Alpine Mountaineer Grand Combin GC-SBBRC Casual Men's watch Solid Case

This is a very nice watch with a lovely face. It's a lightish shade of blue when you look at it square on but appears much darker when tilted a little. The subdials and hands are silver (apart from the red chronograph minute hand) which gives it a nice shiny metallic look.The big hands are hollow for most of their length (which you can see form the pictures) with a little bit of luminous paint at the tips. This looks great during the day but unfortunately doesn't work so well in darkness. The large hours dots make it very difficult to see where the minute hand is and the hour hand's marking is so small that it can be difficult to find among all the other glowing bits. I have quite given up trying to read the time from it in the dark.The chronograph wasn't zeroed when I got it but it was easy enough to adjust. Just pull out the crown and use the buttons to move the second hand forward or back one second. The minute hand cannot be adjusted independently but by holding down both buttons the second hand will rapidly zoom forward meaning it doesn't take too long to get the minute hand back to zero and you only have to do it once, so no biggy.The chronograph registers up to 29 mins and 59 secs both on subdials. The minute hand moves slowly, it doesn't jump a minute at a time like some chrongraphs. Both dials are easy to read. After timing, the hands reset by fast-forwarding with the second hand whizzing round a full revolution every second. My 3-year-old son loves pressing the button and watching it zooming round.The bracelet is alternating brushed and polished steel. There are only two micro adjustment points so it may not fit absolutely perfectly. It is fine for anyone with very slim wrists. If you removed all the links it would probably fit a small child. The clasp is a single fold-over construction and has no safety catch contrary to what is stated in the description. It simply pushes onto a stud. This doesn't seem terribly secure to me especially on such a heavy watch. Time will tell.Time keeping has been excellent. It was about a second fast after three or four days but is now spot on again after a week.That just leaves the bezel which was actually the first thing I noticed when I opened the box. It is plastic, feels flimsy and the numbers are not very well printed. I can just imagine banging the watch against something and the bezel cracking and falling off. It is unidirectional and has little indentations which enable it to be spun round rapidly with the aid of a finger nail.Overall, I would still say that this is a great watch for the money (£70) but I can't quite bring myself to give it 5 stars because of the bezel.

Good quality, solid Look.