Trulesorub.com is a website that sells movements mated to cases and dials/hands.
I thought, the prices are ok, let's try one.
So, his US address and phone are there for marketing. All his work and shipping are done from the Ukraine. The tracked shipping is registered, so it "tracks" until landing on the domestic postal system then vanishes until reappearing in your mailbox.
The first one, above, runs ok, faded but decent lume. The case and crown are very slippery but look pretty good.
So, overall, happy.
The SECOND one, I could not resist. A sputnik 24 hr showing you a white background for the 12 hours of day.
Arrival took about the same. Now, Aleksey claims he services each movement. The first watch works ok. The second watch
The hour wheel sticks and skips
The mainspring winds 12 turns. I have heard of cutting the mainspring to simulate proper tension and guess this is it.
The hour hand lines up with the hour when the minute hand is at 6, not 12.
I got the back off
The thing has dirt in it
It is dry.
I wrote him an email saying, looks like nobody has ever seen the inside of this movement.
He wrote back and insisted he serviced it and send it back. To Ukraine. At my expense.
I wrote back and politely declined his generous offer to do what he should have done in the first place and promised I would not put a negative review on his site.
Never said I would not do it here.
Can't recommend him.
-J
