Chesapeake Bay, carved into a tide clock
Birch face, hand-stained sea, one hand set to the tide.
“Beautiful piece, expertly crafted. Packed well and arrived in perfect condition.”
Mark S., Hudson, OH. Verified buyer
A Chesapeake Bay tide clock: 16.5 inches of carved birch with the Bay etched across the face and a single hand keeping the moon's schedule.
Details
- Dimensions
- 16.5 in diameter
- Material
- Birch, hand-stained water
- Build
- Recessed layered face
- Detail
- Quartz tide movement, AA battery
- Soundings
- NOAA nautical survey data
About this piece
Chesapeake tides are modest in feet and mighty in consequence: they set when the watermen run their trotlines, when the flats hold enough water for the skiff, and when the crabs move. The tide hand rotates once every 12 hours and 25 minutes on the lunar cycle, so one setting against local high water keeps your creek's rhythm on the wall through the season.
It belongs where the crab steamer and the dip nets live.
The Bay's full depths are carved in layers on the Chesapeake Bay 3D chart.
- 16.5 in diameter, quartz tide movement
- Set once at local high tide
- Laser-etched birch face, AA battery, ready to hang
- Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
- 14-day returns
Shipping and returns
Orders placed by 2 PM EST ship the next business day, free anywhere in the US, with tracking.
14-day returns if the size or frame is not right for the room.
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How the water becomes wood
One hand on this wall answers to the moon, not the hour.
The tide hand turns once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the lunar cycle. Set it at your local high tide once and it tracks from there, over the carved, hand-stained shoreline of Chesapeake Bay.
For the wall you pass on the way down to the water.
Mudroom, kitchen, the wall above the boat keys. Birch face, hand-stained sea, quartz movement, one AA battery, ready to hang.
From the people who hung one
42 reviews, 4.9 average
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