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.