Tidepieces - Orient Point Light Tide Clock - Black Flat Panel

Exclusively available only from Mellow Monkey Handcrafted by local artisan, Alan Winick, this tide clock has the image of Orient Point Light, a sparkplug lighthouse off Orient Point, New York in Plum Gut of Long Island Sound, with a tide that rises and falls as the actual tide in your location goes from high to low. The United States Lighthouse Service placed a daymarker at the site in 1855, announcing that it would be replaced by a beacon, but its completion was delayed by the hardness of the rock and a nighttime collision into the temporary staging by a trading vessel. Construction of a cast-iron caisson tower on the reef began in October 1898 but was halted for a year by stormy weather. Construction began again in the spring, and by September, most of the project was in place. The lamp was lit on November 10, 1899, but the fifth-order Fresnel lens proved to be too weak and was replaced by a fourth order lens on May 1, 1900. A fog signal went into operation of June 1 of that y