LeCoultre Compass Camera, what an engineering beauty desu.
>This is one of the most unlikely and wonderful little machines to come out of Jaeger-LeCoultre, ever. You may have read about the Compass Camera before, but if not, it's a compact camera that JLC made in the late 1930s, and at the time it was one of the most technically advanced cameras anyone had ever made. Machined out of aluminum, it's a 35mm film camera, with rangefinder, ground glass viewfinder, exposure meter, and a ton of other bells and whistles, all in a package just 2 3/4 inches x 2 1/4 inches x 1 1/4 inches.>The Compass Camera was the brainchild of a guy who, if you were in an especially charitable mood, you'd describe as "a character."Noel Pemberton Billing (1881-1948) was a man of many interests, and nothing if not an iconoclast – he got his start in professional life when, at the age of 13, he set fire to the headmaster's office at his school and ran away from home.https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/jaeger-lecoultre-compass-camerahttps://youtu.be/-rP0qOJW1AQEven the tripod looks nicely crafted and deadly.
