If you buy this watch for its looks, low maintenance time-keeping, Eco-Drive, and the perpetual calendar (like I did) you won't be disappointed. The 24-hour hand is a nice touch, and the rotating bevel works fine. As noted in other reviews, it's on the larger side, which is in style, and it's not enormous like some watches. The band is a nice piece of stitched leather.

The alarm is ok - not very easy to set, as loud or louder as some of the alarms I have on other watches.

The local time is limited to offsets of complete hours, so if you go to one of the stange time zones or daylight savings areas that are offset by 30 minutes, you are out of luck. If you travel and actually use this feature a lot you want a true additional time that is not limited in this fashion.

The chronograph is nearly unusable. First you have to pull out the crown halfway to position 1 and rotate it to select the function, then push the crown back in. This stops the second hand. You could leave it this way and leave the chrono running to get the second hand moving as if telling normal time, but it resets to 0 after 1 hour.  So if you leave it in normal time mode, you aren't going to go through the effort to change the setup if you want to time a steak on the grill or something interesting that you just happen to see. If it is in normal time mode and you pull the crown out to position 2 rather than position 1, well, now you are in the 'set time' mode, which you did not want, and if you spin the crown, instead of switching to chrono mode, you now have no idea what time it is.

When the chrono is first triggered, the second hand sweeps around the dial the first time for sub-second resolution, which is a nice touch. However, if you actually stop it in the first second, the second hand goes to 0 and you can only get the sub-second timing by pushing the lower side button which then moves the small dial to show sub-second time. Note that this makes the tachometer markings on the inside edge of the dial totally useless. (but still nice looking!) And there is no split time function (none claimed), which you would want if you were actually timing a lapped sporting event - running, swimming, car racing, etc. But if you were doing that you would be using a dedicated digital timer anyway, not your watch.

So buy it and enjoy, but take the 'chronograph' label with a large dose of salt. (And don't pay full MSRP!)