Vintage 1960's Jaeger LeCoultre Atmos Clock #528 -Works
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Vintage 1960's Jaeger LeCoultre Atmos Clock #528 -Works Description Vintage 1960's Era Jaeger LeCoultre Atmos Mantel Clock Model 528 - Works Great. It has serial number 219005 and measures about 8 3/4" tall, the base is 5 1/4" x 7" and the bezel is 4 3/4" wide. It comes complete in fine order, it had been in the same family for decades and has always worked fine. It has been working well on my desk this past week. The brass and glass case are in solid clean complete condition with only a couple very tiny spots of tarnish. It is not marked with a model number but I was told it is a model 528 - please check my photos. We will pack it carefully with lots of cushion double boxed. "Living On Air" The History of the Legendary Atmos Clock: In the late 1920s Jean-Leon Reutter , a young Paris engineer, experimented with a clock that needed no direct mechanical or electrical intervention to keep it wound, in short a clock powered only by Perpetual Motion . For centuries, many scientist including Leonardo Da Vinci had experimented with the idea of Perpetual Motion - however, only J.L. Reutter eventually succeeded at incorporating that novel idea into an actual working clock.Through out his life, J.L. Reutter's dream of a Perpetual Motion timepiece led him to produce a clock with a timekeeping mechanism designed specifically to consume the
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