Close view of the bored hour markers and the hands against the grain

Organic Wall Clock, Carved Solid Wood

Cherry
£109.00
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Close view of the bored hour markers and the hands against the grain
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  • Close view of the bored hour markers and the hands against the grain
  • Wall clock with a hollowed face and rippled rim, hanging on a pale wall
  • The clock on a dark blue wall above a shelf with a trailing plant and a candle
  • The clock seen at an angle, showing how deeply the face is hollowed
  • The clock from the side, showing the rippled rim standing away from the wall
Organic Wall Clock, Carved Solid Wood

Organic Wall Clock, Carved Solid Wood

£109.00

A wall clock with no straight edges. The face is hollowed into a dish and the rim ripples around it, so the outline changes as you move past it and the shadow it throws on the wall never settles into a shape you can name. There is no bezel, no glass and no printed dial — the hours are marked by shallow holes bored into the wood at different depths.

300 mm across, 42 mm thick, in cherry or ash. Cherry is the warmer of the two, reddish and close-grained, and it darkens over the years. Ash is paler and open-pored; on a face this deeply hollowed the grain sweeps around the dish in wide bands, which makes the ash version the more restless of the two.

Quartz movement, one AA battery. The battery is not included — lithium and alkaline cells are restricted in international air freight, and shipping one with the clock would delay or block a good part of our orders. Any AA will do.

Made to order in our workshop in Romania.
Product details

A wall clock carved from a single panel of solid wood, hollowed into a dish with a rippled rim. Choose cherry or ash — both are shown in the photographs.

The hours are not printed or applied. They are shallow holes bored into the face at varying depths, which is why they read clearly in raking light and almost disappear in flat light. There are no numerals, so the clock is read by position rather than by figure — quick enough after a day, and the reason it works as an object on a wall rather than as an instrument.

Quartz movement, one AA battery, not supplied. Hangs on a single screw from a keyhole recessed into the back. Sold individually. Made to order, ready to ship in 3–5 working days.
Dimensions and specifications
  • Wood: solid cherry or solid ash, one panel, no glued joints
  • Dimensions: 300 × 240 × 42 mm (11.8″ × 9.4″ × 1.7″)
  • Weight: about 1.5 kg
  • Tolerance: ±1 mm
  • Hour markers: shallow bored holes, no numerals, no applied markers
  • Movement: quartz, silent sweep second hand
  • Battery: 1 × AA — NOT included, see Mounting for why
  • Fixing: keyhole recessed into the back, hangs on one screw
  • Finish: clear lacquer, two coats
  • Sold individually
  • Made to order: 3–5 working days before dispatch
Mounting

Fit the battery before you hang the clock. A single AA goes into the movement on the back; any alkaline or rechargeable AA works.

  1. Set the time using the wheel on the back of the movement, not by pushing the hands round the front.
  2. Hold the clock against the wall and mark through the keyhole opening in the back.
  3. Drill and plug for your wall type. At 1.5 kg the fixing is not carrying much; the plug is there so the screw does not work loose over the years.
  4. Leave the screw head standing about 4 mm proud of the wall, hook the wide part of the keyhole over it, then let the clock settle onto the narrow part.
  5. Do not try to level it by eye against the ceiling. The rim is irregular by design and gives you nothing straight to measure against — set it by the twelve o’clock marker instead.

Why no battery: lithium and alkaline cells are restricted in international air freight. Sending one inside the parcel would delay or block a large share of our orders, so we leave it out and you use whatever AA you have.

Take the battery out if the clock will hang unused for months. A leaking cell will stain the wood from the inside, and that mark does not come out.
Materials & workshop

Cherry or ash, cut from one panel. Cherry is reddish and close-grained and deepens in colour over years rather than months. Ash is pale and open-pored, and because the face is hollowed the cut crosses the growth rings at a constantly changing angle — the grain sweeps around the dish in wide bands instead of running straight across it. The two woods make genuinely different objects here, more so than on a flat panel. Ash costs slightly more because it behaves differently under the tool.

Made in our own workshop in Roman, Romania. The shape is the same on every clock; the wood is not. Each panel comes out of a different board, so the pattern that ends up on the face is decided by which part of the tree the blank was cut from and by nothing else — two clocks of the same size and species can look very little alike.

Hollowing a dish 42 mm deep into a panel this wide removes most of the material and leaves the remaining wood under uneven tension, which is why the blank is left to settle before the movement hole is bored. Sanding and finishing are done by hand, and on a surface that curves in two directions at once that is the slow part.
Care

Dust with a dry, soft brush. The hour holes hold dust and a cloth pushes it further in rather than lifting it out. Never use water or a household cleaner on the lacquered face.

Keep the clock off a wall that gets direct afternoon sun. Cherry darkens under strong light and ash lightens, and on a dished face the change happens unevenly — the raised rim shades part of the dish and you end up with a line where there was none.

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