Charleston, South Carolina 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 Charleston tide clock: the harbor and its rivers etched into a 16.5 inch carved birch face, with a lunar-cycle hand tracking the water that runs the Lowcountry.
Charleston's six-foot tides organize everything: when Shem Creek's shrimp boats slip out, when the sandbar off Sullivan's shows itself, when the pluff mud takes over the view and the air. King tides flood the Battery's corners on schedule. The tide hand makes its rotation every 12 hours and 25 minutes with the moon, so one setting against local high water keeps the whole cycle on your wall.
For the piazza-adjacent hallway of anyone who plans by the creek, not the clock.
The harbor's full depths are carved on the Charleston 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
Live from the water