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I got the OMG0313A SS Ladymatic with diamond hour markers and a smooth bezel from Andrew of Trusty Time for my girlfriend back in September of 2014 and she absolutely loves it. I checked it with the gen and it pretty close with minor differences (coral instead of mother of pearl, non-hacking movt. instead of hacking). The lack of AR coating on the crystal is okay, as the dial makes up for the lack of AR but I'd imagine that it would bring the look of the dial up with it. It has a Miyota 9105 which is pretty decent for a rep; it's still working now with little to no issues and she's been able to adjust and set the watch on her own which is a good benefit. She switches between Bulova (for work) and the Ladymatic (for everything else) that I got her so accuracy is not an essential factor but it keeps good time. I like to keep tabs on her watch because of how pretty it is and the hit or miss reliability of reps and it seems to hold up well on her wrist besides the normal scratches from being worn.

I looked at their sample QC pics and besides the missing polished center-links, the applied indices are applied pretty terribly (indices didn't line up with the yellow numbers). Besides those issues, it was mostly in order.

Ahh, you're correct. That review was when I was really new the rep world; the title and content will be corrected accordingly. EDIT: Unfortunately, the the post is past editing period and I can't do nothing about it.

My old man was able to snag a really good Day-Date there, when I snagged a pre-ceramic Sub there (for kicks and giggles) it was all over the place and absolutely crap (for their popular seller). I learned my lesson quick and got a BP ceramic sub and a gen Sub not too long after that. I wished I got pictures of it before I just trashed it. Lol.

I had a PO v5 ultimate literally die during Christmas weekend only getting it a couple a days before that. I sent it back a day after Christmas letting him know of the problem and to send it back so that his watchsmith can look at it. I made a post detailing my ordeal in detail here. My review of the watch after getting it back explained a bit of what the repair entailed. Main points are that it takes a while for turnaround of a watch in repair, due to the customs and the mailing system in China (as I found out). Best thing to do is to keep in constant contact with Andrew to keep him familiar with your return (I kept in contact with him almost once a month to once every two weeks depending on circumstances). Follow his directions on how to send it back to allow it the best possible chance to reach him and his watchsmith as well as avoid customs seizing it. All while expressing the greatest amount of patience when the whole repair process is in progress.

My wrist size is ~6.5" it's good for working on cars where I need to stick my hand into tight spaces to get to hidden bolts. I think the movement wasn't secured in addition to being an old ETA movement; I had someone take off the case back and noticed that the movement only had 2 out of 3 screws attached to the case. My OCD level is high for certain things but I guess I'm rather lenient on the pearl; I was more initially bothered by the low placement of the Omega logo on the dial until I got over it. The last picture was taken a bit after midnight when the date is transitioning into the next day, the date seems to change a quarter after the hour from what I've observed. My relatives gen Rolex Day-Date rolls the date and day of the week ~15 mins before midnight and my gen Seamaster Professional changes the date around 10 mins to midnight.

Thanks, I felt like a review and a personal experience with the TD would help anyone new to the rep watch world.

Correction to the movement it's an ETA 2824-2.

I wore this watch everyday about a month after receiving it before I decided to write a review to make sure that everything was in working order and will be able to work in the long run. I placed an order for the Ultimate Planet Ocean 42mm with the Swiss 2824 movement from Andrew at Trusty Time back in late December and received it before Christmas (Most recent link is here). I loved my gen Midsized Omega Seamaster Professional, but the size of the watch (at 36mm case diameter) started to bother me, as I wanted a watch that was more substantial in weight and presence on the wrist. However, the one I got from Andrew had problems from the beginning with the crown and tube not screwing down (one turn or less to release) and the movement not working correctly (eventually stopped working all together). When it completely stopped working, I emailed Andrew and explained to him my situation and agreed to have it repaired and I shipped my watch back to him on December 27. It was a few weeks into the mailing process that I realized that it takes a long turnaround time thanks to the mailing system in China after it leaves the US (explained in this post here). Eventually, after a bunch of emails throughout the months I get an email from Andrew with a picture of the repaired watch on a movement tester and a picture of the watch with the EMS label with my adress on it, it was shipped on April 20 and was delivered to my home on the 27. In the return box, I received my repaired/replaced watch, a dial (Replaced? I'm not sure), and a frame of the ETA movement. My impressions of the repaired UPO is that it is leaps and bounds better than the one originally sent to me in December. The movement winds well and can be wound by the wrist movements (unlike the one I got originally); additionally the crown/tube is much improved, it takes a good 4~5ish turns to completely unscrew it to the first position (for winding) and screwing it down (bonus is that the feet of the logo sits almost parallel to the wrist when screwed down or point down into the wrist for clarification). The materials of the bracelet, case, and crystal are very good and is almost feels gen (as I own a Seamaster Professional as a rough reference for comparison, as they are two different watches in the Seamaster lineup). The deployment clasp is good, whether or not the engravings is correct is ignorance on my part and the diver's extension works but is fussy when you want to close it back up. The only real aesthetic inaccuracies that someone can really call me out on are the bezel pearl (which isn't centered in the triangle) and that the raised Omega logo sits a tad too low above the Omega lettering on the dial (which is a bit less noticeable). The AR (anti-reflective) coating is present and often appears blue, but in certain lighting conditions will show the correct purple color; additionally the AR coating is easily prone to scratches when the crystal brushes up with solid objects (the repaired watch I got back had a few hard to notice scratches if you looked at them at an angle and a L shaped scratch on the bezel; I'm not too worried about those as it adds character to the watch and I'm more than glad that it works). The ETA 2824 movement is actually what Omega uses as the base movement of their 2500 caliber movements for the gen version of this watch (in which they modify this movement with George Daniels Co-Axial escapement); however, the Co-Axial escapement results in an irregular 7 beats per second as opposed to 8 on most automatically wound watches (like older Omegas and most modern Rolexes). This ETA 2824 movement doesn't suffer that lower beat rate (as this movement more than likely does not have the Co-Axial escapement installed) and has a nice smooth sweep and is rather robust which should handle a good amount of time without service; also, this particular movement keeps time really well, my aged gen Seamaster Professional keeps the time well as I wear it everyday and was serviced a few years back by Omega). The lume is were it shows a bit of weakness, it's not as bright as my gen when charged under the same light source for the same amount of time; the weak lume is the most apparent on the hands of the watch as they are dimly when charged under a light source. However, fluorescent light seems to charge it well as well as natural light, LED light doesn't like to mesh with the lume from what I observed when I used my phone's LED camera flash (in flashlight mode) to charge the lume. This watch fooled my uncle who loves Omegas and was shocked when I told him that it cost only $300 and change and that it was a rep. Needless to say he was rather impressed and wanted one for himself. To conclude this review, besides the small aesthetic inaccuracies and the lume, it is a rep that is definitely worth owning that is really close to the gen in many ways; as well as to commend Andrew for his patience and service for my watch during the repair process. Definitely let him know if there is something bothering you during the QC pic phase all the way to when something happens to it. My plan for my next rep is that I want is a Rolex Submariner in either the non-ceramic (like the D or Z serials without holes in the case and without the rehaut engravings) or the ceramic version (as long as it's accurate). I got a cheap Canal Street sub rep in New York as a souvenir but I want to have something like my UPO or gen that I can rock daily. I really wished I could of gotten the BK TW sub before he sold out, but I am looking at the TC sub and a ceramic sub from Andrew (since searching the forums didn't yield much on the Ultimate sub from TT, ROLSUB0017). That's my plan and my review, thank you for reading.

Hopefully, your PAM will make it Josh and be returned to you; I'm sure other members can vouch for his repair service.

I'm sorry to hear that. I was afraid of the same thing (being $3xx out of the hole) when I first sent the UPO back to Andrew, but I followed most of his instructions to a t and he was able to receive it.

I got my watch back!!! They did a good job in repairing my crown/tube issue and replaced the dial and the frame of the movement. In the process of pulling the pins out and resizing the bracelet and start wearing it. Hopefully a lot longer than the first time. Hats off to Andrew for putting up with my emails and getting it done.

My email domain does a pretty good job distinguishing what's spam and whats not. Every TT email and newsletter has made it though and did not get filtered into the spam folder. The tracking number that I got in the repair email shows movement in China so far. It looks like my UPO is finally coming back to me.

That's outrageous, have you emailed them back and checked up on them?

I'm just hoping that the crown and the movement will last me a lot longer than when I initially got it.