| AUDI | BREIL BREITLING |
CYMA | DALIL
Explorer DROZ DAVOSA |
ESQ |
| F... | GAC GALLANT GOLAY (Hector) GRUEN |
HOROSWISS | Islam IWC (Porsche Design) |
JOANNOT K... |
| LAINÉ LANGE & Söhne LONGINES LORUS LOTZ LUMINOX |
M.E.C.
(Military European Co., Mangusta A129) MIDO |
N... | OCTO | PICOT |
| Qibla | RAKETA (also written PAKETA or Pakema in Russian) | SEIKO SINN SQUALE Rambo |
THOMMEN THOUVENIN TIMEX |
U... |
| VINCENT | W... Wenger |
XEMEX | Y... | Z... |
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 Click on the pictures for enlarged views - Photos Jaypee - Priv. coll. |
Technical
Data - Material: steel, silver and gold plated - Diameter: - Depth: - Weight: gr - Markings inside the lid: - top: AT - bottom: 39497 |
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Description:
The
rear face displays a boat inside a circle with eight corners. Three
leaves are displayed in the top and bottom corners. The boat is a paddle steamer rigged like a two-masted schooner with three sails: fock and square rig fore, mainsail aft. Midship are the chimney and the paddle. |
| F.-A. THOUVENIN Watch with compass in the loop pendant, map reader and stopwatch  Pictures courtesy carsten-antik |
 Front face |
 Rear face marking (translation): "The Minister of War informs the officers on the use of the sound telemeter". |
Technical
Data Dia.: 2 in / 52mm Weight: 3.5 oz / 115gr Below l.: Fig. in Le Magasin Pittoresque. Right: Original design (crtsy. Christies)   |
Small plain version: Ø 54mm - 110gr 
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Large version according to
the
Swiss patent's definition (no. 46,732 of March 1909). Dim.: Ø 69mm - 243gr  Picture by courtesy of Carsten-Antik Below: Fig. of the Swiss patent  |
 Photocopies of patents and user instruction of sundial version (below) available. |
 Photograph of a real instrument |
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At left: the compass with
sundial (fig. of the
French
patent no. 388.619, click on img. for a view of all parts)
and the user instruction (31 p.). Below: Short descr. in the MORIN catalogue 1930:  |
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- LAINÉ,
Emile-Carlos Montre-boussole (sun-watch) "La Solaire"  |
Patent
for France (1905) (Click on the images for enlarged views) |
Below:
Excerpt of list
and short descr. of
new patents A colour picture of the watch was printed on the lid of a box. |
Ad
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- JOANNOT Philippe-Auguste, Genève Watch with compass (1894)  |
English description Dia. (as indicated in an advertisement) : 18 lines (c. 41 mm). |
French patent no.
162.995 of 29 June 84 
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patent no. 5.939 of 2 Dec. 1892 Pedometer with compass and map for various countries - Ø 48 mm / 2" |
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Fig.
in Swiss
patent |
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Technical
Data - Diameter: 45 mm - Thickness: 14 mm Watch with transparent dry compass. The bottom glass features a short ruler (20 mm) and some lines and dots, the meaning of which is not obvious. The watch case can swivel in its frame so that watch and compass are both visible at the same time. The watch case bottom features a mirror. |
 INCURSORE is the Italian word for intruder (Pictures scourtesy Breitlinglounge.de) |
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BREITLING
DPW
Compass Military - Incursore Printed on the glass capsule bottom: - 20 mm ruler - Network of lines (unknown function) - Compass manufacturer: WILKIE Read more about this item on the website www.Breitlinglounge.de |
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 The compass capsule can be extracted. (Click on the picture for a detailed view) |
Breitling Colt
Military Diver Compass. Extremely rare item. Only 800 were produced and used under very severe conditions. Very few still exist. Read more about this item on the website www.Breitlinglounge.de Technical Data - Production year: ca. 1985 - Casing: Steel - Diameter: 38 mm - Depth: 15 mm |
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  The
lateral quick-release screw
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Manufacturer: DAVOSA
(Switzerland) Technical data Horizontally sideways swivelling watch case. - Production year: 1990? - Casing: steel - Diameter: 50 mm - Depth: 18 mm - Weight: 130 g (Click on the pictures for detailed views) |
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XEMEX
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Offroad Swiss model designed by Ruedi Külling () Dim. : Ø 37.5mm, thickness 15mm Movement : automatic Exists also without seconds hands Note: The early version (1996 ?) featured a losenge-shaped magnet needle. |
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XEMEX
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Offroad Swiss model designed by Ruedi Külling (signature on case bottom) Dim.: Ø 37,5 mm, thickness 11 mm Movement: Quartz |
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BREIL Iitalian maker, located in Milano, created in 1939. This compass watch features the hands of the XEMEX Offroad model and the needle of the HOROSWISS, mod. DCW. Movement : automatic, diam. 39,5 mm Pictures copyright sometimeago and uhrerbe |
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MIDO
- The Tool Swiss
manufacturer created in 1918. Fancy model akin the famous Swiss pocket knife: the case features a lamp and a chain saw wound around a ring concealed below the crown which was also available in blue or red. |
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TIMEX
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model High Tide
Dia.: 45mm Thick: 12mm Weight: 89gr Analog compass needle. The needle indicates also the temperature and the tide level. Exists also in black with metallic strap. |
The models EXPEDITION
and COMPASS
(links to pics) only feature the compass function with and without
deviation adjustment. User instr. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFQmUHEjVqo ELECTRONIC COMPASSES See the patent TIMEX EP 270 427 (view of fig.). |
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TISSOT
- model T-Touch To activate the compass fonction touch the relevant zone. Both hands (min and h) are then aligned to build a compass needle and the angle value appears in the digital display (see image at left). |
User
instruction |
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Manufacturer: IWC
Porsche Design Technical Data - Production year: ca. 1990? - Casing: Steel - Diameter: .. mm - Depth: .. mm. - Dry compass manufacturer: ? Note: do not mix up with Horoswiss' fluid compass built in Eterna's version of the Porsche Design Pic. at left: The compass in the gold-case version* features LUFFT's logo, the maker of the famous Bézard compasses. * Pic. courtesy Chrono24.com |
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Manufacturer: IWC,
model name Portuguese Sidérale
Scafusia*
Technical Data - Ref. 5041 - Year of Manufacture: 2014 - Case material: platin, white or red gold - Dia.: 46mm - Thickness: 17.5mm Watch without compass but with customizable map of night sky on rear face * Link to description on IWC's web site |
Pictures by courtesy of Proworth |
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Manufacturer: Paul
PICOT Technical Data - Production year: 2006 - Casing: Steel - Diameter: .. mm - Depth: .. - Compass manufacturer: HOROSWISS |
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Manufacturer : SINN
Model
171 (Official website of the manufacturer HERE) Technical data Horizontally swivelling watch case. - Production year: ? - Casing: steel - Diameter: mm - Depth: mm - Weight: g - Compass Manufacturer: ? |
 Model series 5000QB with fluid capsule compass |
Manufacturer:
HOROSWISS * Technical Data - Dim.: 48 x 14.4mm - Casing: Steel, available in various colours (check the manufacturer's website). - Luminous paint: Trigalight ® - Manufactured: 2013. - High-quality product: label SWISS MADE (follow this link for more details). * See the company's profile HERE Picture courtesy HOROSWISS |
 Model series DCW with dry compass (see the user instructions in Engl. and Arabian language below) |
 Above: The models J.M. Cousteau (left, Automatic Eta 2892, blue face) and quartz (right, dark red) Below: Tachymeter  |
 Prototype of a model with swivelling case that enables a simultaneous view onto watch and compass. |
 Stop watch made for Hunting World |
 See also at the bottom of this page the QIBLA-Compass designed by Mr. Zwahlen before 1990. |
 Model designed by Mr Zwahlen in... ?  Model JAHAN designed by Mr Zwahlen between 1990 and 2000 |
 Note: Cooperation with Eterna. Do not mix up with the dry compass built into the IWC watches. |
Model PORSCHE
DESIGN with fluid compass made by Eterna.
The compass capsule can easily be
taken off and utilized separately. |
 View of the dismantled compass showing the various parts |
Some luxury watches
featuring an HOROSWISS
compass 
HERMES - NOMADE BOUSSOLE Picture at left courtesy Chrono24 / At right: ad. |
 ASPEN
(Picture
courtesy ASPEN
on Facebook) |
 POSEIDON |
PICOT (see above) |
MONTBLANC
1858 |
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Unknown
Swiss maker Probably 1st half of 20th C. A tiny magnetic needle with red north half sits on the hands' axis. (Click on the image for an enlarged view) |
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ESQ
- SWISS, SQUADRON Dry compass watches, plain model and stop watch. The compass is but a weak imitation of the DCW series produced by HOROSWISS. The needle swings on a brass cap and not a jewel and its oscillation movement is not damped by a copper "armour". Needle shape identical to DAVOSA's. Probably supplied by the same manufacturer. (Click on the images for enlarged views) |
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Manufacturer: OCTO
- Model
name SKYNAVY Read more about OCTO on the website www.forumamontre.com (in French and English language) Technical Data Very rare combined instrument (revolving watch / compass) - Production year: 1960's - Casing: Steel - Diameter: 38 mm - Depth: 17 mm - Weight: .. gr |
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G.A.C.
General
Aeronautical Co. Ltd,
Watch: CYMA  Technical
data- Cardinal points in French and Engl. - Casing: silver, signed Huguenin Frères - Calibre Cyma,13 lignes - 7, réf. 370 Savonette, 371 Lépine. Click on drawing at right for a description in FLIGHT 1915 |
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A.
LANGE
& Söhne Projects of watch designed for the Luftwaffe during IIIrd Reich's rearmament endeavour. The German Imperial Air Ministry (RLM) had laid down that all watches had to feature hours and angle values. The minutes represent each 4 degrees (360 / 60). The seconds hand rotates a full turn in 4 min., the minutes hand in 4 hours (60°) and the hours hand in 24 h (360°). Description (see pic. at left): Pictures and description by courtesy of Konrad Knirim published on his website Navigational timepieces of the Luftwaffe. (See also our LINKS) |
 Winds in Italian language (Click on the images for enlarged views) |
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LONGINES
1492
CRISTOBAL C. Model
built in 1992 for
the 500th
anniversary of the discovery of America by Chr. Colombus (view
of his ship on the rear face HERE).
Declination
adjusment range: abt.
+/-1 rhumb
(+/-22°).
Inventor: Frank Vaucher, Patent
no. 452.747. At
right: drawings from the
user instr.(copies available) |
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 User instructions (copies available) |
LONGINES
LINDBERGH This is a down-sized replica of the navigation system designed by Col. Charles Lindbergh to calculate the longitude. It is to be used together with a radio set giving the exact Greenwich Mean Time, a nautical almanach and a sextant. |
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 Picture courtesy Geronimo Rear
side: the model designation with the British Army's broad arrow
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Royal
Navy
Fleet Air Arm navigational watch model
HS.4 made by Hector GOLAY & Son Ltd London, Westmoreland House,
Regent Street (1937 / WWII) Technical Data In Fairey Swordfish aircraft dashboard-mounted navigation watch. - Dia.: 2 1/2 in. (62.5mm) - A ring (loop) is not missing: this instrument was stowed in a box, sometimes a cylindrical one out of which only the crown protruded. Additional functionality: The compass scale is printed on a rotating ring (bezel). See also KNIRIM, British Military Timepieces, pages 423-425. |
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AUDI (Automarke) As for the THOMMEN watch below, the compass is only a rose of the winds rotating with the hands. The instrument is to be held with the hour hand pointed to the sun. If by night, in the fog or rain, not really useful... If the N-S axis is ok everyday at 12, the East-West direction is absolutely exact only during the equinoxes. Very rare today: the cardinals are in German (O for Ost = East). The l./r. partition along the N-S axis featuring an inversion of contrast (white letters and figures on black ground) has no functional reason and is not related to the Singer design or the one of the Japanese wrist compass. The red hands are not luminous and the time can only be read thanks to the four notches in the case rim. Probably made in Asia. Period unknown. |
 Model featuring a non rotating divided circle Click on the pictures for enlarged views |
 Model marked CCCP
(USSR)
Compass
divisions in red every 30 degrees. Facing them, hours divisions (?) 1-5
running from the blue triangular pointer facing 0° to the red one
facing the 180° position.
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RAKETA Type 2609 H Sundial or compass watch made in the former Soviet Union and later in Russian featuring a divided circle which was non rotating and simply printed on the watch face around the hours on early models but could later be rotated via an additional crown located at 4 o'clock. The very early models were not marked in any way. The later ones were then marked СДЕЛАНО В СССР (Made in the USSR) and after the end of the Soviet Union СДЕЛАНО В РОССИИ (Made in Russia, link to picture).  |
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THOMMEN
LANDMARK LHOTSE
EXPEDITION 1988 Swiss watch featuring a central dial on which the cardinal points are printed and which rotates according to the hour hand, indicating thus the main directions as in the well-known method used by hikers and soldiers: south always lies halfway between the fig. 12 and the hour hand, i.e. between 6 and 12 on the left-hand side until noon and respectively on the right-hand side after noon (see also Macintosh's trading card CAMPING HINT N° 8). THOMMEN (link to website) is a Swiss manufacturer of aircraft instruments. There exists also a light survey compass with this brand name on the rotating card but it is a German product called MERIDIAN PRO made by Kasper und Richter (K&R). |
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LORUS
SPORTS SEIKO VECTOR Same system as above. When the sun is not shining, no orientation possible.. |
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GALLANT WATCHES, model name FIDELE The transparent dry-capsule compass is located under the flip-up watch. The retailer doesn't state where the watches are produced. Probably in Asia. |
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ARABIC
/ ISLAM / QIBLA Compass manufacturer : HOROSWISS Both rings (the outer white one and the inner green one) can be rotated via the two side crowns. Click HERE for a transcription in English of the cities and countries' names indicated on the dial. (Compassipedia thanks THE BOREAL ARROW for the friendly help and translation). See also the section Religion / Islam |