Buy a watch compass

There is an old boy scouts trick which enables you to use a standard watch as a compass. The theory is that to use a watch compass you need only to know where the sun is, and you can figure out where north should be. This does require some local knowledge and some mathematical skills. The watch compass is created by putting a knife point in the center of the dial, and turning the watch around until the shadow falls on the hour hand.

From this, you can work out where south is, since the sun travels across the sky from east to west every 12 hours. Working it out is a little bit tricky, but can be done. A better solution is to buy a dedicated watch compass – a watch that is also a compass.

The advantages over the fake watch compass, or the boy scout trick, is in ease of use and accuracy. It is not possible, for example, to navigate properly without a real compass. It can, however, be tiresome to have to carry both a watch and a compass around, not to mention the added convenience of having a compass on your wrist.

There are two kinds of watch compass generally available, digital and analogue. The Analogue ones tend to just be simple analogue compasses which are added to the strap of your watch, which is convenient, but less powerful than the digital equivalents.

These tend to be either compasses or miniature GPS systems which combine compass watch and simple GPS all in one package – the perfect gift for any traveler.

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