Chesapeake Bay, Maryland wood tide clock in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Wood Tide Clock | Carved Birch Coastal Wall Clock

$ 84.00
16.5 in diameter
Birch, hand-stained water
Recessed layered face
Quartz tide movement, AA battery
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

One hand on this wall answers to the moon, not the hour.

  1. ChartThe recessed birch face carries the water's etched shoreline over a hand-stained sea.
  2. MovementA quartz mechanism turns the tide hand once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the lunar tide cycle.
  3. Set onceAlign it at your local high tide, or at the full or new moon, and it tracks from there.
  4. NoteTide movements are offered for East Coast waters only; Gulf and West Coast tides run too irregular for a quartz mechanism.

A Chesapeake Bay tide clock: 16.5 inches of carved birch with the Bay etched across the face and a single hand keeping the moon's schedule.

Chesapeake tides are modest in feet and mighty in consequence: they set when the watermen run their trotlines, when the flats hold enough water for the skiff, and when the crabs move. The tide hand rotates once every 12 hours and 25 minutes on the lunar cycle, so one setting against local high water keeps your creek's rhythm on the wall through the season.

It belongs where the crab steamer and the dip nets live.

The Bay's full depths are carved in layers on the Chesapeake Bay 3D chart.

  • 16.5 in diameter, quartz tide movement
  • Set 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
View details