Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, May 15, 2016
REUTTER ATMOS Atmos, "J.L. Reutter Patent" Atmos, Pendule Perpetuelle, J.L. Reutter patent, No. 6980, Swiss. Made in the late 1920s. Very fine and very rare, early, Art Deco, chrome and glass, "perpetual" clock wound by changes in barometric pressure. Overhauled by Jaeger LeCoultre
Rectangular, chromed frame and inclined base, glazed 4 sides and top with rectangular base. Matte silvered with applied blued brass baton indexes and "Art Deco" Arabic quarter-hour numerals. Blued steel Breguet hands. Chrome, vacuum chamber winding the going barrel, lever escapement driven by annular tension pendulum, locking lever in the base below the pendulum.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3 |
Good |
Dial: 4-7-16-01 |
Fair Oxidized Rusted HANDS Original |