A legible dial - with the stride length scale can be adjusted to the unit on one's own stride well - you control the display result anyway on known path lengths and may possibly readjust something. There is only one (for me small) problem, which is the fixing of the counter at the belt clip. I had broken an eye after a few days. The supplier but the Graet easily replaced. Since then I wear the counter is no longer inside the waistband, but hooked into a pocket in the upper body clothing. Nevertheless I prefer this mechanical device from the electronic devices.