Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16494 in Watches
• Brand: Invicta
• Model: INVICTA-9816
• Dimensions: .0" h x 1.54" w x 1.97" l,
• Band material: stainless-steel
• Bezel material: leather
• Case material: stainless-steel
• Clasp type: Buckle
• Dial color: black
• Dial window material: Mineral
• Movement type: swiss-quartz
• Water-resistant to 330 feet

Features

• Precise Swiss-Quartz movement
• Mineral crystal
• Case diameter: 40 mm
• Stainless-steel case; Black dial; Date function; Chronograph functions
• Water-resistant to 330 feet (100 M)

Amazon.com Product Description
Boldly modern with a playful watch face, the Invicta Lupah stainless steel men's chronograph watch (model 9816) offers a perfect accessory match to today's contemporary casual dress. This precise Swiss-made chronograph timepiece has a rectangular, brightly polished silver stainless steel case that measures 46mm wide (1.81 inches), and it features a globule mineral crystal as well as large, globule chronograph pushers. The three chronograph subdials can measure events to within 1/60 of a second and up to 30 minutes of elapsed time, and it features start, stop, and reset functions.

Lupah Collection

Invicta's Lupah continues to brazenly hit the streets defying the myth of urban trends. Always offering the original signature stylings for which the patented Lupah is known, Invicta has also diversified the line to encompass a varied range of choices and models. While Swiss movements keep this watch in motion, the collection is further accented by a wide selection of colorful straps and dial treatments. It's distinctive look and smarts will keep Lupah in tune with any mood of any moment in any time.

Invicta Brand

With its most inspired creations yet, Invicta demonstrates its technical and design prowess, offering timepieces of style for extreme value. "We have long held firm to the belief that supremely crafted timepieces can be offered for extremely modest sums. It is the founding principle of our flagship and the radical notion that still drives us today. By being true to our convictions, we will continue to turn the balance of power, and deliver true Swiss luxury to anyone who desires it. Let all those who possess our timepieces and pass through our doors witness the quality, value and care in every piece we create, and the spirit of neverending possibilities in everything we do." These are the words that greet visitors and motivate team members inside the Invicta Watch Group's new worldwide headquarters. Emblazoned in stainless steel, it has been the Invicta message since Day One.

With each new timepiece, the company sends up a flare for those looking to be defined not by how much they spend, but how wisely they spend. With its strong collections, the gutsy Swiss brand is guaranteed to keep attracting followers. The art of the craft. Inside an Invicta Workshop It takes years of training and a great deal of pride to achieve glorius Swiss timepieces by hand. But it takes guts and the courage of your convictions to make those timepieces affordable for everyone who appreciates them. At our Swiss workshops, we mix time-honored traditions with a little bit of horse sense every single day to produce the greatest values in the watch-making world.

Customer Reviews

So far, so good.
I purchased this watch from Amazon a little over a week ago, and so far it stays in time with internet time, to the second as far as I can tell. It is attractive, though I bought it with the yellow band only because Amazon offered a deal (which enabled me to get it for around $65, which includes sales tax which I have to pay because I'm in one of the few states where Amazon is required to charge sales tax).

I have already bought and received a black Invicta Lorica watch band for this watch (from Jomashop, who has a shop on Amazon), and I have ordered but not yet received a red Invicta Lorica band (from another dealer who has a shop on Amazon). This way I can change bands as desired, and I thank Jnanda for his review, which inspired me to purchase this watch with extra bands.

As Jnanda mentions, Invicta Lorica bands have a quick release feature, but for whatever reason the black band I purchased does not have this feature, and I can only hope that the red band I purchased but have yet to receive will have it. (I wrote to Jomashop asking why the black band lacks this feature, e.g., is it an older version, and I will update this review if and when I get a reply.) Bands can be changed even if they do not have the quick release feature, but that feature makes it much easier.

I applied for Invicta's free upgrade to a five-year warranty and they say it takes a few weeks for that to be processed. I also emailed Invicta to ask if having the battery changed by a local jeweler voids the warranty, and that was a week ago and I have yet to receive a reply. Needless to say, this does not inspire faith in Invicta's customer service, but given what I paid for this watch I'm not all that concerned.

As long as the watch continues to work as it's been working, it is a darn nice looking watch. With a black band I can wear it with dress clothes, with the red and yellow bands I can wear it with casual wear, though the yellow band is obviously not going to go well with everything (but looks great with a bright yellow sweatshirt that I have).

As for the chronograph features, they work as they are supposed to but I haven't had a practical use for them yet.

Amazon's price for this watch as I write this is $81 and change. That's a deal and I am almost tempted to buy a second one so that I can have two with different colored bands on them, but I'm not going to risk having a problem with one (or both) of them, and I don't want to have yet another watch laying around draining a battery. I've had Pulsars that cost more than what I paid for this watch--they cost over $100 each--and neither looked anywhere as nice as this watch. If I did not already own this watch, I would snap it up at the current price, and I would buy at least one extra band so that I would have the option of not wearing a watch with a bright yellow band. But before buying an extra band I would contact the seller to make sure that the Invicta Lorica band I'm buying has the quick release feature that the yellow band this watch comes with has.

Certainly a nice "fashion statement" and I started getting positive comments on the watch on the first day I wore it. The "globule" mineral crystal magnifies the watch face, and that's helpful for me given that I wear reading glasses and can't see smaller or unmagnified watch faces that easily. The hour and minute hands glow in the dark and are large enough that I can tell the time at a glance without reading glasses.

If my Invicta continues to work without problems, I may purchase an Invicta "Baby Lupah" for my daughter for Christmas or for her birthday in January. They are nice-looking watches and the box mine came in and that I assume all Invicta watches come in is an art object. But I'll make sure I get one at a good price rather than at an inflated price. (Invicta's recommended retail price for this watch is $395, or at least that's the price on the tag that Invicta had attached to the watch when I received it. Most retailers on the web price it at somewhere between $100 and $160 or so. I would love to find out what the wholesale cost of these watches are. When operating a bookstore in the nineties where I also sold some jewelry, I learned something from a wholesale jewerly saleswoman that really surprised me. She asked me why I priced the jewelry so low. I thought she would be glad that I did, because I thought that the lower the price, the more you sell. She explained to me that most women who buy jewelry for themselves will see a pair of earrings for $20 and think, "I'm worth more than that," but may be drawn to the exact same earrings if the retail price is closer to $50--I'm talking nineties prices; today the prices would be higher. And she said that the same logic applies when someone is buying jewelry as a gift for someone else; they come in with a predetermined idea of how much they are going to spend. I told her that I usually doubled the wholesale price to come up with a retail price. She said to mark jewelry up at least four times and to put less on display at a time so that each item with a higher price tag will really stand out. I somewhat reluctantly took her advice--reluctantly because it was counter-intuitive to me and I was afraid that the higher jewelry prices might alienate customers--but it turned out that she was right. My profits from jewelry sales increased exponentially. So caveat emptor!)

Update: Because I titled my review "So far, so good," I figure I should provide an update. It is now January 18, 2009; the above review by me was posted August 30, 2008. I am happy to report that I've had no problems with the watch whatsoever. I don't bother to try to set analog watches to the second against computer time, but - I'm checking right now - the Lupah continues to be accurate to the minute, and I only set it once when I got it. (I have three older watches, an analog quartz Pulsar, a quartz Seiko that has an analog and a digital display, and a digital Timex, and they all gain or lose minutes within a couple of months of being set.) I continue to receive compliments on the Lupah, and just recently (right before Christmas '08) I purchased a second Invicta watch from Amazon, that being the Pro Diver Men's Stainless Steel Watch #5249. So far it is as accurate as the Lupah, and I received my "free" warranty upgrade card just a couple of weeks after applying for it by mail. I promise to write another update if I have any problems with the Lupah.

Nice!!!! For the price!!!
This watch is very nice. Especially for the price. The quality seems very good. The band material takes a little getting use to. The band has a neat quick release function that make changing it easy. I would recommend this watch.

A good watch and a good deal
Bought two of these a few weeks ago for about 60.00 delivered. One was a present for my brother and I kept the 2nd one. I don't mind the yellow band on occasion. But I needed a black band for every day. The Lorica OEM band felt cheezy to me. I found a great 24mm black leather band for about 10 bucks on ebay. Gotta say the black band really makes this piece pretty.
That said I wouldn't consider this watch at over a hundred dollars. Quartz watches are basically all the same, you are buying fashion at this price point. Overall happy with this watch so far.