Invicta Men's 0076 Pro Diver Collection Chronograph Black Ion-Plated Stainless Steel Watch
Positive Review:
Negative Review:
This is a watch that looks great and looks like it's built great, but it
weighs about a pound and is extremely bulky. I'm guessing that since
it's a diver's watch that the weight wouldn't matter so much in the
water but for everyday wear I think it would leave your arm sore and hit
a lot of things.
Let me take a second to explain... before fancy gauges, and dive computers... people used dive watches.
You'd turn the 0 on the bezel to the minute hand and could (based on air, depth and consumption rate, etc) fairly accurately estimate the remaining air for their dive.
Most Modern divers still use this method as an extra redundancy if a tank gauge fails while at depth.
That having been said, divers need to make damned sure their watch is actually rated for the depth they are descending to.
While learning to scuba, I noticed that my OLD INVICTA divers watch had developed moisture on the inside of the bezel.
In a short time the watch stopped working completely. No biggie, it was a $50 watch, so I pitched it and bought this one.
I bought this watch and on my first dive while wearing it, (a dive to 120' in the Caribbean) the inside WAS FLOODED upon surfacing.
Watch filled with salt water = ruined!
Invicta sells their watches by posting ridiculous "retail" prices and then discounting them to what they are actually worth.
I gave this watch 2 stars because it looks cool, feels solid, etc... But if you are actually diving with this dive watch, expect it to die on you quickly.
If you are on a budget as I am and are actually needing a dive watch for diving.... look at what Timex has to offer.
Their watches last forever and will actually survive being submerged to the depth they are rated for.