SMP Chrono Black

[DirtyVader]

Looked everywhere, couldn't find a review of this watch (which is suprising cos it's hot) so sorry if stuff said here has been covered. By Tor's guide says it's an excellent replication, but by looking at the pics on dealers' sites, the bracelet engraving seems to says "Speedmaster" instead of "Seamaster Professional".

Example here

Apart from that and the subdial spacing all looks good, as far as I can see. Has anyone bought this watch who can tell me how it's performing? You reckon I can get a dealer to source the correct bracelet for it? For instance Is there a reason why the bracelet from the blue chrono wouldn't fit?

Cheers.

[omeega]

I had, and now my friend has, this rep. It is excellent quality for the price. The overall look of the watch is accurate, the bezel and pearl are great, the dial and subdial were textured very well with so-so lume, and mine kept very good time.

The suddial spacing is annoying, primarily because it affects the size of the hour marker at 3,6,9. The 'Omega' logo is wrong, the gens I've seen have the letters extending through middle versus the bottom. The chronograph on mine rarely reset exactly to zero, which I've heard is possible even in the gen. I think I bought mine from Josh, may have been Andrew. The watch stopped a day a two after receiving it, but my local watchsmith fixed it for like $30. Unfortunately I don't remember what was wrong.

My primary issue, which led me to sell it, was the bracelet. I even replaced the clasp with a correct seamaster clasp, but the bracelet tapers on the rep getting narrower at the clasp, whereas with the gen it remains wide at the clasp like the blue smp or PO. The links are also thicker towards the case on the gen. NOT wider, but thicker, giving it a much beefier, tougher look and having the thickness of the bracelet match the size and thickness of the case.

If you just like the look of this watch I highly recommend it. Personally, this has been my favorite watch for years and I will be buying the gen soon, so I sold mine to make room for reps of other watches I'm not as in love with (Slevin).

[DirtyVader]

I had, and now my friend has, this rep. It is excellent quality for the price. The overall look of the watch is accurate, the bezel and pearl are great, the dial and subdial were textured very well with so-so lume, and mine kept very good time.

The suddial spacing is annoying, primarily because it affects the size of the hour marker at 3,6,9. The 'Omega' logo is wrong, the gens I've seen have the letters extending through middle versus the bottom. The chronograph on mine rarely reset exactly to zero, which I've heard is possible even in the gen. I think I bought mine from Josh, may have been Andrew. The watch stopped a day a two after receiving it, but my local watchsmith fixed it for like $30. Unfortunately I don't remember what was wrong.

My primary issue, which led me to sell it, was the bracelet. I even replaced the clasp with a correct seamaster clasp, but the bracelet tapers on the rep getting narrower at the clasp, whereas with the gen it remains wide at the clasp like the blue smp or PO. The links are also thicker towards the case on the gen. NOT wider, but thicker, giving it a much beefier, tougher look and having the thickness of the bracelet match the size and thickness of the case.

If you just like the look of this watch I highly recommend it. Personally, this has been my favorite watch for years and I will be buying the gen soon, so I sold mine to make room for reps of other watches I'm not as in love with (Slevin).

Thanks a lot for the detailed response! I'll certainly consider getting one, but it does suffer from some annoying flaws as you've detailed. The small hour markers which weren't a big deal for me are even staring to dissuade me now.