Hard Shell Liquid Filled Button Compass Set for Survival Watch Band Paracord Bracelet Pack of 10

Note I use these for Paracord projects and yes me and others I know have actually used these before out at night or in one friends case even during the day (he's directionally challenged let's just say). That said these are good little cheap compasses useful for Paracord projects. Bracelets, keychains, zipper pulls etc. I've boughten several packs now over a few years and they surprisingly hold up well for these uses in typical everyday life. A friend of mine is even a forest firefighter and his keychain one I made him lasted him most of the fire season before it broke. Are they generally accurate and good enough for a general heading? Definitely useful for exactly that. Are they the most accurate? No. Good for orienteering or long range wilderness navigation such as rangers or scouts in the military do? Absolutely NOT. There is no dial and degrees to plot points needed to navigate by compass over long distances with precise accuracy of direction. (Note I used to do orienteering for fun when I was younger. So I still kinda remember the basics of precise land navigation.) Again good for GENERAL heading and orientation to orient oneself if you're completely baffled for some reason and need to know where North is in order to orient yourself. Will need a light source however as they do not glow in the dark. So as a backup compass you could keep one you at all times like I do or my friends who have similar Paracord keychains I've made it works great for that purpose. As a general heading compass to be used as a backup IF needed. Honestly more than anything they are primarily ascetic for me, my friends, and family more than function though again we have used them at times respectively. As for durability? Don't hit them and they'll be fine. Make the compass, not the bracelet or keychains or whatever it's attached to, flat and it should work as long as they aren't cracked or the housing shoved inside and crushing the inside.

They work OK, great deal for the quantity. I have used wrist compasses for decades. My kids & grandkids like them too. Many other brands out there for more, a little more accurate, but these are OK. Good size and fit bands OK. Just measure your watch band first.

Not top notch quality, and not accurate enough to be a main compass if you want to do any actual wilderness navigating with it, BUT these are great if you want a bunch of compasses that will work in a pinch to stash in various places. I put one in each of my backpacks for scenarios something like: I went out for a dayhike and it ran a little longer than I thought, now the sun is going down and everything looks different in the dark, I didn't bring a "real" compass because it was just a dayhike on established trails, and I have a map but with different light and a fatigued mental state I can't tell if I'm on trail X running N/S or trail Y running E/W, so I pull out the mini compass that I stashed at the bottom of my pack 6 months ago and use it to find my way home. Or simply something like: I took my mom backpacking and she wanted to see how a compass works so I handed her mine and started to explain, she promptly dropped it, cracking the housing and mangling the needle on a rock, thanks mom, good thing I've got a mini compass stashed in my hip belt pocket (No, this didn't actually happen). Had one that didn't work at all out of the box (seems to be not magnetized, even tried re-magnetizing it and it won't take) and one or two others that don't quite point North no matter what I do, but for this price on amazon you expect a few of them to be less than perfect. The pivots are a little finicky (you need to be sure you can tell the difference between the needle stopping because it's found North, or stopping because you tilted the compass juuuusssst a little bit off level) but this is hard to avoid with something this small. If you're willing to weed out the duds and deal with less than exceptional pivots, then this is a good multi pack of "backup" compasses for dirt cheap. After some research, the smallest compass I could find with good reliability reviews (from people who know more about this stuff than I do) costs upwards of $20 (and it's larger, so more obtrusive as a backup), here you're getting workable compasses for a little over $1 each and they're small enough to fit anywhere without getting in the way. I would love to have a $20+ mini compass in each of my backpacks and various other nooks and crannies, but I just can't justify that cost for a "what if" situational device that will probably never see use. These are great, as long as you understand what you're getting. Buy one good compass and use that when you really need a compass (and know you might need it), but buy these for a fallback plan, stocking stuffer, crafting project, or whatever else.

These compasses are tiny. The face is about the size of a US nickel. They have a floating face instead of the needle: when you turn the face turns, so that north is always pointing north. My kids can read these more easily than those that use needles, where you have to rotate the compass to keep N under the red arrow. The compasses come in a clear plastic case, with a latching lid and ten compartments to securely store each compass. I wouldn't trust these with my life in the wilderness, but they are somewhat accurate enough for a child to get the hang of using a compass. My one complaint is that nearly half of these did not work at all, or required that you shake them to make the dial turn to the correct position. Out of the ten compasses we received, six of them would consistently turn to the proper facing, though slowly (5-10 seconds), three required shaking to turn correctly, and one seemed to be all over the map, even if you shook it. These are decent as a teaching aid to young kids, but there are some better offerings at Amazon that work much better.

The package came in with 10 compass sitting inside a plastic box. All 10 units are working and they are all pointing north !! Compared to my 20 year old shell compass (which is no longer pointing north), they all seem to be decent quality. Dressed some of them up with some mini paracord as shown in the photo :)