Braun Digital Alarm Clock with Date, Month and Temperature Displayed, Negative LCD Display, Quick Set, Crescendo Beep Alarm in Black, Model BC10B (1-Pack)

Great looking, great value, just what i wanted!

Excellent for a dark room. Doesn't light the place up. Very easy to read as the numbers are big. Good quality.

The good: It's a very well made clock. The alarm switch is satisfying. The backlight is very even and pleasant. The night time backlight is optional. It is very dim as it should be, maybe just slightly on the bright side but compared to most illuminated clocks it's actually not disturbing. It casts enough light to be able to see about 50cm around it but it's a very soft light. This night-time backlight turns off during the day - it has an ambient light sensor to decide so it responds to room lights too. The +/- controls for setting the clock and the alarm make small adjustments very convenient and easy. The terrible: it's basically invisible in room daylight. Just a dark grey screen. Looks great in direct sunlight, and if you touch the top to get the full brightness backlight, but very hard to read in normal diffuse room light. It's a big let down honestly but I can't bring myself to rate it less than 4 despite this, primarily because other bedside clocks I've tried are so much worse in other ways.

This clock is just as described and works exactly as expected. The display is clear and visible during daylight but unless the nighttime display is selected on it is not visible at night until you touch the top of the clock. Touching the clock illuminates the display for about 10 seconds and is perfect for nighttime viewing. I read that having the nighttime display selected on uses battery life fairly quickly and so haven’t tried it yet. The alarm has an increasing tone and is excellent for my requirements. Overall I’m very pleased with my purchase.

It was good in the brief period it worked perfectly but it seems to be wired very shoddily. It started malfunctioning very quickly but I put up with it because it still technically worked. At first the display would just flicker constantly. In the end I had to leave it on the brighter setting that I didn't want to use just so that the flicker would be less noticible. More recently the alarm is stuck in the on state so if I wake up early and want to prevent the alarm from going off I either have to take the batteries out (which means I need to configure the clock again) or take the clock with me so I can shut it off when it does go off. It's not the quality I had previously associated with Braun (and that I was willing to pay extra for) and I likely wont buy a product from them again.

Lovely alarm clock but alarm sound is quite high pitched and unfortunately, due to some hearing loss, I can't hear it. Have repurposed as a hall clock. There is no way to change the alarm sound or increase loudness, alas.

Compact but easy to read. Good to be able to switch off backlight at night to prevent light disturbance. Easy to use and battery powered so does not need a reset during a power cut.

Looks good and, so far, seems to keep good time. Alarm works well. Not the cheapest but Braun never was.