Shepherds Watch® is the creation of Quebec artist and designer Harris Morrison. About twenty years ago, Harris came across a 400-year-old portable sundial in an antique shop in Paris. It inspired a period of intense research on sundials, and he joined the American and British Sundial Societies. Drawing on his years as an artist and craftsman, Harris began designing elegant, fully functioning modern sundials, modeled after the originals.  His new passion soon became a new business, and he sold the successful pottery studio that had kept him and several employees busy for a decade. Over the years, his designs have been carefully translated into the many beautiful timepieces you see on this site.

Our products are all hand-crafted by a small network of skilled artisans, most of them here in Montreal, where Shepherds Watch is based. We maintain rigorous standards and do not hesitate to reject pieces which fail to meet those standards.

As our civilization goes through dramatic changes, we hope that people will be drawn to the classic simple beauty of these functional pieces of art.  In a world increasingly dependent on electricity and batteries, we hope these timepieces and accessories will appeal to those who yearn for something as natural as a simple bead of light.

We are working to add models to our New World line of sundials based on design motifs from the indigenous cultures of the Americas -- Aztec, Maya and Navajo. We have a bold new design in development that replicates a wearable sundial designed in Dresden (in Prussia) near the end of the Renaissance.  We hope to add to our new line of garden sundials, too, and may even add an authetic replica of an astrolabe to our catalog in the coming year.  So stay tuned...