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Luminous figures, a brass case, and no baseplate at all

MXTIMWAN brass pocket compass, 46 × 14 mm stated, luminous figures

A lidded brass pocket compass sold on its finish and its glow, with a case size in the bullets and not one of the seven specifications this hub compares.

MXTIMWAN polished brass pocket compass with a hinged lid

MXTIMWAN brass pocket compass, 46 × 14 mm stated, luminous figures

A lidded brass pocket compass sold on its finish and its glow, with a case size in the bullets and not one of the seven specifications this hub compares.

Needle balancing zone
Not published on the listing — no zone, no hemisphere and no global-needle claim appears in the title or in any of the five bullets
Declination adjustment
Not published on the listing
Baseplate scales
Not published on the listing — the maker describes a brass pocket case rather than a baseplate, and prints no scale rule
Romer scales
Not published on the listing
Sighting mirror
Not published on the listing
Luminous markings
Luminous figures — the title names Leuchtziffern, and the maker states the luminous material is made to take up enough light to be read in the dark
Stated weight
Not published on the listing — the maker gives a case size of 46 × 14 mm and no mass
Amazon reference
B0GYX8QMVV (same reference on 4 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
0759039304633
  • Publishes a case size, 46 × 14 mm, which five of the seven compasses here do not do at all
  • States luminous figures in the title rather than leaving the glow to a photograph
  • No balancing zone, so nothing on the listing says which part of the world the needle was set for

Best for: A pocket compass carried for its direction arrow and its looks, rather than for map work.

≈ 6 €
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Specifications

Needle balancing zone
Not published on the listing — no zone, no hemisphere and no global-needle claim appears in the title or in any of the five bullets
Declination adjustment
Not published on the listing
Baseplate scales
Not published on the listing — the maker describes a brass pocket case rather than a baseplate, and prints no scale rule
Romer scales
Not published on the listing
Sighting mirror
Not published on the listing
Luminous markings
Luminous figures — the title names Leuchtziffern, and the maker states the luminous material is made to take up enough light to be read in the dark
Stated weight
Not published on the listing — the maker gives a case size of 46 × 14 mm and no mass
Amazon reference
B0GYX8QMVV (same reference on 4 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
0759039304633

What this listing puts on record

A polished brass pocket compass with a hinged lid, a case size of 46 × 14 mm, luminous figures the maker says take up enough light to be read in the dark, and a description of the whole as waterproof and rainproof. The bullets name the case alloy as brass and the finish as high-gloss.

The five questions this shelf asks, and the answers here

A walking compass is bought on five things: where the needle is balanced, whether declination can be set with a screw, what scales run along the baseplate, whether a romer grid is cut into it, and whether a mirror lets you sight a bearing. This listing answers none of them.

That is not a failure peculiar to this one product. Across the seven compasses in this family, the balancing zone is published zero times, the declination setting zero times, the romer scales zero times and a sighting mirror zero times. What is unusual here is only that the case size gets a bullet of its own while none of the five gets a word.

What the glow is, and what it is not

Luminous figures — stated. The title carries the word, and the bullets explain that the luminous material was chosen to absorb light in daylight and give it back in the dark. Three of the seven compasses here publish a luminous marking of some kind, and this is one of them.

It reads the dial at dusk. It does not tell you which way the dial is set, because nothing on the listing does.

A brass case is not a baseplate

No plate, no rule, no romer. The instrument the maker describes is a lidded brass case, and there is no flat transparent plate to lay on a sheet, no straight edge cut to a map scale, and no grid square for reading a reference. Two of the seven here do publish an edge rule; this is a different kind of object.

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Read the 46 × 14 mm figure as a case size and not as a dial diameter — the maker gives one number pair and does not say which of the two is the dial. Then decide whether a direction arrow is what you want, because on this listing that is all that is claimed.

Availability

Selling between 6 € and 8 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores when this page was checked.

Nothing came back from the American and British Amazon stores, so the buy link there opens a local search instead of a page that is not there.

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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    EAN
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    Coating
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    Closure type
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    EAN
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