Sportivo Compass Date — Blue Dial / Blue and Green Canvas and Rubber

Point the hour hand at the sun. Halve the angle between it and 12 o'clock. That bisector points south. Turn the bezel until its S sits there, and the Sportivo Compass Date has given you your bearings.

That is the entire method, and it is worth being clear about what this Mühle-Glashütte watch is not. There is no compass on the dial and no magnetic compass of any kind in the watch. The compass is a printed cardinal-point scale on the rotating bezel, and it works with the sun and the hour hand exactly as described. Mühle's own case for it is disarmingly practical: it is what you use when a flat phone battery has taken navigation off the table. The Sportivo family launched in 2024 and is rated to 30 bar throughout.

The dial is a blue gradient with an embossed texture that Mühle likens to the surface of the planet, read by dauphine hands with green accents, and the date sits at 3 o'clock. The compass bezel takes a blue ceramic inlay. This reference runs a blue and green canvas-and-rubber strap on a steel pin buckle. The 42.5 mm steel case is a slim 11.4 mm tall, with double anti-reflective sapphire, screw-down crown and an exhibition caseback over the SW 200-1, Version Mühle automatic, 41 hours.

Charming, genuinely usable, and unlike anything else in the catalogue.

Perfect for: compass bezel watch collectors, blue gradient dial buyers, outdoor and hiking automatic watches.