I purchased the watch because I needed one for my profession. I could have got a simpler watch but I liked the features of this watch, so I thought... if you look at the pic you will see that around the casing there are directions aka N E S W. However don't be fooled like I did. It is just decoration and there is no functional compass. Also the temperature gadge is a crock too. When not wearing the watch, it will give you room temp, if you calibrate it correctly. But if you wear it, which is mostly what I do when owning a watch, it will just give you the temp of your wrist. Not very helpful information. So basically the only feature that does work is the moon phase gadge, which is kind of cool, but honestly I can just look up to find that out. The actual clock works great, but the features do not. I do not recommend this.