Mini Titanium/Brass Compass, Waterproof IPX5 Pocket Compass for Hiking & Survival, Keychain & Necklace Gifts for Men & Women, Ideal Graduation & Outdoor Adventure Present

This compass looks cosmetically like many cheap models, but is much better made. It has a very strong magnet on the pointer that reacts rapidly to the Earth's field. One interesting side effect of this is that it is attracted to nearby magnetic materials more than cheaper units, so using it inside a car must be done with care by holding it away from body structures by a foot at the very least. This effect is probably similar to weaker compasses, but this one is so well made you see the effect immediately. Really good to carry on your (nonferrous) keychain for directional info.

I’ve been carrying one of these on my keychain for a good while. I ensured that the split rings I used were brass (as they could throw off the reading). My son, who is in the National Guard, has one of these on his keyring and his girlfriend was given one by me as a gift from me to welcome her to the family. Make no mistake, this isn’t a toy…but the real thing. I own some of the most expensive and accurate compasses you can buy and I can tell you from personal experience, this one is well built, very accurate and won’t let you down.

A nice piece. A gift for my grandson, and he will love it I’m sure. However, I wouldn’t necessarily depend on its 100% accuracy if I was lost in the woods :).But great for my needs! I am very happy with my purchase.

Looks nice and works well. Nice to carry round neck when in wilderness.

The only thing that was a little negative was it was a little smaller than I thought but overall, I’d say it’s 100% home run. It even comes with a chain and a really nice plastic box that can be used to something else.

I bought this compass to hang on my pocket knife with a plastic quick disconnect link and some paracord. I was impressed with its weight and apparent quality of construction. Despite what some are writing about the included chain being ferrous mine was not. Even wadded into a ball and placed next to the compass the chain did not affect the operation so it's definitely not made of ferrous metal. Regarding what some are saying that the pointer jumps around a lot. The compass (any compass) needs to rest on a solid, flat surface to read correctly. The trick is to slightly tilt the compass to bind up the needle a bit then lay it flat and it will point north in a nanosecond. It's all in the the operation. This seems like a pretty good unit for giving you rough headings. I wouldn't use it to navigate with but just for getting your general bearings it seems to be pretty good.

I first ordered two of these. They quickly acquired a direction only approximating North. Worse is the fact that the two differ in direction (as near as I can tell on a small button compass) by about 15 degrees! Well, a button sized compass understandably already limits its usefulness to general backup orienteering, but these can't even find North! I thought to give MecArmy a second chance and ordered two more of these hoping that I might have received unusually bad outlier units missed as faulty during assembly (bad QA/QC). Wrong. The next two display the aggravating characteristic of taking forever (many, many seconds - and never if holding by hand due to reasonable hand instability) to stop oscillating back and forth before finally settling into, again, bad approximations of North. The units look really nice. I bought Titanium for looks and durability (its non-magnetic and strong). I bought these to make "Ranger/Pace Bead" assemblies with attached titanium compass and titanium whistle for Christmas Gifts. I can't give these out because they are not even close to useful. Unless MecArmy contacts me after reading this and replaces these four units with functional ones, I must warn all that these are expensive eye candy that no one should entertain trusting in an emergency situation as a backup compass. I have to keep one of the four as I already incorporated it into one of my Christmas Gifts and is the least bad (withing -2 degrees of magnetic North). The other three I am returning since I'm not getting any support from seller via Amazon. I submitted pictures and movies showing the issues, but they got stripped from this review somehow.

This product seems like it was made really well. I really liked it and how it felt in my hand but I didn’t know the compass part unscrews. I put it in my keys and by the end of the first day I looked at it and it was gone and was just the frame and I couldn’t find it anywhere.