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A Little Information On Time...and our Nautical Clocks

It's morning. The alarm goes off. You're barely awake but you look to see what time it is. You check your watch again when you get out of the shower and again as you head out the door. All day long, you check your watch to keep on schedule. These time keeping devices help us regulate our lives. When to get up, when to eat, when to play and work and sleep. Can you imagine a world without clocks? A world where time isn't a critical element?

It used to be that people lived without mechanical time keeping devices. Time was simply a matter of when the sun came up and when it went down. That's one of the big attractions of a vacation. Forgetting about time. But most vacations are just as scheduled as our daily work lives. Just a different schedule.

Whatever type of time piece you might have, they all have one thing in common - they consistently count precise units of time. Be it atomic, quartz, electric or those stately grandfather clocks with the slowly swinging pendulum, they all have the same primary function. Marking the passage of time in a manner which is a standard in all societies. That manner is universally accepted as seconds, minutes, and hours.

Sometimes we wish we could just head off to some tropical island where we could sit on the shady porch of a little shack and just go back to natural time keeping. Sun comes up, sun goes down and in between we do whatever our little hearts desire. But that's just a pipe dream. For now, just take a minute to browse through our beautiful examples of Nautical Clocks. As a gift or as a way to keep yourself on schedule, counting down the hours until that next vacation!

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Nautical Clocks

Early seafarers carried crude instruments to measure latitude. Longitude took much longer. The 18th century heralded the arrival of the first ship's chronometer, relatively exact, and it suddenly became a lot less risky to sail the world's oceans.

Imagine sailing across the Indian Ocean in an ancient square rigger. Taking off from Cape of Good Hope and heading towards Australia, (at that time New Holland). It was customary to pick up a trade wind from there to head out North to the Spice Islands and China. But if the captain had made a predictable error in reckoning the ship's position, and the lookout fell asleep, the ship might well end up on Australia's West Coast coral reefs, now a source of untold treasures and buried cargo.

Take a bit of time and browse through the beautiful Nautical Clocks that we have for you to look at. Not only are they decorative and well made, but they are the ultimate practical gifts, always welcome, always fondly remembered.