Featured Compasses (Click on Compasses above for more)

Dennison Birmingham CUPREL Compass, c. 1920

Victorian Compass in Wood Case - c. 1860

English Hunter Compass, c. 1900

English Officer WWII Wrist Compass

ANTIQUE VICTORIAN POCKET CASED COMPENSATED BAROMETER by ROSS LONDON

German Compass U.S. Engineering Department, 1913

Featured Watches (Click on Watches above for more)

Antique Solid Silver Swiss OMEGA Pocket Watch c. 1890

14K Solid Gold OMEGA Swiss Pocket Watch c. 1908

Silver Pair Case Verge Fusee Alarm Pocket Watch by Simon Mair of Neuburg, c. 1705

Mint Elgin 16S Railroad Pocket Watch 1954

Antique 1903 Elgin Gold Filled 16 Size, 17 Jewels, Grade 246 Pocket Watch

Railroad 16 Size 21 Jewels B. W. Raymond Elgin Pocket Watch

He was five years old when his eyes came across a little compass for the first time. He was playing in the open field far from the house, and the new discovery made him run to meet his father. It was a little open-faced compass with a small needle. At first, the boy thought it was a watch, but the strange movement of the single needle, which even him recognized that it was unusual in watches, intrigued him. He was running fast, clutching the compass so carefully in his hand, searching for his father. He not for the world wanted to risk loosing his new discovery. His father tried hard to explain its mechanism, but in vain. The knowledge of the surrounding world was too small for the boy to understand. Finally, his  father told him that a compass helps navigators find their way when they are lost. The intrigued boy felt a kind of magic in the air. He stopped listening and thought: 'I have a magic device, it is called a compass, what a magic word, ... compass ...'