Golden Gate, California wood wall clock in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Golden Gate, California 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 Golden Gate wall clock in carved birch: the strait, the bridge line, and the headlands etched across the face, with the hands sweeping over the channel.

The Gate has its own clock, tide turning, fog arriving, container ships making their slots, and this one runs parallel to it. The etching centers on the mile-wide gap that all of the bay's water passes through, the single most consequential stretch of water on the West Coast, reduced to wall scale.

It suits the hallway of anyone whose favorite view needs no caption.

The strait's full carved depths hang as the Golden Gate 3D chart.

  • 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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