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Sold as military, and silent on all five specifications

Gvolatee metal marching compass with sighting window, spirit level and belt pouch

A lidded metal marching compass built around a sighting window and a spirit level, whose listing sells the word military and publishes not one of the specifications behind it.

Gvolatee metal marching compass with folding lid, sighting window and carry pouch

Gvolatee metal marching compass with sighting window, spirit level and belt pouch

A lidded metal marching compass built around a sighting window and a spirit level, whose listing sells the word military and publishes not one of the specifications behind it.

Needle balancing zone
Not published on the listing — a floating compass with a 360-degree dial is described, with no zone and no hemisphere named
Declination adjustment
Not published on the listing
Baseplate scales
Not published on the listing — this is a lidded metal marching compass rather than a baseplate instrument, and no rule is stated
Romer scales
Not published on the listing
Sighting mirror
Not published on the listing — the maker names a folding metal lid with a sighting window and a sight line, and calls the instrument prismatic, but no mirror appears anywhere
Luminous markings
The maker states the compass surface glows in the dark once it has taken up enough sunlight — no marking, colour or duration is specified
Stated weight
Not published on the listing — the maker calls it superlight without giving a figure
Amazon reference
B0BNN5P6BX (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
0709688598372
  • A folding metal lid with a sighting window and a sight line, which is a genuine aiming arrangement rather than a decorative hinge
  • A built-in spirit level, stated by the maker to be there so the instrument is read level
  • Sold as a military marching compass and publishes none of the five specifications this hub compares

Best for: Taking a rough bearing off a landscape feature with something solid enough to live on a belt.

≈ 11 €
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Specifications

Needle balancing zone
Not published on the listing — a floating compass with a 360-degree dial is described, with no zone and no hemisphere named
Declination adjustment
Not published on the listing
Baseplate scales
Not published on the listing — this is a lidded metal marching compass rather than a baseplate instrument, and no rule is stated
Romer scales
Not published on the listing
Sighting mirror
Not published on the listing — the maker names a folding metal lid with a sighting window and a sight line, and calls the instrument prismatic, but no mirror appears anywhere
Luminous markings
The maker states the compass surface glows in the dark once it has taken up enough sunlight — no marking, colour or duration is specified
Stated weight
Not published on the listing — the maker calls it superlight without giving a figure
Amazon reference
B0BNN5P6BX (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
0709688598372

What this listing puts on record

A metal-cased marching compass with a folding lid, a sighting window and a sight line for aiming, a floating card under a 360-degree dial, a built-in spirit level the maker says improves accuracy and reduces error, a surface stated to glow after taking up sunlight, a belt loop, a carry pouch, and a housing the maker calls high-strength engineer metal, waterproof and shockproof.

Where the word military stops

Two listings in this family carry it. It describes the case here — metal, hinged, pouched — and it is doing no other work, because the five things that separate a navigating instrument from a heavy keyring are all absent: no balancing zone, no declination setting, no baseplate rule, no romer, no mirror.

Said plainly: the marketing is about how it survives, and the specification sheet is about how it navigates, and only the first one is filled in.

The two fittings that are genuinely here

A sighting window and a sight line, on a lid that folds. That is an aiming arrangement, and it is the reason this shape of compass exists. It puts a bearing on a distant feature rather than on a map.

A spirit level, built in. The maker states it twice, in two different bullets, and says it is there so the instrument reads level. A tilted card reads wrong, so the level is not decoration.

Prismatic, or a lens compass

The bullets use both words for the same instrument — a prismatic compass in one place, a lens compass in another. They are not the same optic. The listing does not resolve it, and neither does this page.

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Ask what you would still be missing on a map. Without an edge rule you cannot lay it along a bearing line, and without a declination setting the correction between grid and magnetic north is a sum you carry in your head. Neither is here, and the pouch does not change that.

Availability

Selling between 11 € and 14 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores when this page was checked.

It also sells on the British Amazon store in the local currency, which the range above does not cover — that range counts euro stores and nothing else.

Catalogued on the American Amazon store with nobody selling it: the reference is there, the offer is not.

Every figure in this section is what Keepa returned on the day this page was last updated. Prices and offers change without notice.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 6 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

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