The Invicta 1906 is, first of all, a big watch.  It's good and weighty, hefty if you will, and has drawn several comments about its size and how it can be read by coworkers easily from across the meeting table.  The numbers are big, the bezel is big and brilliantly brassy; very shiny and handsome.  It's very warm-looking for a prominently brown watch, and if you happen to be someone into fashion and matching accessories (which I'm really not), then this watch will go well with your "earth tones."  Heh heh.  My wife and friends will laugh at that last line, but it's true!

The band is a very heavy duty, thick-as-a-hand-eraser plastic that is quite rigid through flexible enough to do what it needs to do.  I personally don't like the band because I think it cheapens what turly is an elegant, though a mite bawdy white-numbered watchface.  I wonder how difficult it would be to refit the watch with a good leather band because I think the watch is deserving of something that matches more appropriately.

The one thing I really don't like about the watch is the absence of a date window.  It has a second hand, and hour hand, and a minute hand, and that's it.  This watch is big, and a window hand could fit in there very easily, but no such luck.

Lastly, it is absolutely silent; there's no ticking watch here!

In short, I really do like this watch a lot even with the lack of a date window and with the toy-grade, hard rubber watchband.  It is a sharp timepiece which announces itself loudly but with class.

***One more thing***  If you buy this watch, I'm curious to find out if the same thing happens to you... when I opened the box, I was overwhelmed (literally; I did a cartoonish "BOING" face) with the smell of, well, lemon-fresh pledge.  Please comment if the same thing happens to you.  After wearing the watch for weeks, I can still smell the lemony scent on the band.  It's odd.