Custom Bamboo Sand Timer, 5 Minute Hourglass in Kraft Gift Box

A five minute sand timer in a turned bamboo frame with a glass vessel and white silica sand, supplied in a plain kraft gift box. Logo laser engraved or pad printed on the bamboo cap. Held in stock, so it does not wait on an indent run. We supply and brand the sand timer; we do not manufacture it.

• Material: bamboo frame, glass vessel, silica sand
• Size & format: 48mm diameter x 95mm high · gift box 100 x 52 x 50mm
• Duration: 5 minutes
• Branding: laser engraving or pad print, 38mm circle on the cap
• Minimum order: 200 pieces
• Lead time: 21 to 45 days custom · 7 days express

Laser engraving is the right decoration here and pad print is the fallback. The cap is solid bamboo, so a laser burns the mark into the grain permanently and leaves a tonal brown that suits the material. Pad print puts ink on top in a flat colour, which reads more clearly from a distance and is the better choice if your logo needs to stay a specific brand colour. Either way you have a 38mm circle to work in, so a wordmark usually needs to become a monogram or an icon.

Five minutes is a deliberate length and it decides who this suits. It is the standard interval for a focus block, a meditation or breathing exercise, a stand-up update, a tea steep or a timed interview round. It is not a kitchen timer and not a board game timer. Wellness and mindfulness programmes, HR onboarding packs, coaching and training rooms, and clinics are where a five minute glass earns its place rather than sitting in a drawer.

It is a desk object before it is a timer, and that is the point. Most recipients will turn it over twice and then leave it on a shelf, which is exactly the behaviour you are buying — a branded item that stays in view at a desk for years without needing batteries, charging or consumables. At a few dollars each it is one of the cheapest ways to put a mark somewhere permanent, which is why it works for mass conference giveaways as well as considered gifts.

Two hundred pieces is exactly one carton. A carton holds 200 timers at 47 x 47 x 28cm, 0.06 cubic metres and 12kg, so the minimum order ships as a single sealed unit with no part-carton waste, and each piece arrives in its own kraft box ready to hand over. Stock is held rather than made to order, so the lead time is driven by the branding run, not production.