Invicta Subaqua Scuba 0905 Gives a Lot of Wow and Comfort

I wore my Invicta Subaqua Scuba to work yesterday and was very pleased with the comfort and the way it keeps singing to me on my wrist. This is a keeper. It's manly and sporty without gold and diamonds. The watch is very thick to the point you can't wear it under cuffs. Short-sleeves only. 

I should add I'm tempted to buy its Scuba cousin the Invicta 0912, but monthly expenses for my twins of $750 for pre-school and diapers have put me in selling mode, not buying. 

Comments

[Angelo]

I love the black/white/silver/orange. It's hard to miss with that color combination. Some watches get attention the bad way---people rolling their eyes. That watch---I'm sure gets the good type of attention----I know I'd want a closer look.

[Joel R]

I've been kind of the same down sizing path that you seem to be on. With watch size so many people seem to be concerned with case width, but I am finding that what matters to me is thickness. My size range is 45-50mm but I gravitate much more to thinner is better. I much prefer 50mm at 14mm than 48mm at 18mm. The larger thinner just seems to where smaller on my wrist then smaller thicker.

Joel.

[herculodge]

My officemate, who happens to be in the Hall of Fame for wrestling, usually disdains my Invictas, wearing his same Seiko for 20 years, but he covets my Scuba and I should add I get more positive comments with my Scuba than any watch I own.

[jonnybardo]

I like the Scuba but it is just too big for me. I have a handful of watches that size (4 SAS, 2 Leviathans, a Venom), but I'm going to get rid of two or three. If they made the Scuba a bit smaller - say, 50mm x 18mm - I'd consider getting one.

By the way Jeff, have you checked out the Invicta site recently? They've totally re-done the catalog and it looks like there are a ton of new watches up, or at least stuff I haven't seen before. Unfortunately they don't have a Subaqua Specialty Reserve section, but if you look in the Subaqua section (which includes over 500 watches) and go to page 17, there are a bunch of really nice looking Scubas and SAS I've never seen before. Check out this one:

http://www.invictawathttp://www.invictawatch.com/collections/view-model/12346-subaqua

I look forward to seeing a real picture of these.

[herculodge]

Johnny, I saw the site yesterday. The amount of watches they have is amazing. It feels good to be content with my collection for now. It also feels good to have gotten my collection down to a manageable size. I hope I can stay in this zone.

[jonnybardo]

"Manageable" is a relative term. For you it might be less than 40; for me it is probably about two dozen. I saw some guy on Watchgeeks say that he had bought about a hundred watches on the Sunday Run over the last year (I can't remember the exactly number - it might have been more or a bit less, but it was a lot). I don't know, if I had more income I'd probably buy more watches, but at a certain point too many watches isn't a good thing. I'd probably translate those extra dollars into more expensive watches (right now as I type this, there's a Nordstrom ad to the right of the text field with an alluring Tag Heuer Aquaracer).

[herculodge]

There are some people I know, such as my officemate, who only wear one watch and they love that watch. I envy those people. And I envy people who don't own a watch and are buying their first and experiencing the magic of owning it.

[jonnybardo]

We're all products of our consumer-based culture, taught from an early age to not fully appreciate what we have and always want more. I'm dealing with this right now with my younger daughter who just turned 4; she is learning the very American way of opening presents: looking for the next present right after the first one is opened. I remember just a year ago she would take her time with each present, then we'd have to show her the next one.

This is something I feel strongly that I'd like to change so that when they're older, they won't have been taught year after year, present after present, to not appreciate the magic and wonder of simply being alive, whether that is a sunset or opening up an unknown gift.

More is not better - this is the lie that we Americans buy into. Even in the domain of watches: Would you rather have a handful of watches that you really love, or half a hundred that you barely notice, most of which you don't wear? (I'm using the general "you," not the personal--or accustatory!--"you").

I'm not a puritan (far from it!) or a luddite, but I am starting to become more of a minimalist. There are areas that I might always have an excess of something - I have thousands of books, a couple dozen watches, tons of music, and I love to cook rich (albeit vegetarian) foods and drink craft beer, but I look around at my house and see so much that I don't really need.

My wife and I are planning on moving back out to the west coast, either this coming summer or the year after, and we're thinking of cutting our possessions by a significant amount. Even my sacred books, all three or four thousand that I've lugged around for years now. Most of them are just shelf decoration.

I don't feel any dread with this proposition - actually, it feels liberating, an opportunity to let go of stuff and find out what really matters. This works on all levels, from watches to books, to memories and psychological hang-ups.

But I've digressed!!! What were we talking about, Subaqua Scubas?