Had bought the compass due to the relatively good rating on Amazon. Unfortunately, he has been good not much in practice (among other things I could not draw a neat little circles and had the mine always adjusted in height, when I changed the circle diameter). Thought I try again to me to appoint a reasonable compass and have me then to Faber-Castell 174472 - Rapid adjustment GRIP 2001 at Amazon selected. First impression / test was (having to adapt beautiful circle without slipping and without the mine height) very well and to my surprise was the Circle even "Made in Germany". At least according to my memory comes the other circles of Helit from China - it shows.