Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos 568 by Marc Newson

Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos 568 by Marc Newson

Published: November 17, 2016 | By: American Luxury Staff

Jaeger-LeCoultre has joined up with industrial designer Marc Newson to create the newest example of its forever-famed Atmos clock that the Swiss marque first revealed in 1928.

The Atmos 568 is a torsion pendulum clock that is powered by changes in atmospheric pressure and temperature. Inside the Atmos is a hermetically sealed capsule that contains ethyl chloride in both a gas and liquid state, which can expand or contract with only a change of one degree in temperature, providing enough power to drive the movement for about two days.

Time on the Atmos 568 is tracked across the glass face via hour and minute hands, blue indices, and Arabic numerals in the same color. The month can be seen in the center dial and the phase of the moon is shown off on a disc that is fixed in the front.

A Baccarat crystal globe houses and displays the delicate Jaeger-LeCoultre movement in the Atmos clock.

The Atmos 568 crystal clock costs $28,000.

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