How to Find North With a Watch
- 1). Remove the watch from your wrist and set it on a flat surface.
- 2). Place a twig upright in the ground to cast a shadow from the sun.
- 3). Line the hour hand up with the shadow from the stick so the hour hand also points toward the sun.
- 4). Look at the angle between the hour hand and the number 12 on the watch dial.
- 5). Mentally bisect that angle (cut in half) to find the line halfway between 12 on the dial and the hour hand, which points toward the north.
