compass wood 3ds - Compass by 3pix

The mental ray version uses a DGS material for the face and wood, giving it a nice lacquered look. Glass uses a dielectric shader with caustics turned on. I opted out of creating a convex cover, didn’t want to distort the face when rendering. Metal lume shader for the accent metal, easy to change it to gold or silver if desired.
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Included my mentalray still setup which consists of two area lights, phototable backdrop and an enclosing cube to limit the photon trace. I have also colored the walls and use them for subtle reflective light when I want to add a bit more interest to products I render that by themselves aren’t that interesting to look at (kick the photons way up, and add gloss/specular to the wall materials, add color to grey walls as you like).

Note in mental ray setup, I keep my exposure a bit flat, I prefer to tweak after render, just change the exposure settings in the environment dialogue if you want to render brigher and with more contrast.