New Orleans, Louisiana wood wall clock in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

New Orleans, Louisiana 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 New Orleans wall clock in carved birch, 12 inches: the crescent, the lake, and the river etched beneath the hands.

New Orleans keeps famously flexible hours, second lines do not run on schedules, but the clock holds the official version over the etched geography that explains everything: the river's deep bend, the Quarter inside it, Pontchartrain spreading north with the Causeway's long line.

It suits a shotgun-house kitchen or any wall that plays WWOZ.

The city's full depths are carved on the New Orleans 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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