Fully Restore MBA-2012

Mac Experts,
I have a question if you could help answer ...
Assuming my 256GB SSD totally fails and I get a replacement from Apple, I presume it's empty. My MBA don't come with any CD/USB.
I have a proper backup(s) using Time Machine and have tried to restore it before so it's a good backup - okay, I'm happy.
But since it's a replacement SSD, will the "recovery CMD-R during boot" still work as in the recovery partition so that I can connect to Apple to download OS X, then go through the motion of restoring from Time Machine?
Thanks

http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/
Solved it already.
Cheers

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