The Spectra sundial stands almost 12" tall and is made of beveled glass and fine cast stone with brass shadowcaster and leveling feet, complete with a soft rubber bottom to protect your furniture or window sill. Each one of these indoor sundials is carefully handmade to order as an individual commission and treated as a functional piece of fine art sculpture. Every Spectra sundial is calculated for the town where it is to be located, so unlike most "catalog" sundials it actually works and is capable of telling clock time to within a couple minutes of accuracy. As a result, every Spectra sundial looks a little bit different, and no two sundials are ever exactly the same.

 

Each Spectra sundial we make arrives with an informative packet of sundial information that includes detailed illustrated instructions on setup and use, product features, and a signed and numbered sheet with all of the individual technical specifications for your specific sundial. Click on any picture for a closer look, or you can go directly to the sundial orders page to learn more about how to have one made for you.

 

 

 

 

These unique vertical sundials are individually made to point, or "face"- meaning the direction you will be facing when you read them - any direction that receives direct sunlight during the course of the day. Some of the standard direction sundials we make face due south, like the one pictured at the top of this page, and tell time during the midday hours. We also make east facing sundials that tell time during the morning hours and west facing sundials that tell time from midday until the sun slips out of sight in the evening. These east or west facing beveled glass sundials can easily throw a beautiful rainbow colored spectrum all the way across your room in the morning or evening when the sun is low in the sky.

 

The Spectra sundial can be ordered as a unique gift that simply faces one of these cardinal compass directions - E, SE, S, SW, or W - or if you want to give a Spectra as a gift and are unsure of where your recipient might want to put it or which direction his window faces, you can order a Spectra sundial gift certificate for a sundial to be made at a later date - that way they have it made however they like.

This is a mostly eastern facing Spectra sundial that tells time during the morning hours. Sometimes a certain windowsill or other sunny spot will not perfectly one of the basic compass directions mentioned above, requiring you to rotate a standard direction Spectra sundial until it faces its design compass direction. In situations where this is not acceptable, such as a placement like the one above on a narrow southeast facing windowsill, we have devised a way that we can make your new glass sundial so that it will face the same direction that your window does. This method can also be used to "aim" the proposed sundial so that it can be oriented with respect to its surroundings - contact us for details. Generally, if you can face the sun directly in your proposed location at some time during the day, we can make a sundial for you that will indicate the time during that part of the day.

For $200 you can have a Spectra sundial made just for you. Let us know what direction it should face, the town where it will be located, any special inscriptions (you will have a chance during the ordering process) and we will get your new custom sundial started right away! We use PayPal to process all of our online credit card transactions - and you can use your regular credit card to order a Spectra sundial - you do not need to have a PayPal account.