Hilton Head, South Carolina Tide & Time Clock | Carved Birch Coastal Wall Clock
How the Water Becomes Wood
One hand on this wall answers to the moon, not the hour.
- ChartThe recessed birch face carries the water's etched shoreline over a hand-stained sea.
- MovementA quartz mechanism turns the tide hand once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the lunar tide cycle.
- Set onceAlign it at your local high tide, or at the full or new moon, and it tracks from there.
- NoteTide movements are offered for East Coast waters only; Gulf and West Coast tides run too irregular for a quartz mechanism.
A tide and time clock for Hilton Head: a 16.5 inch carved birch face with the island, Calibogue Sound, and Broad Creek etched in, one movement keeping the hour and another tracking the pull of the moon.
Hilton Head's seven-to-eight-foot tides remake the island twice a day. Broad Creek becomes navigable and then becomes mudflat, the sandbar gatherings assemble and disperse, and the dolphin tours time their strand-feeding watches to the drop. The tide hand rotates once every 12 hours and 25 minutes to match the lunar cycle, so after one setting against local high water it stays honest season after season, while the time hands keep the tee time and the dinner reservation.
It suits the wall by the garage door, above the beach wagon and the bike helmets.
The island's full water is carved in relief on the Hilton Head 3D chart.
- 16.5 in diameter, tide and time movements
- Set the tide hand 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
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