Featured Compasses (Click on Compasses above for more)

Antique Singers Patent MOP Dial Brass Compass, c. 1870

Short & Mason English Hunter Compass, c. 1910

WWI Short & Mason LTD London Compass, c. 1915

Thin Open-Face Swiss Compass, c. 1920

Antique F. Barker & Son Nautical Compass, c. 1880

Antique German Gimballed Ships Compass by LUFFT, c. 1920

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

Solid Silver Hunter Swiss Pocket Watch, c. 1900

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 ...'