Norfolk, carved into a tide clock
Birch face, hand-stained sea, one hand set to the tide.
“Beautiful piece, expertly crafted. Packed well and arrived in perfect condition.”
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A Norfolk tide clock in carved birch: Hampton Roads etched across a 16.5 inch face, Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News, and the mouth of the Chesapeake, with one hand keeping the moon's schedule.
Details
- Dimensions
- 16.5 in diameter
- Material
- Birch, hand-stained water
- Build
- Recessed layered face
- Detail
- Quartz tide movement, AA battery
- Soundings
- NOAA nautical survey data
About this piece
Hampton Roads is where the James, the Elizabeth, and the Nansemond meet the Chesapeake, one of the great natural harbors in the world. The tide moves the whole basin, setting the current for the ships at Norfolk and the fishing from Willoughby Spit to the York River. The tide hand rotates once every 12 hours and 25 minutes with the lunar cycle, holding the harbor's rhythm after a single setting at high tide.
Right for a Norfolk or Hampton home, a Navy family, or anyone who has crossed the bridge-tunnel.
The harbor is carved in relief on the Norfolk 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
Shipping and returns
Orders placed by 2 PM EST ship the next business day, free anywhere in the US, with tracking.
14-day returns if the size or frame is not right for the room.
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How the water becomes wood
One hand on this wall answers to the moon, not the hour.
The tide hand turns once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the lunar cycle. Set it at your local high tide once and it tracks from there, over the carved, hand-stained shoreline of Norfolk.
For the wall you pass on the way down to the water.
Mudroom, kitchen, the wall above the boat keys. Birch face, hand-stained sea, quartz movement, one AA battery, ready to hang.
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