St Ives, Cornwall - beautifully captured in a clever moving mechanical Tide Clock. With an actual blinking lighthouse, the famous pier is illustrated alongside the colourful and recognisable townscape over looking Harbour Sand. The beach itself disappears behind moving mechanical waves that wash in and out with every tide, carrying the bobbing Cornish boats and the local pair of playful seals with them! This clock is a future family heirloom. Working in the same way as our regular Tide Clocks, the St Ives Tide Clock accurately keeps track of the day's tides, like a regular tide clock does, just in a more expressive way. The scenery updates every 30 minutes to keep track of the average moving tide. Like all tide clocks, it is set to work on a semi-diurnal timer of 12 hours 25 minutes and 15 seconds between high tides. Just set the clock to 'High Tide' when your favourite coastal location is also in flood and you're in sync. The ‘mechanically animated’ illustrations can be demonstrated to friends and family at the push of the ‘Mechanimate’ button on the clock – it will then complete an entire tidal loop with boats bobbing up and down along the way. Easy to hang, following the hanging guide that is included, and requires just a single screw in the wall. This clock is for indoor use only – and please don't hang it within 50cm (20 inches) of a radiator. Runs on regular batteries (included, of course). As with with all Limited Edition designs, we will will make only 250 of these very special clocks.