Antique Nautical Maritime Brass Push Button Pocket Sundial Compass

This brass sundial opens up to show a working compass, by pressing the button on top. Solid brass in a brown antique, a very pretty color. This is a beautiful solid brass  reproduction of a sundial with an internal magnetic compass. Making this a beautiful addition to very nice nautical necklace gift executive promotion for gift. This Is A beautiful Polished Solid Brass Reproduction of An Antique Pocket Sundial With An Internal Magnetic Compass. The Top Of The Sundial Is Hinged And A Curved Scale Is Use To Set You Local Latitude Angle. The Magnetic Compass Allow The Sundial To Be Oriented North.The Compass Features A Needle Lift Mechanism To Protect The Compass's Jeweled Bearing When Transported. The Sun's Shadow Cast By The Sundial's Vane Mark The Local Time . The Top Of The Sundial Can Lay Down Flat, And Both The Latitude Scale And The Sundial Vane Are Hinged To lay Flat For Compact Storage.

C) A bright sunny (not overcast) day! Note: this is not a quartz watch - at the very best it will give you the time to within a

quarter of an hour. The time indicated will always be GMT not BST.

Procedure:

iii) Tilt the hinged chapter ring (the circle with the Roman numerals) to your latitude using the latitude quadrant as your index. N.B. In the British isles this will only be slightly off the horizontal.

iv) Place the instrument on the horizontal surface and orientate it so that when the compass needle comes to rest the "N" point (red) is over the North of the lower compass rose.

v) The shadow of the gnomon on the chapter ring will give you the time. That's it!