Wenge Clock with Curly Maple & Bubinga
Some things don't ask for your attention. They simply take it.
You've just walked into the room. Maybe it's a Tuesday. Maybe it's late. It doesn't matter — because something on the wall has stopped you mid-thought, and now you're standing there, head slightly tilted, trying to decide if what you're looking at is furniture or art.
It's a clock. But that feels like the wrong word for it.
The face is Wenge — a wood from the old-growth forests of Central Africa that is so dark, so dramatically grained, it seems to absorb light rather than reflect it. Somewhere deep in the Congo basin, it took this tree decades to become what it is. That kind of patience leaves a mark. You can see it in the grain: unhurried, deliberate, running straight and true like something that knew exactly where it was going.
At twelve, three, six, and nine, stacked rectangular frames of Curly Maple float against the darkness like windows lit from inside. The maple shimmers. It does this on its own — a rare figuring in the grain that makes the wood seem to move when you do. You noticed it immediately. You'll keep noticing it.
Between those four anchor points, small dashes of Bubinga mark the hours. Reddish-brown, warm, the color of embers an hour after the fire.
The hands are brushed aluminum. Cool. Spare. Unsentimental. The right choice.
It's 24 inches across. It will be the largest thing on your wall and the first thing anyone sees. You already know where you're going to hang it.
- Face: Solid Wenge
- Inlay — cardinal frames: Curly Maple
- Hour markers: Bubinga
- Hands: Brushed aluminum
- Diameter: 24 inches
- Movement: Precision quartz
- Finish: Hand-applied, oil-based finish
- Handmade — each clock is one of a kind
You already know where you're going to hang it.
