vintage 1960s JAEGER LECOULTRE ATMOS clock STUNNING

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IS AN ABSOLUTLEY STUNNING VINTAGE JAEGER LECOULTRE ATMOS CLOCK ...SERIAL NUMBER IS 246322 WHICH PLACES IT IN THE 1960S .....IT IS RUNNING GREAT AND KEEPING TIME ...VERY COOL PERPETUAL MOTION CLOCK THAT REQUIRES NO WINDING ...MADE BY THE HIGH END CLOCK AND WATCH COMPANY LECOULTRE ...HAS A DEDICATION PLATE ATTACHED TO THE FRONT THAT CAN BE REMOVED..I HAVE NOT CLEANED NOR POLISHED THIS CLOCK...Jaeger Le Coultre Atmos Clock. Runs Excellent. No Reserve This is an ingenious clock that is powered by small changes in the atmosp, hence the name. It was invented by an engineer named Jean-Leon Reutter who was curious whether a perpetual motion clock was actually possible and LeCoultre eventually bought his patent after he successfully invented the clock, but had difficulty marketing it. ..MORE ON ATMOS CLOCKS :Atmos is the brand name of a mechanical clock manufactured by jaeger-lecoultre in Switzerland which doesn't need to be wound. It gets the energy it needs to run from small temperature changes and atmospheric pressure changes in the environment, and can run for years without human intervention. Its power source is a hermetically sealed capsule containing a mixture of gas and liquid ethyl chloride, which expands into an expansion chamber as the temperature rises, compressing a spiral spring; with a fall in temperature the gas condenses read more