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

Nantucket, 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 Nantucket wall clock in carved birch, 12 inches across, the island's whole outline etched under the hands from Madaket to Great Point.

Island time is a cliche everywhere except places that actually run on boats, and Nantucket does: the ferry windows shape the day, and thirty miles of water excuse almost any lateness. This clock keeps the hours anyway, over an etched miniature of the harbor, the haulover, and the long sand arms that make the island what it is.

It fits a hallway, a guest room, or the off-island house that needs a daily reminder of the on-island one.

For the full water in stacked layers, see the Nantucket 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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