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

Monterey Bay, 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 Monterey Bay wall clock: 12 inches of carved birch with the bay's sweep etched beneath the hands, canyon head to Cannery Row.

Monterey keeps otter time, kelp time, and whale time, all of them approximate, and this clock adds the human schedule on top. The etching holds the bay's full curve from Santa Cruz around to the peninsula, with the submarine canyon's plunge implied right where the fishing boats idle out of Moss Landing.

Made for the wall between the wetsuits and the binoculars.

The bay and its canyon carry full carved relief on the Monterey Bay 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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