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    There's ugly, and then there's

    this little selection.

    No words.....

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    Aghhh, my eyes!!!

    I can’t even begin to imagine who might buy one of those. Truly awful!

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    One seen, they cant be unseen!

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    Jeez! Looks like the sort of thing that comes out of a machine you stick a pound in aand twist. (The one next to the stale Minstrels for 20p)


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    Ewwwwwwww

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    OMG, just having my breakfast too.


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    These are actually part of Invictas Reserve line. Not sure what they're offering marries up to what they're saying.

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    Hope you bought one,Ryan .
    Unattractive crap but for the record my eyes are not irreparably damaged, I will have not have trouble forgetting them or have recurring nightmares about them, nor did I regurgitate my meal. I am sure there is a market for these, just that I am not a part of that market.

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    Their extreme shameless vulgarity and happy breaking of even the basic rules of taste almost makes them admirable............you can't say that they are wishy washy about these things!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MrGrumpy View Post
    Their extreme shameless vulgarity and happy breaking of even the basic rules of taste almost makes them admirable............you can't say that they are wishy washy about these things!
    Agreed, the horological equivalent of the Sharknado movies, so bad they're almost good.

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    Can't decide if these are worse than the Leopard Daytona.

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    It isn’t easy to pin down bad taste vs audacity. To me, the Invicta watches are awful but I would love a rainbow Daytona or one of these....


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    They even fake them...




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    Quote Originally Posted by Satori View Post
    It isn’t easy to pin down bad taste vs audacity. To me, the Invicta watches are awful but I would love a rainbow Daytona or one of these....

    A matter of quite fine degrees...The first Invicta pictured looks like what you'd get if a G Shock and this watch had a baby.

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    What fresh hell is this...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanb741 View Post
    this little selection.

    No words.....
    Where can I buy one?

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    Yikes. If they're the reserves one can only wonder what the first team is like..

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    Seems accurate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Satori View Post
    It isn’t easy to pin down bad taste vs audacity. To me, the Invicta watches are awful but I would love a rainbow Daytona or one of these....

    I'm with you. I'd also love one of these. Awesome

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    Quote Originally Posted by Passenger View Post
    Agreed, the horological equivalent of the Sharknado movies, so bad they're almost good.
    My understanding .. i dont take them seriously, i dont have one , but if i did it would be the trashiest most flamboyant one they made

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    Quote Originally Posted by ataripower View Post
    I'm with you. I'd also love one of these. Awesome
    Me too - sadly my funds would only stretch to an Invicta :(

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    Quote Originally Posted by Satori View Post
    It isn’t easy to pin down bad taste vs audacity. To me, the Invicta watches are awful but I would love a rainbow Daytona or one of these....

    It's dreadful, but if I saw one on ebay...

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    Ooh, hark at the craftsmanship......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wimm View Post
    Ooh, hark at the craftsmanship......
    Remarkable really. Also disgusting.

    I almost feel sad that there's a market for such monstrosities.

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    Invicta you say?

    Thought it was a new Royal Oak Offshore for a moment...

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    Just utter tat,don’t think I’ve seen an invicta that I’d wear


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    The last one looks like it might become a Michael Bay Transformer

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    I think I know the answer, but I'm having difficulty deciding whether the first one has a nose or a knob!

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    Hideous, who would actually see that and think ‘yes, I’ll buy one’???

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    Every cruise I’ve been on the onboard shop push Invicta sales at stupid over the top money


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    Quote Originally Posted by Lusty View Post
    Invicta you say?

    Thought it was a new Royal Oak Offshore for a moment...
    Same designer

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    Quote Originally Posted by RogDen View Post
    Every cruise I’ve been on the onboard shop push Invicta sales at stupid over the top money

    Well, a cruise - loads of passengers with nothing to do or so see apart from filling their bellies with food and booze (possibly included in the price of the cruise) - thus mostly pissed all day long, so are the IDEAL Invicta target market!

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    These must be the high demand models. I bet walletfinder have scooped them all up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Satori View Post
    It isn’t easy to pin down bad taste vs audacity. To me, the Invicta watches are awful but I would love a rainbow Daytona or one of these....

    I'd happily wear that because it would make ME smile every time I looked at it. The Invicta watches seem to be designed for other people to look at, but I can't imagine the actual response from most sane people would be what the wearer was hoping for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Satori View Post
    It isn’t easy to pin down bad taste vs audacity. To me, the Invicta watches are awful but I would love a rainbow Daytona or one of these....

    So am I the only person on the forum who dislikes this ghastly lump of horrorology?

    At least the Invicta version makes no pretensions to high design nor horology, and has the decency to be as cheap as it looks...

    The Konstantin Chaykin reeks of tryhard...

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    Horrific. The date windows ruin the bottom two.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hhhh View Post
    Horrific. The date windows ruin the bottom two.
    For me it's the inexplicable decision to have the hand on the day subdial a different size to the others. It just makes the watches so unbalanced. It can only be a conscious decision to do that... why???
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    Quote Originally Posted by earlofsodbury View Post
    So am I the only person on the forum who dislikes this ghastly lump of horrorology?

    At least the Invicta version makes no pretensions to high design nor horology, and has the decency to be as cheap as it looks...

    The Konstantin Chaykin reeks of tryhard...
    I too find it caricaturish. I would find it hard to spend money on that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by earlofsodbury View Post
    So am I the only person on the forum who dislikes this ghastly lump of horrorology?

    At least the Invicta version makes no pretensions to high design nor horology, and has the decency to be as cheap as it looks...

    The Konstantin Chaykin reeks of tryhard...
    I would need to see one at different times as the eyes are OK-ish in the pic but at 7:20? Not so sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by earlofsodbury View Post
    So am I the only person on the forum who dislikes this ghastly lump of horrorology?

    At least the Invicta version makes no pretensions to high design nor horology, and has the decency to be as cheap as it looks...

    The Konstantin Chaykin reeks of tryhard...
    I think it’s fun but I accept that it’s an expensive novelty watch.

    In a parallel universe where I had that loads of cash, I might get one. As it is, I would have to make do with a colourful F91W.

    Which reminds me, those invictas are not miles away from some G-Shocks (controversial opinion?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by earlofsodbury View Post
    So am I the only person on the forum who dislikes this ghastly lump of horrorology?

    At least the Invicta version makes no pretensions to high design nor horology, and has the decency to be as cheap as it looks...

    The Konstantin Chaykin reeks of tryhard...
    I absolutely hate it, the price even more so

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Kenney View Post
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    Wow that is the most disgusting watch I have ever seen


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    Quote Originally Posted by earlofsodbury View Post
    So am I the only person on the forum who dislikes this ghastly lump of horrorology?
    I can appreciate the design but it's really creepy which I suppose is the point given that it's a Stephen King tribute. I couldn't wear it.

    in a garish kind of would I wear it just for a laugh, I actually quite like the Invicta Joker watch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Idontgram View Post
    Which reminds me, those invictas are not miles away from some G-Shocks (controversial opinion?)
    I rather like some of the louder "statement" watches that are out there, but it's not a look, for me, which sits well with high prices, and both the Invictas and G-Shocks have certainly climbed in price over the last few years.

    I do at least own a G-Shock, albeit a "Casioak" in an extremely restrained colour palette!

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    Apparently you can wear it either way up...


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    Quote Originally Posted by James.uk View Post

    Apparently you can wear it either way up...


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    WTF?? How can they make that claim, the hands won't align at all!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Papa Hotel View Post
    WTF?? How can they make that claim, the hands won't align at all!
    Photoshop...

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