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SM Factory Replica Omega Speedmaster Moon Watch Grey Side of the Moon

This watch has already been released for quite some time and was first produced around March this year by SM Factory. When SM first released its promotional posters, I was actually quite expect it, because many people had been asking whether a super clone version of this model would ever come out.

However, after the watch was launched, it didn’t really make much of an impact in the market, and it also didn’t turn out to be as impressive as the factory had promoted.

The watch comes with a box, with some accessories inside, including one extra band. The case is made with real ceramic, but not like the ceramic case on other Omega moon watch I have seen, the ceramic case on this one is not high-polish, it looks slightly grey. Seeing from sides, the finishing of the case lines is excellent. I think these two are the biggest selling points on this watch, beautiful package and excellent case shape.

The watch was made by some other factory before, but the case made out was too thick, this one from SM Factory has a case whose thickness is around 14.5mm. However, to achieve such a thin case, some function has been sacrificed on the watch. For example, on the dial of genuine watch, the subdial at 6 is a 12-hour chronograph counter, but on this replica by SM, it is another small hour hand that displays the hour time like the central big hour hand. Actually the factory can fix this small hand at 12, so that this flaw will not be too noticeable.

The replica watch is powered by a handwound movement based on ST19. The genuine watch is equipped with an Omega 3869. We can see the obvious differences between the genuine and fake. On the replica watch, the movement plates look too bright. By the way, the watch has a weight of about 105 grams.

Omega 3869 Movement
Genuine Omega 3869
ST19 Movement
Fake movement.
Replica Omega Grey Side of the Moon
Omega Grey Side of the Moon Dial
Omega Grey Side of the Moon Crown
Omega Grey Side of the Moon Case
Omega Grey Side of the Moon Buckle
Omega Logo on Buckle
ST19 Movement
Omega Grey Side of the Moon Lume
Omega Grey Side of the Moon Box
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The First Moon Watch – Replica Omega Apollo 11 Speedmaster

Omega Apollo 11 Speedmaster Replica

Omega Speedmaster is indeed the first watch to land on the moon, so there are a lot of people calling Speedmaster “Moonwatch”. On my blog, I have introduced two Speedmaster watches, one is Dark Side of The Moon, the other is 331.10.42.51.01.002, two are good replicas because I only brought high end replicas to my blog. Now, I am going to introduce a real moon watch here, it is a replica of Omega Speedmaster Apollo 11 40th Anniversary Edition, which is the first watch landed on the moon in human history.

Omega Apollo 11 Speedmaster Watch

Full stainless steel made, the replica features a steel case that is fully brushed. Black bezel forms a sharp contrast with white stainless steel case. Chrono buttons adopt the design of pushers used on Rolex Daytona Paul Newman. Case is cut very well, every corner or edge has a great angular feeling, it is good and gives the wearer a perfect hand touch. The case back is eye-catching, there is a 3D eagle patch on the yellow gold case back, “APPOLLO 11” and “40TH ANNIVERSARY” are curved on the golden part, while “THE FIRST WATCH WORN ON THE MOON” is engraved on steel case back rim.

Omega Apollo 11 Speedmaster Bezel

Matte black dial is mathing the black bezel. The replica has chronograph function like genuine, so there are three subdials. The golden small dial positioned at 9 o’clock is for small seconds, it has digits “00/69”, which means that the watch only has 69 pieces. Two other sunken subdials at 3 and 6 are for minute and hour chronograph separately. There is a special statement on the dial, it is “02:56 GMT” in red, this stands for the GMT time which the Apollo 11 landed Neil Armstrong on the moon in 1969. There are lume dots besides each stick steel hour markers, hour and minute hands as well as central second-chronograph hand are all with luminescent fill.

Omega Apollo 11 Speedmaster Moon Watch

The bracelet is a bright spot of the replica, it makes the watch more elegant. The steel bracelet consists of three section of links, it uses brush and polish craft, so the whole band perfectly matches the steel case.

Omega Apollo 11 Speedmaster Case Back

About movement, genuine watch uses Omega Caliber 1861 and has 48-hour power reserve. Like Rolex Daytona Paul Newman replica, this Omega replica watch is powered by a Venus 75 movement, which is hand wound, you must wind the watch every day, maybe two times a day or it could not supply enough energy.

Omega Speedmaster Clasp

Besides Planet Ocean, Speedmaster is the second montly requested Omega watch, plus the rich history and special title “Moon Watch”, this replica really gets a lot of attention.