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In one mode, the wrist compass face is rotated to match the compass needle to then see which way your finger is pointing and you are going. In the other mode, the face is adjusted to the north-pointing needle by clockwork to display the time.
Of course, this entails translating “north by northeast”
to “almost one o’clock” or dividing the number of degrees by 30.
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Let me be first to coin the phrase, "Even a broken compass points north once in a while." |
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Right, once every revolution. |
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Interesting. Yes, it is possible to tell
direction by aiming the hour hand of a
watch at your sun. Equatorway will be
inbetween 12 and hour hand, short
angle. + |
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"It's East minutes past North" |
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Arrrr, there be a strong nor' by nor' nine o'clockly gale a blowin'. |
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If you are like me, you use google to crush dreams.
Fairly baked.
[see link]
Edit- Oh, I get it now. |
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[NylonStringer], that's just a watch and a compass in the same case; the idea is something else entirely (as is usual with [FJ]). |
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<walks in a large circle for 12 hours> <considers re-reading the directions> |
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What [sartep] said. And that pretty much makes this redundant? (except at night that is(when also clouds block the vieuw of the stars( in which case I want one( damn why is it so hard to bone [farmerjohn]'s ideas?)))) |
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Here in the southern hemisphere, the sun has a digital rss display. You don't have that in the north? |
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