Boston Harbor, Massachusetts wood wall clock in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Wood Wall Clock | Carved Birch Lake Map Clock

$ 74.00
12 in diameter
Birch, hand-stained water
Layered shoreline face
Laser-etched contours, AA battery
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

The face is the water itself, holding regular hours.

  1. ChartThe shoreline is taken from a bathymetric chart of the water.
  2. CutThe face is laser-cut birch with a hand-stained water layer beneath.
  3. EtchContours, depths, and place names are burned into the surface.
  4. RunA single AA battery drives the movement, and it arrives ready to hang.

A Boston Harbor wall clock: a 12 inch carved birch face with the harbor and its islands laser-etched beneath the hands.

The harbor keeps the city's oldest hours. Ferries out to the islands, planes banking over the channels into Logan, the fish pier working before dawn, all of it moving across the water this clock carries in miniature: Spectacle and Georges in the etching, the shipping lanes threading between.

Sized for a kitchen, an office, or the wall of anyone who measures Boston by its waterfront rather than its skyline.

The full harbor in stacked relief lives on the Boston Harbor 3D chart.

  • 12 in diameter
  • Laser-etched birch face, hand-stained water
  • Runs on a single AA battery, ready to hang
  • Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
  • 14-day returns
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