GRAF Zeppelin Chronograph and Alarm Watch

This was my Father's Day gift from my wife, which I picked out. I have to say, the watch is so elegant and classy, but also has a very manly look to it, quite unlike most of dress watches in the market. It goes well with my suits and casual attires.First time owing a German-made, and I love it. The band is top quality leather. No cutting corners.One thing that I have to mention is that the color of the dial is not consistent with the ad pics. I bought a black dial, but found out it was more charcoal with slight reflections. Depends on the angle that you're viewing from, sometimes it's very hard to tell the time.Overall, I love the watch and looking to by more Zeppelins if I get a chance (hopefully, with lighter color dials). Highly recommend it!

I like vintage watches and this one is an excellent representation of a by gone era. It looks great and is priced well.

I love this watch because it just looks great, and the wrist band is super comfortable. The hands are a little hard to see and the date is occasionally off by a day, but come on people, this is primarily a fashion accessory. I would definitely buy again, but only if I could get the same price I got when the Euro sort of crashed several weeks ago (around $330).

Probably the best watch, and most expensive, I've ever owned. It's well made and fits the descriptions you see on Amazon and the Graf website. It's a complicated watch with all its chronograph functions, which I only have need of about three times a year. If you don't often use these functions, you are well advised not to lose the instructions that come with the watch. It's a fine German watch design with Swiss movement.The watch face is difficult to read. The chronograph functions are very small; you'll need your reading glasses and good light to read it. Also, the hour and minute hands "get lost" among all the functions on the face which are made of similar looking materials of the same hues. There is an alarm on this watch, which entails aligning it with the reference time, which is an invisible time reference that "runs in the background" according to the instructions. When I first got the watch I was overwhelmed by all the functions and did not bother to figure out how to set the alarm. Yesterday I spent about an hour and figured it out. It's not an easy set as it would be on a digital watch; it's complicated and non-intuitive.. So the only way I'm going to use the alarm is if the alarm is extremely important. I can't imagine using the alarm several times a day or for a Scrabble game, for example. It's just not worth the trouble. Still, the watch is decent despite these flaws in design. I may be hypercritical.

It is one of the best looking and functioning watches I have purchased within this price range. My watch enthusiast friends complement constantly and they collect expensive watches. I highly recommend this watch.

Beautiful watch but you can’t tell what time it is. It is very difficult, because of the dial, to see the hands. I would suggest you buy the white dial. The dial does not reflect a black color a lot of the time. The dial often looks a silver or grey color.

very nice watch that looks nice

It's not black! It's a silver grey, but it looks really elegant. The domed crystal gives this a 3D effect which makes the watch very interesting to look at. I put mine on a butterfly clasp and it looks way more expensive then it really is.You need to know something about setting the alarm though: Setting the reference time requires a little trick. Here is an example how to set it so your alarm is perfectly on time...If it's 11:33 exactly when you pull the crown out to stop the movement, first set the reference to 11:35 but make your last B button push, advancing the reference to 11:35, exactly at 11:34 (you get 10 seconds before it takes itself out of reference set mode so you need to play with it a bit to get the timing right). So now your reference is exactly one minute ahead but your reference seconds are aligned with atomic time. Ten seconds later you'll get the chime telling you the reference is set. Now catch up the watch time to 11:35 and when the atomic time gets to 11:35 exactly, push in the crown. Now both reference and time are synched to both the atomic time and each other, and the alarm will go off right when you want it to.The reason you need to do this is the reference starts its own seconds clock from the time of the last B button press but the hands don't move until the crown is pushed in so you have to set the seconds of the reference then set the seconds of the watch time separately because you can only be in one mode at a time. If you set the reference at 11:34 then set the watch time at 11:35 the reference will be one minute behind and so will your alarm because the reference seconds will be synced but the minute hand of the reference clock won't have moved between 11:34 and 11:35.Don't get discouraged if this sounds complicated, you're just setting the reference clock one minute ahead of the watch clock and synching them once the watch minutes catches up with the reference minutes. And it's a quartz so you only need to do it once! It's worth it to have everything on your watch perfectly synched.