Perpetual motion reinvented. Jaeger LeCoultre Atmos 56

(Jaeger LeCoultre Atmos 56)

The world’s only clock movement that runs on thin air has reached its eightieth birthday. The Atmos 561 was created to celebrate this landmark occasion; it is completely balanced and simple according to its design.

Since its invention, the Atmos has embodied the passion of its creator, Jean Leon Reutter. Designer Marc Newson, who has always been fascinated by the Atmos clock, has designed its case as a Baccarat crystal bubble, which brings out its ethereal nature, lends it a futuristic elegance and catapults it into the ranks of today’s great designs. This exceptional clock is being made in a limited series of 888 pieces. The Atmos 561 illustrates the creativity of its designer.

Born in Australia, 44-year-old Marc Newson was the one who, long attracted to Jaeger-LeCoultre’s legendary clock, one day contacted the Grande Maison and offered a design for it. This suggestion was greeted with immediate enthusiasm: Jaeger- LeCoultre accepted his offer. In the Atmos 561 Newson managed to capture, in the staggering innovative power of his interpretation, the very essence of the Atmos clock, which for eighty years has symbolised the dream of quasi perpetual motion.

TECHNICAL DATA:

Movement:
mechanical,
almost perpetual,
Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 561,
crafted and assembled by hand
284 parts
annular balance,
60-second oscillation period

Functions:
hour,
minute,
month,
moon phase

Dial:
metal moon with circular-polished finish
white and black metal moon disc

Hands:
Blued aluminium

Cabinet:
bubble shaped, made by the Baccarat crystal makers

Dimensions:
276 mm x 250 mm x 163 mm
Limited series of 888

Reference: 516 51 01

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Jaeger LeCoultre Atmos

The Jaeger LeCoultre Atmos lives in the air of time since 1928. Absolute reference in pendulous was invented by engineer Neuchatel Jean-Leon Reutter and improved in the Manufacture workhouses.
The Atmos pendulous measure the pass pf the time with continuity that years cannot alter. Great creation, its principle is to show supreme simplicity.
A capsule closed hermetically holds a gaseous mixture that is dilated when the temperature increases and is contracted when the temperature decreases.
A variation of temperature of only one grade is needed to guarantee to the pendulous autonomy in the working process of approximately two days. Extraordinarily following the endless movement that flashed to the great masters of the Renaissance, the Atmos pendulous breaks the rules of the physics and exceeds the limits of the material. In its style traditional or futurist, it opens the doors of the eternity.

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