Pocket Sundial Brass Antique Pocket Sundial
The pocket sundials from Austrian manufacturer Kala Pocket Sundial combine the past and the present and are a foldable, palm-sized version of the former seafaring technology.
These magical timepieces and accessories for modern adventurers are crafted from brass and steel in small batches to ensure the highest quality. The unique double-ring construction can be adjusted to any latitude—for use as a clock, compass, or Earth model.
Whether traveling by ship or plane, the sundials are aligned with the Earth’s axis and display the current time, wherever our travels take us.
Outer and inner rings fold for easy transport.
No assembly required. Instruction manual in German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish. Packaged in a stylish cardboard box.
Further, once setup, the sundial is a model of our planet too with the bridge parallel to the earth’s axis, and it can thus be used as a precise compass – making a truly versatile instrument.
From the manufacturer: As a family of Austrian watchmakers we have spent 23 years crafting the design of this solid brass and steel equatorial ring pocket sundial in the same purpose-built factory near Graz in Austria – and are proud to say that, because it measures just 60mm in diameter, it meets the official international sizing standard for pocket watches.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1656539257/kala-pocket-sundial-precision-made-in?
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I own a pocket watch that is about 2 inches wide or about 60mm.
https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/reference/sizes
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Here is an idea to wear the Pocket Sundial on your wrist like a watch.
I have not tried this but because the Pocket Sundial is 60mm it would
fit on the Pocket watch converter, Pocketwatch wrist holder.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1094648616/pocket-watch-converter-pocketwatch-wrist?
Wear the Pocket Sundial like a Pocket Wrist Watch.
Why not? Its the just same size as a 16s Pocket Watch.
When you want to tell the time just take your Pocket Sundial off
you wrist, Select your latitude, set the date, activate the hour ring,
Read your sundial. Time indicated should be +/- 5 Min.
Remember solar time is different that standard or daylight savings time. It is the actual time of the day.
Compare what your result with someone’s “accurate watch” time.
Where I live True solar time is about 30 minutes ahead of DST.
People wear Rolex watches for various reasons one of which is vanity
to impress people.
I am positive if you wear Pocket Sundial on your wrist it will get attention.
Especially if you take it off and show someone the correct real time!
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Find Longitude
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Find True Solar Time Below
https://ztatlock.net/sundial.html
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Captain Convey Pocket Sundial Comment
This pocket sundial is accurate within -,+ 5 Min
It also functions as a compass.
If the sun is shining it will work.
It uses solar time.
Solar time is always accurate unlike a watch which loses
or gains time.
A mechanical watch that is very accurate costs more.
It costs more because more is added to the mechanical
watch to overcome the effects of gravity.
A quartz watch is more accurate and costs less unless its
a rolex etc.
A Pocket Sundial doesn’t need to overcome the effects of
gravity or need a battery.
Its waterproof and dustproof.
For those of you who live in Reo Linda, as Rush Limbaugh use to say,
Your gonna have trouble operating a Pocket Sundial if all you know
how to do it tap an iPhone screen or move your finger on a touch
screen.
You could tell your employer, Hey I was late because the sun wasn’t
shining and I had to wait for the sunlight.
I would advise against this because unless you live in Reo Linda your
employer won’t take that as an excuse for being late.
Mechanical and crystal watches allow you to know what the time is.
A Pocket Sundial does the same.
Have you ever thought about what time is?
I have.
Time was created for man.
The picture above is the earth and moon.
It looks like an earth-moon pocket watch.
This “Pocket Watch” keeps perfect time and never runs down.
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Time was created by God for man.
https://www.icr.org/article/creation-seven-day-week/
An often-overlooked testimony to the fact of creation is the strange phenomenon of the seven-day week. Almost universally observed in the present world and often observed in the ancient world, it is so deeply rooted in human experience and so natural physiologically that we seldom think about its intrinsic significance.
All the other important time markers in human life are clearly based on astronomical and terrestrial constants. The day, for example, is the duration of one rotation of the earth on its axis; the year is the duration of one orbital revolution of the earth about the sun; the month is the approximate interval between new moons; the seasons are marked by the equinoxes and solstices.
But the week has no astronomical basis whatever! Yet we order our lives in a seven-day cycle, doing certain things on Monday, certain other things on Tuesday, and so on through the week. Furthermore, the common pattern is one of six normal working days, then a day of rest or change, then six normal days again, and so on, with the special day regarded as either the last of the seven preceding it, or the first of the seven following it.
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What is God’s relationship to time?
https://www.gotquestions.org/God-time.html
We live in a physical world with its four known space-time dimensions of length, width, height (or depth) and time.
However, God dwells in a different realm—the spirit realm—beyond the perception of our physical senses.
It’s not that God isn’t real; it’s a matter of His not being limited by the physical laws and dimensions that govern our world (Isaiah 57:15).
Knowing that “God is spirit” (John 4:24), what is His relationship to time?
In Psalm 90:4, Moses used a simple yet profound analogy in describing the timelessness of God: “For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.”
The eternity of God is contrasted with the temporality of man.
Our lives are but short and frail, but God does not weaken or fail with the passage of time.
In a sense, the marking of time is irrelevant to God because He transcends it.
Peter, in 2 Peter 3:8, cautioned his readers not to let this one critical fact escape their notice—that God’s perspective on time is far different from mankind’s (Psalm 102:12, 24-27).
The Lord does not count time as we do.
He is above and outside of the sphere of time.
God sees all of eternity’s past and eternity’s future.
The time that passes on earth is of no consequence from God’s timeless perspective.
A second is no different from an eon; a billion years pass like seconds to the eternal God.
Though we cannot possibly comprehend this idea of eternity or the timelessness of God, we in our finite minds try to confine an infinite God to our time schedule.
Those who foolishly demand that God operate according to their time frame ignore the fact that He is the “High and Lofty One . . . who lives forever” (Isaiah 57:15).
This description of God is far removed from man’s condition: “The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away” (Psalm 90:10).
Again, because of our finite minds, we can only grasp the concept of God’s timeless existence in part.
And in so doing, we describe Him as a God without a beginning or end, eternal, infinite, everlasting, etc. Psalm 90:2 declares, “From everlasting to everlasting You are God” (see also Psalm 93:2). He always was and always will be.
So, what is time?
To put it simply, time is duration.
Our clocks mark change or, more precisely, our timepieces are benchmarks of change that indicate the passage of time.
We could say, then, that time is a necessary precondition for change and change is a sufficient condition to establish the passage of time.
In other words, whenever there’s change of any kind we know that time has passed.
We see this as we go through life, as we age.
And we cannot recover the minutes that have passed by.
Additionally, the science of physics tells us that time is a property resulting from the existence of matter.
As such, time exists when matter exists.
But God is not matter; God, in fact, created matter.
The bottom line is this: time began when God created the universe.
Before that, God was simply existing. Since there was no matter, and because God does not change, time had no existence and therefore no meaning, no relation to Him.
And this brings us to the meaning of the word eternity.
Eternity is a term used to express the concept of something that has no end and/or no beginning.
God has no beginning or end, but He cannot be wholly defined by eternity, especially as a measure of time.
(God is eternal, but eternity does not equal God. Similarly, God is all-powerful, but power does not equal God.)
Eternity is one of God’s attributes, but, having created time, He is greater than time and exists outside of it.
Scripture reveals that God lives outside the bounds of time as we know it.
Our destiny was planned “before the beginning of time” (2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 1:2) and “before the creation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:20).
“By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible” (Hebrews 11:3).
In other words, the physical universe we see, hear, feel and experience was created not from existing matter, but from a source independent of the physical dimensions we can perceive.
“God is spirit” (John 4:24), and, correspondingly, God is timeless rather than being eternally in time or being beyond time.
Time was simply created by God as a limited part of His creation for accommodating the workings of His purpose in His disposable universe (see 2 Peter 3:10-12).
Upon the completion of His creation activity, including the creation of time, what did God conclude?
“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good” (Gen 1:31). Indeed, God is spirit in the realm of timelessness, rather than flesh in the sphere of time.
As believers, we have a deep sense of comfort knowing that God, though timeless and eternal, is in time with us right now; He is not unreachably transcendent, but right here in this moment with us. And because He’s in this moment, He can respond to our needs and prayers.
When you look at your timepiece remember your days are numbered.
Time was created for man by God for his purpose.
Our time is very limited.
Let you timepiece be a reminder that God created time when he created
the universe and you.
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Time actually began “in the beginning” (Genesis 1:1), or else it would not have been “the beginning,” which is a time reference.
In fact, “day” is a time reference, and there are three of those prior to day four.
Some respond by pointing out that if the sun, moon, and stars weren’t around for the first three days, then there was no way to determine time, so the first three “days” may have been periods of indeterminate length.
The problem with this is that God was the one who measured the length of the first three days and He revealed that the first three days were a period of “evening” and “morning,” just like the last three days.
Also, God confirmed in Exodus 20:11 that these six days, plus God’s day of rest, comprised one week and formed the basis for our workweek.
This is repeated in Exodus 31:17–18, with the additional comment that these words were written by God Himself.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
This is when time began.
https://goodnewspost.com/01_001.htm
Time will end also.
Revelation 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
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https://goodnewspost.com/believe.htm
Romans 10:9,10
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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(The Defenders Study Bible Includes Strong’s Lexicon For Each Verse And Bible Study Notes.)
(Study Bible Beginning at Genesis 1:1 To Revelation)
Defender’s Study Bible (KJV Study Bible With Notes)