Have any of your Invicta watches broken?

Are Invicta watches as bad as people say? I love a couple of their watches (literally only a couple out of hundreds), and I'm wondering how bad they can possibly be. I don't want to buy one if it'll be dead in a few months.
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I'm too new to the Invicta game to talk about breakage.  But I have 13, all Grand Divers and one Pro Diver.   The other models...I cannot vouch for.

But if you go by my purchase history, it's clear I'm not concerned about their diver lines. 😉

But really, it's not like a Rolex breaking, where the repair would be expensive.  These are just Invictas.  Cheaper to just get a new one than to repair it, depending on what broke, of course.  The movements are solid.

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Won't buy one. Shady business practices, spotty QC, poor CS, gaudy design, BS MSRPs, fake claims of owning "watch factories," called out by the Swiss Federation for fake Swiss Made claims. 
 

I could go on and on. 
 

The people on the TV hawking that crap are NOT your friends. These are not "quality timepieces," nor are they luxury goods. 
 

They are $30 watches made in Chinese sweatshops that people laugh at you for wearing when you walk away. Respectable folks feel sorry for you for buying into the TeeVee BS, at best. 
 

That is all. 

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biglove

Won't buy one. Shady business practices, spotty QC, poor CS, gaudy design, BS MSRPs, fake claims of owning "watch factories," called out by the Swiss Federation for fake Swiss Made claims. 
 

I could go on and on. 
 

The people on the TV hawking that crap are NOT your friends. These are not "quality timepieces," nor are they luxury goods. 
 

They are $30 watches made in Chinese sweatshops that people laugh at you for wearing when you walk away. Respectable folks feel sorry for you for buying into the TeeVee BS, at best. 
 

That is all. 

Thanks for your informed reply.  Have a great evening, my brother.  👍

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I've had a quartz one for about 7 years. 

It still keeps time, but I've cracked the crystal and the chronograph doesn't reset properly, but that's because I wore it while doing a lot of manual labor. 

If you're not doing that, it should be about as good as any other quartz. 

Side note: my wife can wear quartz pieces & they die after a few days or weeks, even with new batteries. Maybe the people that reported them dying are similar. 

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biglove

Won't buy one. Shady business practices, spotty QC, poor CS, gaudy design, BS MSRPs, fake claims of owning "watch factories," called out by the Swiss Federation for fake Swiss Made claims. 
 

I could go on and on. 
 

The people on the TV hawking that crap are NOT your friends. These are not "quality timepieces," nor are they luxury goods. 
 

They are $30 watches made in Chinese sweatshops that people laugh at you for wearing when you walk away. Respectable folks feel sorry for you for buying into the TeeVee BS, at best. 
 

That is all. 

For anyone who is concerned about the "sweatshops" thing, I did some digging, and I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77MoU8KHW3A&t=45s

That's supposedly actual footage of the Invicta watch dial factory in China.  To call that a "sweatshop" seems unfair.  IMO, the term "sweatshop" is a holdover term from decades past that alludes to child labor and poor working conditions.  These are all adults, working calmly, sitting in front of fans.  If there is other footage out there, I truly want to see it.  I'm not posting to be right.  I want to know the truth.

I find it funny that if that exact same footage had come from my country, we would consider those watches "hand crafted."  Put the exact same bench tools in the hands of people in another country, and we're often quick to label them with disparaging names in the hopes of discrediting their work.  Are they all master craftsmen?  Doubtful.  That's why their watches are $40.  That footage doesn't quite tug at my heartstrings, as if I'm supporting the oppression of lower class people quite like the term "sweatshop" does.  

Interesting to know that the dials are all hand-painted and pressed, IMO.

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I have 5 at this point. If I could find a vintage 1970 Invicta surfboard chronograph I would be head over heels. Breitling was first, Invicta second and Bulova was third to make the surfboard style chronographs.

They make some fun watches that I don't mind wearing a bit. I wear them all the time and I've never had a single problem

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