Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Mar 15, 2015
LOT 358
J. L. REUTTER PATENT ATMOS TWO COLOR MARBLE Atmos, "Pendule Perpetuelle", J.L. Reutter patent, No. 4144, Swiss. Made in the late 1920s. Very fine and very rare, early, Art Deco, black and gray marble "perpetual" clock wound by changes in barometric pressure with early mercury in glass expansion device.
CHF 6,000 - 8,000
HKD 50,000 - 67,000 / USD 6,500 - 8,600
Sold: CHF 12,500
Rectangular, black marble case with gray veined marble for the front and base, chrome-rimmed aperture to view the revolving pendulum, chrome bezel. Matte silvered with painted black baton indexes, inner minute track. Black painted epee hands. Chrome, vacuum chamber with rotating drum driven by a mercury in glass expansion device winding the going barrel by a blued steel spring and ratchet, lever escapement driven by annular torsion pendulum, locking lever in the base below the pendulum.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 2 |
Very good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |