Under the glass crystal is a white dial with black hands and easy-to-read numerals. Red tide hand indicates approximate tides for Atlantic Ocean. Please note: this is not intended to accurately predict the tides in every location on the Atlantic coast.
Quartz, battery operated movement.
D. 1-3/4" (4 cm)
Dia. 8" (20 cm)
Trivia:
NEAP adj. Designating or relating to a tide occurring just after the first or third quarters of the moon, when the high-water level is lowest and there is least difference between high- and low-water levels; opposed to SPRING TIDE.
[Origin unknown. Cf. German regional (Low German: East Friesland) Nippflood, Nipptide, German Nippflut (1827 or earlier), Nipptide, Swedish nipflod (1881), niptid (1887), Danish nipflod (1880 or earlier), niptid (1756 or earlier; also in form neptid), all late borrowings, prob. ult. from English. Connections with the Germanic bases of NIP v.1 and NEB n. have been suggested, but are difficult to explain phonologically and semantically.
Definition and etymology taken from the Oxford English Dictionary.
Features:
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