Product Description:
Product Details:
- Japanese Quartz movement
- Flame-fusion crystal; Brushed and polished 18k rose gold-plated stainless steel case; Black leather strap
- Chronograph functions with 60 second, 60 minute and 24 hour white subdials; Date function
- Black dial with rose gold tone hands, white hour markers and arabic numerals; Luminous; 18k rose gold-plated stainless steel coin edge bezel
- Water-resistant to 100 M (330 feet)
Customer Reviews:
From Case To Wrist, the Invicta is Not Subtle on its Extravagance By Canis Majoris
It is not necessarily good to talk about price in a review unless spending an amount that overlaps the quality is present. As of right now this Invicta watch is under 100$ and 'says' it retails for 575$. Any company can represent their product with any number, though; if you are not careful that 575$ MSRP will make you think you are getting a 575$ watch. The Invicta comes close, I will say. At the present price of sub-100$, and if you like the look, this is a must buy. Not only does this watch feel that it was crafted with quality--which is rare I find now-a-days--it manages to strut its way into the fashion category while also being able to run into sports functionality.
Starting with the craftmanship--though I cannot tell you how well the inside is made because frankly, my hands are too big to be prying under the carriage here--the watch is on the heavy side with a very solid Stainless Steel plate (in my case, Gold Plated)***Stainless Steel is prone to turn darker if not cleaned a few times annually***. Also, there are many varieties with this particular watch: Gold, Black, Silver Plate and White or Black Dials so that you are not stuck with mine.
Under the specifications listed on Amazon's webpage it says that the band is Leather, Synthetic but on the watch band itself it reads 'Genuine Leather'. Furthermore, the feeling on the band does feel and look like Gin-You-Ine leather. The watch does take the current trend of oversized watch with this one being a bigger than average wrist watch. To give you an idea of the size, the diameter of the dial is 1 3/4 inch across or 4.5 centimeters. I have seen very large so that it is just obnoxious, and pleasantly aggrandized. The Invicta falls in with the latter. Do not be too timid if you are worrying about the size. It's not that bad.
***The band is black with fairly thick, white stitching vertically down the 2 straps, and a few of my stitches looked marked with a black color such that they looked a little dirty. Probably just mine.***
This is a Chronograph watch. That means this has the usual moving Minute, Hour, and Second (Step Elapse, not Smooth--Like the Rolex) hands while also showing the Date: DD, and containing 3 subdials:
1 and 2: Function as a stopwatch with 1 showing the minutes passed, and 2 showing seconds passed. These can be started and stopped with a side button and reset with one button as well.
3: shows the proper hour as corresponding to the time of day e.g. a.m. or p.m. represented in a 24-hr format. For example, it is 9 o clock on the watch, but is it a.m. or p.m.? The Subdial hand will either be on the 21-hr mark to represent p.m. or 9-hr mark to show a.m.
The actual typeface of the numbers on the watch are what I would describe as being more adolescent, modern, and young than eloquent and traditional. Keep this mind if you are older and used to a certain low key, and classic number type on your dials.
With the Invicta Chronograph, there is little to not be impressed by. For the price, you are getting quality. For the look you are getting a perfectly depicted modern timepiece--one that is loud, but reserved, and cocky enough to be unabashed without being repugnant. If this was not enough, how about a watch that you can wear with a two-button suit or a wetsuit without worrying about it dulling the look of formal wear or putting too much polish on the blue collar; Yes...it has versatility too.Good but not great, there are better options available for the price By Charlie
Invicta model 1429
I've been curious about Invicta watches for several years, and have purchased Fossil and Casio G-Shock in the past without any problems. I decided to give this Invicta a try, just to get an idea of the quality and workmanship. To make a long story short, the actual street price of the Invicta is too high for the actual quality and workmanship. You're better off buying Fossil or Seiko for the price because they have much better quality.
Let's start from the beginning. The Invicta 1429 is an analog Chronograph watch, where you can set the date and time. There is a smaller gauge that tells the 24-hour time (to distinguish PM from AM). The remaining 2 gauges are used to indicate Chronograph seconds (0-60) and minutes (0-60). The main watch is your standard 3-hand setup for second, minute, and hour. While the watch itself looks good from afar, up close the back of the watch and the face look/feel cheap. The chronograph hands don't line up with the indicated tick marks. There are no tick marks for the main clock so I can't tell if they line up. The watch band is made of very stiff leather and seemed like an afterthought when they fitted it to the watch. The notches aren't cut all the way, so if you have smaller wrists the watch is too big. The chronograph buttons aren't tactile, so I had no idea if the stop watch was active.
The instruction manual was useless for this model. After flipping through it, I eventually stumbled across a folded insert marked "Operation VD 53 B" which had the actual instructions for this configuration of watch. The 1429 arrived with the chronograph not zeroed properly, so I had to recalibrate the hands. The MSRP tag was a joke, as it exhibited a cost about 10-20 times what the actual value of the watch should cost.
The positive aspect is that the watch could pass as something expensive or classy, but the level of quality isn't there. It made my Fossil watch look like a much more expensive precision watch, and the watch aficionados consider Fossil to be cheap mall watches. The glow-in-the-dark inserts on the watch glows a subdued white-blue color, which is actually kind of cool compared to the boring green that most watches use to simulate mil-spec tritium "diver" watches.
Overall: 3/5 stars, the chronograph hands don't match up to their tick marks and seems to change with every revolution, it arrived out of the box with the hands not calibrated/zeroed properly, and the watch band isn't very good.FAKE By Jsalguera77
DO NOT BUY INVICTA MEN's 1429 II COLLECTION CHRONOGRAPH BLACK DIAL LEATHER WATCH. It is FAKE. The Model No. is in the wrong spot behind the watch. Also, under where it says Invicta it is supposed to have the meters. Mine doesn't. I noticed these details and did some research and this watch is FAKE. It looks good watch and people might not notice but as long as you don't mind that it is not real.
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