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Amazing watch!
Incredibly pretty looking, great quality, very nice finish. Heavy and shinny stainless steel. All in all is very impressive. I can't believe it's a 100 dollar watch. Movement works great, 3 mins error per week is not bad for this price range. This is the best finish watch I have ever seen in this price. You might have to spend $300 to get a similar watch from Seiko or Citizen.
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Invicta watchs are nice but less refined
I own several Invicta watches as well as other brand watches. The Invicta watches are very high in performance/price ratio. For $100, you can get a mechanical watch with good quality. For $300, you get even a better watch with swiss movement. However, I had some trouble with the crown design of them. The crowns were not polished round enough, so I was very uncomfortable wearing them. I later found a solution. I used clear paint (or clear nail polish) to cover the rough edges of the crown. The $100 Japanese movement is very noisy because of the winding mechanism, so I bought the $300 watch of the same style. The Swiss movement feels better, and the case and the bend are much better. Invicta used very hard steel to make the case and the bend. But all Invicta watches I have are consistently 15-20 seconds faster every day. However, I have a $500 Invicta which is better with 5 seconds faster every day. Most of my Invicta watches have a problem which is the glass. The glass is not clear due to light reflection. So my verdict to the Invicta watches is: for the money, you can not find a better deal, and they will do the job and last a long time. But for me, I prefer something nicer and now I just wear them occationally when I only need to be with something reliable and cheap.
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Like a submariner for the middle class
Let me just get this out of the way: I love this watch.
After several dozen not so subtle hints, my girlfriend bought this for my birthday. It replaces an almost identical model made by Regency that I bought more than ten years ago.
Sure, there are plenty of Rolex-styled diving watches, but there are a couple of notable features that make this timepiece stand out from similar models. Pictures simply don't do it justice.
In person, you'll notice the subtle polish on the center links, and the solid weight and feel of the stainless steel band. The beveled unidirectional bezel adds thickness to the watch's body and depth to the face. The perpetual sweeping second hand gives it the look and feel of a much more expensive timepiece.
The only flaw I can find is that the pendulum in the winding mechanism makes a lot more noise than I would like. Other than that? Nothing. For the price, this watch is almost perfect.
Pros: Automatic winding, sturdy construction and quality finish, impressive looking.
Cons: Noisy pendulum.
Bottom line: Unless you say how much it actually cost, most people - even those with expensive taste - will assume you paid a lot more. And even if you did, it would still be worth it.
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Amazing Design
This Invicta is a winner. The design is amazing. The watch feels like a much more expensive, high-quality timepiece. The Miyota Japanese moment is very acceptable. It may run a little fast after a while, but that's no big deal. I've had the watch for 2 months now, and I have only corrected the time once. The watch is constructed well...I've already smacked on a couple of hard surfaces. The bezel and crown are great...no scratches yet. The band does attract some scratches as some have mentioned, but over all they're not that bad.
This is a fabulous timepiece for the price. You seriously need to just buy it...especially before all the coin-edge bezels run out...I think this watch looks much more beautiful than the clam shell style.
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Looks nice from the outside. Looks aren't everything.
I've owned at least 100 watches in the past 30 years, including a Rolex Submariner and an Omega Seamaster. Most of the rest were all Seiko.
I have owned 3 Invicta watches which were in the same price range (around $75-$100) and they weren't bad watches. They were quartz movement tho.
Here is my review of the 8926C I bought last week.
The pros: The face looks very similar to the Rolex Submariner. The coin bezel edge is a nice touch. It rotates easily and the markings and numbers on the bezel are clean and easily read. Trinite hands and markings glow nice in the dark. You do get a nice 'clicking' sound when you rotate the bezel.
The cons: The bracelet is flimsy and is very light in weight. It feels like you could just bend it in half between your fingers. Very thin and cheap. The fold over clasp doesn't snap in place very well. It feels like it could just pop open at any given moment. It would have been nice if they had given it a heavier, more durable bracelet. This being an automatic movement (21 jewel), if you don't wear it all the time you'll need to wind it, which isn't that big a deal.. BUT when you go to set the time, the second hand does NOT stop. I have owned dozens of jeweled movement watches and have never come across one who's second had did not stop when you pulled the crown out all the way to set the time. I talked to a sales rep at Invicta and this is not a defect. It's the way the watch was designed. There is no way this watch will be very accurate. I'd approximate that it is +/- one minute a day. The see-though case back, in my opinion, is just ridiculous. I feel this is an inexpensive way to build automatic watches these days. Who needs to see the insides? I'd rather have a nice solid case back with maybe a logo on it. But.. what do you want for under $100. The Invicta 8926C is worth maybe $50-$75 or so.
If you only want a wristwatch that looks nice and don't care how durable, accurate and rugged it is, this isn't a bad watch. If you want accuracy and a more rugged watch, this one just doesn't cut it.
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