Excellence in compass-craft.
For over 40 years, we have owed our position as market leader not only to our extensive range of 400 models, but also to our continuous effort to offer you such a top quality product that you never have chance to mention it, except than recommend it to a friend getting ready to equip his boat.

Compass production is fully controlled in our Lorient (France) factory, including of course plastic injection engineering, on which Plastimo has built its worldwide reputation.

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A Plastimo compass is a meticulously engineered instrument. The complexity of components and the extreme accuracy required at every stage forbids production automation ; every compass is assembled manually. Even when brand new, it already has an interesting history...

Every compass card is balanced manually to ensure its perfect horizontality. This is an extremely delicate operation, requiring patient and scrupulous craftmanship which only years of experience can bring.

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Printing and legibility of the card must pass microscopic examination. Quality and durability of the printing are fundamental. Once the compass is assembled, the magnification of the card is such that the slightest flaw would be intolerable. Plastimo owes its position as market leader to this uncompromisingly stringent selection of cards.

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Produced from state-ofthe-art injection moulding machines, domes are individually inspected, thus eliminating the slightest risk of imperfection -optical or mechanical.

The oven test is used to detect possible leaks. Each compass is placed for 2 hours in a cabinet heated to +60°C. As this produces an expansion of the fluid, the diaphragm compensates for volume fluctuations.