Invicta is one of the most sought after luxury brands.

"Shazam!" And everyone instantly has an Invicta on their wrist and a cool beer drinking dance party breaks out. Could be a commercial... or on HSN/QVC...

I bought an Invicta 10 or so years ago. It died, so bought to the exact same model to replace it. It died. So I bought this one. Since the two previous Invicta were quartz, I figured better to go with a mechanical Invicta. In case you were wondering, it's not solid gold.

Shaq will endorse a dog turd for the money, he's just another endorsement whore without any credibility. He's earned it though.

Sort of like the famous or infamous Goldfinger double entendre.

Bought mine a couple of years ago (used) and it's been brilliant, swimming with it, done everything with it!
Looks good and keeps excellent time, well under a second a day and was a bargain - what's not to like?

Alan

Haters gotta hate, and Invicta's product line is certainly large enough and diverse enough to provide just about everyone with something to hate, but Invicta does make some decent dive watches, IMHO.....and at price points that should give rational minds pause when considering purchasing a dive watch from a more "status" conscious brand.

The attached watch is an Invicta Pro Diver ref. 9937 I bought nearly twenty years ago. It has a depth rating of 200m, a 40mm solid stainless steel case with drilled lugs, screw-in "spring bars", sapphire crystals front and back, a bracelet with solid links, including the end links, and it is powered by an ETA twenty-five jewels 2824-2 automatic movement. This is the same movement found in: Hamilton Khakis and Jazzmasters; Eterna Kontikis; Tudor Heritage Black Bays; Laco Pilots and Squads; Sinn Pilots and Diving Watches; Stowa Fliegers; numerous Certina DS models; numerous Tissot models such as Seastars; numerous Rado models like the Golden Horse; and Longines Legend Divers, among many, many other watches costing hundreds more.

I am not easy on my tool watches, and my Invicta 9937 has provided flawless performance without ever being serviced. It has outlasted many other tool watches I have owned, providing accurate timing long after my Seiko Pogue started making noises like a baby's rattle and others were tossed in the dustbin. After more than sixteen years of faithful service I treated my 9937 to a new ceramic bezel, and it looks nearly as good as the day I first bought it....and runs just accurately, which is very accurately.

I often hear people say that Invictas are "disposable" watches. Considering the typical sale price (not the MSRP) for an Invicta, that's a fair statement. With respect to Invicta's Pro Diver and Grand Diver models, however, my experience has been that they are bulletproof tool watches that just refuse to die. I have three sons ages 18-23. I bought each of them new Pro Divers for well under $100 each when they were 12-13 years old, and they are still keeping great time, despite my sons being harder on watches than I am. They have each broken numerous bones and totaled a car or two, but have yet to break their Invictas.

Without doubt Invicta makes models capable of challenging the aesthetic sensibilities of even the most sainted individuals with the poorest of eyesight, however, I would encourage readers to search "ugliest watches" before casting stones with bravado. Having to mortgage your house to buy a luxury watch is no guarantee of buying "taste". I doubt there is a luxury watchmaker that hasn't made a model or two or three that wouldn't illicit a "what were they thinking" response from the average person, or "I've got to have one!" response from the collector with one hundred Invictas -- I'm looking at you Rolex fan boys. Stop giggling Omega fan boys, in any realm other than the Marianas Trench your Ploprof is mistaken for an Invicta by all but a small group of watch collectors.

Anyways, the heart wants what the heart wants....there is no accounting for taste. However, my experience is that Invicta makes bullet proof, hard to kill, dive watches at very competitive price points. Now, bring the hate....and the love! Cheers! And have a great weekend, all!!

My latest Invicta, wanted an all Titanium and eventually I found this one, the model is no longer in production so I am counting myself lucky.
The ubiquitous NH35A SII inside and 46 mm diameter model 0420.
Could do with some finessing such as new glass and ceramic bezel but it was bought as a beater though I must admit I quite enjoy wearing it as my everyday work watch.

Invicta sub homage got me into watches so I don’t hate them. I wore it at school daily when I was 15-16 and it was great for swimming also.

Pretty sure it had a fairly decent Seiko movement in it so a bargain for £70.

I stumbled across this tonight and just had to post it somewhere. I cannot imagine the person who would actually wear this 55mm watch. This is like Scarface meets Barney the Purple Dinosaur meets Liberace.

They need to change “Swiss” for “Bowel”.

By the way, there’s a separate thread where we collect ugly watches: https://omegaforums.net/threads/the-ugliest-watch-ever-made-thread.108956/

ahahahah great post!

Invicta seems to suffer from a bipolar disorder, it makes great sensible mechanical dive watches then seems to spin out of control and vomit up this stuff. I am not a hater but to quote a minions film " it's not me it's definitely you"

I know I've posted in it before but on mobile it was a bit harder to find.

Honestly their mechanical diver/sub clones are absolutely the biggest bang for buck watches out there, and I wish they wouldn't spend the money to CNC every single case with INVICTA on the side. Has to be one of the few examples where spending more money makes the end item worth less. I picked up one of the old Miyota powered ones at a thrift store more than a decade ago for $10. It's was already beat up, but the movement is perfectly accurate and it just works. The would absolutely be the best platform for modding out there if they didn't have that damn engraving on them.

Superb… I’ve owned and still own some awesome pieces, 30t2, a birth year Zenith running a 3019phc and more AND some fugly pieces with no horological value and an aesthetic that would compel a fundamentalist Christian to self pleasure ad nauseam in search of the eventual ocular relief promised. I don’t and haven’t owned an Invicta but all power to those of you who do!
And for those who want pile hate onto Invicta, I say ‘stop it, or you’ll go blind’

Can imagine the marketing meeting … ‘ok, so what’s the target market, anyone attending a super spreader event while still bemoaning the legitimacy of the last US election result? Mmm, we could shift quite a few units!’