5 Minutes 6" Brass Sand Timer

We are currently the leading manufacturer of Brass Sand Timer offering the widest range of brass vintage hourglass sand timer. The Nautical Brass Sand Timers are high quality hand crafted reproductions of original solid brass, wooden, glass, aluminium etc.i ? The sand timers where used to measure short amounts of time by allowing a given measure of sand to pass from the upper to the lower glass sphere.

These high quality reproduction Sand timers and Hourglasses are replicas of the original sand timers used by mariners over the ages to measure time against distance to determine the rate of knots sailed The are made of the finest Brass.These Nautical hourglasses make exciting nautical gifts and executive presents to anyone who loves the sea. It is only with the introduction of mechanical type clocks that time began to be measured in units.Prior to the 15th century time was thought to be flowing. That concept resulted in the clepsydra, but heat and cold rendered water unreliable as a time medium. Dried sand passing from one container to another through a narrow aperture was unaffected by weather, so the hourglass sand timer became the ultimate expression of flowing time measuring a unit.