Weems & Plath
The Endurance Collection of indoor/outdoor weather instruments features a large selection of styles with weatherproof construction.
The Bluewater Collection of weather instruments feature a matte finish bezel, glass crystal, and a splash resistant black styrene case.
The Atlantis Collection of weather instruments are created from solid hand polished brass and flawlessly lacquered.
Make a bold statement while enjoying accurate and timely weather monitoring. Enhance your home, office, garden or boat!
Analog clocks have moving mechanical parts and come in several colors and finishes. Some models tell more than time and can use a wood base or be mounted on the wall!
Stormglasses have predicted the weather since 1750 and not just storms! They can also predict frost, rain, clear & dry conditions, and improving weather.
By monitoring the time and the moon's movements, tide clocks display current tide and how many hours until high/low tide. Some models can use a wood base or be mounted on the wall. Perfect for anyone living near tidal influenced areas!
We carry a number of high quality accessories for Weem & Plath weather instruments, including bases and stormglass plaques.
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- Temperature Compensated Fully Adjustable Aneroid Movement
- Inch & Millibar Scales Displayed
- Calibrated for Altitudes to 3,500'
- Beveled Glass Crystal
- Use w/ Wood Base or Wall Mount
- Guaranteed to NEVER Tarnish
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- Precision Quartz Movement
- Hand Polished Forged Brass
- Use in Wood Base or Wall Mount
- Will Never Tarnish
- Limited Lifetime Warranty
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- Indicates Position of the Tide in Relation to the Current Time
- Calibrated for East Coast of USA
- Use w/ Wood Base or Wall Mount
- Hand Polished Forged Brass
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- Indicates Position of the Tide in Relation to the Current Time
- Calibrated for East Coast of USA
- Use w/ Wood Base or Wall Mount
- Brass
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Weems & Plath
In May of 1919, eight years before Lindbergh's famous solo flight, three small planes set out from Newfoundland headed for London in an attempt to make the first trans-Atlantic flight. Only one of them made it. Twenty-five hundred feet below on board a station tracking ship, a young navigator, Lt. Cdr. Philip Van Horn Weems, U.S. Navy, gazed up and thought there must be a safer and simpler way than using a small armada of ships as beacons for the flight. Lt. Cdr. Weems, a brilliant, inventive and determined young man knew as he tracked that first flight that navigation was his destiny.
He went on to revolutionize the field with his ideas, writings and inventions of navigational instruments. The challenge he undertook was complex and involved the invention of new methods and new precision tools and navigational instruments. He published numerous articles and taught navigation at the Naval Academy in the 1920's. He went on to establish his own school in Annapolis to teach The Weems System of Navigation. A century earlier,Carl Plath's company in Hamburg, Germany; C. Plath, had been manufacturing the finest commercial sextants and magnetic compasses available. C. Plath developed the first gyrocompass installed on a commercial vessel in 1913. Weems' school for navigation had become the purveyor of Weems' instruments. It was a natural development for Weems' company to become the North American source for C. Plath's fine navigational instruments; hence the alliance of two distinguished names; Weems and Plath. The exceptional workmanship that both Philip Van Horn Weems and Carl Plath required in developing the manufacturing of precision navigation instruments and tools remains at the heart of all their products.
Today, Weems and Plath is still located in the Chesapeake Bay town of Annapolis where it began so many years ago. They are committed to supplying the world with the finest nautical products and navigational instruments available while maintaining the high standards of service that have distinguished Weems and Plath from its inception.
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