, the Allegro will pour straight down from the spout. At full-force stream, the Metro pours at a slight angle, forward.

If your sink drain hole is toward the back, point faucet arm over drain hole, you want the water to pour down and out (reach as far as) at the front edge of the drain hole in the big sink.

Metro (06697) is being discontinued per Hansgrohe site??? Talis S 0680100 taking its place. Looks like handle is only difference, but am not sure.

Your mockups look great!

Muscat,
Terrific mock-ups! The information from teedup1 is really helpful. Are you happy with your Ticor sink? It looks really nice in the pictures. How are the other decisions coming on the floor and backsplash?

Take another measure, Muscat, pretending your granite is down. Instead of measuring the "reach" from the back, fixture center and into the sink, measure from front sink reveal edge to center of water flow stream. Mine is 7-3/4". If you're thinking the faucet arc/spigot front is so "in your face", it's not at that distance.

These huge fangled faucets look very imposing at first, but really are not. Remember too, you will never have the faucet spout positioned directly over the bridge as in your mock-up (not even when all clean and sitting there pretty for company coming or picture taking). The spigot always sits to a side, ready to go to work. Turning the faucet on with spigot directly over the sink's flat bridge will cause a splatter in all directions on a SS sink.

My 1-3/4 Ticor sink is GREAT. Looks fantastic and can't beat the price (mine $209) for 16-gauge SS ANYWHERE! Free SS sink grids are included. Folks at Galaxy are helpful, shipping from Chicago to CA was very reasonable at $28 and it got here well within a week, no sales tax either.

teedup- thanks for the pointers- when I get home I'll check the "mock up" in relation to the drain holes. I'm not sure I follow you about measuring the reach from the front. I positioned the center of the faucet about where I think it'll come out of the granite (not from the edge of the sink) and considered that the "reach."

My counters will be 27.5" deep, so I have some room behind the sink to move the faucet back a bit if it helps.

jb1176- I cant say much about the functionality of the sink yet, since it is still sitting there, sadly unused :( but it seems really sturdy. Flooring and backsplash are on hold for now.... :)

Okay, let me see if I can better 'splane myself. Looking at the last picture in your post...on the left side of picture, measure from front edge of sink BOWL at bridge (from wherever your granite edge will be...using either positive, negative or neutral reveal as starting point) to the center point of a running spigot.

I'm just saying that if that distance is 7-3/4" or more, (in addition to another 4 or so inches of granite counter front ledge) the spigot won't be too close to the front of the sink, or "in your face".

I'm probably making this sound way more complicated than intended.

Thanks! I get it. ;) I read your post too fast, and I could not wrap my brain around you referring to "reach" but measuring from the front of the sink. I measured as you suggested, and I have 7 1/2" from the "reveal" point (front edge of the sink/granite) to where the spout would be if pulled straight forward, and with another approximately 4" of granite in front of that, I think it'll work. And if I have it installed just a little bit farther behind the sink than I planned (about 1"), the spout will aim right at the front edges of the drain holes, so again, pretty perfect! Woohooo!!!!! I'm gonna go order it!!!!!

Good! One more hurdle out of the way. Yes, the faucet was one of the most time consuming things for me. (Second was not having my slide-in stove stick out too far beyond the cabinet face fronts. Got it sticking out only 1 inch on my 24" depth. A major success!) LOL