BP - Omega Planet Ocean 42mm, Titanium

[Mightybenster]

Haven't heard much about BP, or seen much on the titanium used in Reps.

Has anyone got any experience with either? - or where I can read up.

Is it really Grade 5 Titanium, and how does it hold up?
Are there any known flaws I should be aware of with a BP Planet Ocean?

 

[shinynewbling25]

Hey there, I've had two of the BP titanium reps. I had one that I kept pristine and the other which was a beater and well, pretty scratched up. I sold both in 2020 so you can probably find my sales posts for pictures. There are two versions. One is the older or original version that I bought new. Not sure how long it was in production but it didn't have a ceramic bezel. It was a very blue painted over a shiny bezel. It looked great to me. But I think people complained it wasn't ceramic and TD's would even send you a ceramic bezel replacement part and they updated (not necessarily an upgrade to me) the watch to have a ceramic bezel with grey paint for the numbers which could chip or scrape off. The beater watch was the one with the ceramic bezel and only had a small piece of a number come off. I would say it is NOT a problem. The other looked very shiny and blingy which was great for me but I don't know how "liquid metal" looks on gens so it could be very blingy on those as well.

Since we're reviewing... Faults: The AR had a greenish tint. It worked well but was definitely a green tint. Kind of strange but the blue did help negate that somewhat. The rep rubber strap was fantastic. Another fault was the thickness. Wore excellent for a 42mm with stubby lugs but a 20mm band with almost 17+ mm of thickness? It was comically thick. The gen was not much better, maybe 16mm thick, that's it.

With all that said, thanks for indulging my nostalgic review. I thought they were great watches and the blue was great with the titanium. I would be surprised if you were still able to get them anymore as I think they came out in 2015 but you can check with TD's. I know one of the guys I sold one of my to sold it about a year later so who knows if you can hunt those people down and ask to buy them, lol.

 

[k4jun]

Titanium PO was done by the BP and V6F.
BP is closed, GM and OR are successors. GM hasent repped any Omega I think, OR had repped newest models but not the Titanium PO.
Possibly my best advice would be - talk to Andrew/Trusty and see whether he has any BP Titanium's in stock or still can source them.

 

[jcagara08]

I am in the same boat as you are OP, great insight @shinynewbling25!
Yes I had the BP version in the bigger 45mm with an ETA 2824 version but I sold it (yep a chronic flipper)
I also remembered there were two versions, I had the one with the fading bezel (reason I sold it almost immediately back in 2015-2016 eons ago!)
Now I would like to re acquire one in 42mm with a real ceramic bezel, were you able to get one OP @Mightybenster ?
Share some images will you?

 

[Planetdanny]

Bump
Any news ont the ti planet ocean
I am looking for 1 also

 

[jcagara08]

Hey there, I've had two of the BP titanium reps. I had one that I kept pristine and the other which was a beater and well, pretty scratched up. I sold both in 2020 so you can probably find my sales posts for pictures. There are two versions. One is the older or original version that I bought new. Not sure how long it was in production but it didn't have a ceramic bezel. It was a very blue painted over a shiny bezel. It looked great to me. But I think people complained it wasn't ceramic and TD's would even send you a ceramic bezel replacement part and they updated (not necessarily an upgrade to me) the watch to have a ceramic bezel with grey paint for the numbers which could chip or scrape off. The beater watch was the one with the ceramic bezel and only had a small piece of a number come off. I would say it is NOT a problem. The other looked very shiny and blingy which was great for me but I don't know how "liquid metal" looks on gens so it could be very blingy on those as well.

Since we're reviewing... Faults: The AR had a greenish tint. It worked well but was definitely a green tint. Kind of strange but the blue did help negate that somewhat. The rep rubber strap was fantastic. Another fault was the thickness. Wore excellent for a 42mm with stubby lugs but a 20mm band with almost 17+ mm of thickness? It was comically thick. The gen was not much better, maybe 16mm thick, that's it.

With all that said, thanks for indulging my nostalgic review. I thought they were great watches and the blue was great with the titanium. I would be surprised if you were still able to get them anymore as I think they came out in 2015 but you can check with TD's. I know one of the guys I sold one of my to sold it about a year later so who knows if you can hunt those people down and ask to buy them, lol.

Ah yes pretty well said review, I too had the V1 from BP ordered it in Swiss 2836, hated it because it had a broken screw head and I was late to notice that the bezel wasn't ceramic, we got bamboozled with that one! sold it in about a month.

Yes it is still one of my greatest ever, I am also still looking to get a 42mm version but with a real ceramic bezel,

Titanium and blue always look good togther, Omega championed this combo of course!

Good luck OP!