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  Paul

  10 years ago

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  Sorry guys, but that is in fact a compass. I know because I have one. It's a drafting compass to be used with a small lead tip installed in the tip.

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  Andrew

  13 years ago

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  DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE THAT WATCH IS FROM???

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  David Patters

  13 years ago

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  Cool execution, but little creativity. The photographs are what set this project apart. Seems silly to drool over something with a big "C" on it. Maybe I should go to my local antique store and grab a bunch of stuff that Billy the Kid carried. A nice stylistic "C" would do the the job there too. Cowboy Essentials. I rather like that...

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  Anonymous

  13 years ago

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  What's the point of buying a bunch of stuff and putting your own logo on it?

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  lucklucky

  13 years ago

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  I think it is ridiculous because it is all exclusively from 60's. There is no adapting to today. That would be an interesting exercise not this.
  
  This is just a lazy excuse to use a household name.
  
  There is no drool. Just an !?

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  Zachh

  13 years ago

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  Drool worthy? please ...
  
  This is every hyper-blogged emerging trend over the past 3 years distilled into an over branded box lacking true identity.
  
  Core77 should maintain it's focus on the movers, shakers and technology. Leave the hipster brand whoring to the likes of NotCot - it seems more permissible there.
  
  A nod to Kal C's earlier comment.
  
  

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  SFPaul

  13 years ago

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  While dividers are used in navigation of course, I think here they are being presented as a much more useful tool. They really are nothing more than a way to repeat a set distance, to step it off. I know nothing about the subject but isn't much of design of architecture come directly from the use of dividers? Proportions, baby, and that is what dividers do best.

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  Carl MH Barenbrug

  13 years ago

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  A very nice set of tools (most of them), but why the present tense?

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  ono

  13 years ago

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  And that watch?? Is that the best they could get?

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  Tom W

  13 years ago

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  ...no leather gloves?
  
  ...ignore Kal C. He's just jealous he ain't got no style

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  Otiose

  13 years ago

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  A dividing compass was a way cool thing back then. I had one in the mid-60s, even though I had no need for it. It was a gift from someone who didn't know what to get me, if I recall. I kept it in my dresser for a number of years, as it really was a beautifully made device. Today, guys receive useless electronics; back then they got just generally useless things like this.

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  Pal. P

  13 years ago

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  Kally, (can I call you Kally? I'm gonna call you Kally) this wasn't done for profit, so your point is moot. I wish that instead of trying to poop on other's parades, you would instead offer some constructive criticism that your brain obviously isn't capable of putting together.
  
  Since I practice what I preach, here's some constructive criticism for your comment:
  - "Ridiculous...." improper use of ellipsis, tsk tsk.
  - I don't know about you, but packaging "cool" would be pretty goddamn awesome.
  - Quite a grumpy tone there.
  - "Thats original." That's a terribly punctuated sentence.

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  Kal C.

  13 years ago

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  Ridiculous....
  
  Another attempt at packaging 'coolness' for profit.
  
  Make your own 'beat-up leather duffle bag' and put your own items in it.
  
  Thats original.

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  renato

  13 years ago

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  I guess he's missing a map then...

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  george

  13 years ago

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  yeh they are dividers for measuring a distance on a map you set them on the sail to say one mile and then you can walk them across the map to determine a distance , they are still used a fair bit for sailing on nautical charts but not very often for normal maps anymore

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  Hai

  13 years ago

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  To measure distances on a map....

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  Sergio

  13 years ago

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  Well, maybe you are too young but this type of compass is used to measure distances in a map.
  First you take the reference scale of the map and after you calculate the distance.
  Cheaper than a GPS.

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  Adam

  13 years ago

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  I think that is a divider, not a compass...no pencil end?

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  jeff

  13 years ago

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  I believe Steve McQueen would also wear Persols than those RayBans.

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  Dan Lewis

  13 years ago

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  It's not a compass.

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