Featured Compasses (Click on Compasses above for more)

Antique Leather-Cased Victorian Compendium by Negretti & Zambra of LONDON, c. 1900

Solid Silver Hunter Compass with Hallmarks 1873 by Chadburn & Son

Antique Compendium by Callaghan, London, c. 1865

Georgian Leather-Cased Long-Neck Silver Compass by DIXEY, Hallmarks London, 1854

1893 B&S Hallmarked Silver Antique Fob Charm Compass

Rare Gimballed Compass in Hunter Case, c. 1900

Featured Watches (Click on Watches above for more)

Mint 1900 Waltham 14K Solid Gold Antique Pocket Watch

14K Solid Gold OMEGA Swiss Pocket Watch c. 1908

Minty Hamilton 10K Gold Filled 12 Size Pocket Watch 1919

Mint Elgin 16S Railroad Pocket Watch 1954

Waltham 16 Size Gold Filled Pocket Watch, 1908

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 ...'