Bar Harbor & Mount Desert, Maine Wood Tide Clock | Carved Birch Coastal Wall Clock
How the Water Becomes Wood
One hand on this wall answers to the moon, not the hour.
- ChartThe recessed birch face carries the water's etched shoreline over a hand-stained sea.
- MovementA quartz mechanism turns the tide hand once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the lunar tide cycle.
- Set onceAlign it at your local high tide, or at the full or new moon, and it tracks from there.
- NoteTide movements are offered for East Coast waters only; Gulf and West Coast tides run too irregular for a quartz mechanism.
A tide clock carved for Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island: a 16.5 inch birch face with Acadia's shoreline etched in, and a hand that follows the moon instead of the hour.
Downeast Maine runs some of the biggest tides on the Atlantic seaboard, and Bar Harbor's are famous for a reason you can walk: at low water a gravel bar rises from the sea and connects town to Bar Island, then vanishes again on the flood, stranding the inattentive twice a day. The tide hand turns once every 12 hours and 25 minutes on the lunar cycle, so a single setting against local high water keeps the bar's schedule on your wall.
For anyone who has checked their watch halfway across and picked up the pace.
The island's full water gets the deep-relief treatment on the Bar Harbor 3D chart.
- 16.5 in diameter, quartz tide movement
- Set once at local high tide
- Laser-etched birch face, AA battery, ready to hang
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- 14-day returns
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