Use this beautiful hand-blown liquid sand timer is an elegant decorative piece making it an ideal gift. Or use it as a practical and traditional timer – measures 3 minutes.

This unique application of the sand-timer was used throughout the sixteenth century as a way of measuring a ship’s speed. This method of measuring distance by calculating speed lasted well into the nineteenth century.

It is said that Charlemagne ordered an hourglass so large that it had to be turned only once every twelve hours. Eventually the sand-timer or hourglass found its way into every day use, near the work areas of craftsmen, and into the halls of education and now your home of office

Height: 20 cm
Diameter: 32 mm