Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 407

J.L. Reutter Patent Atmos ? Two Color Marble Atmos, ?Pendule Perpetuelle?, J.L. Reutter patent, movement No. 27, No. 6784, Swiss. Made in the late 1920s. Very fine and very rare, early, Art Deco, black and mottled marble "perpetual" clock wound by changes in barometric pressure with early mercury in glass expansion device.

C. Rectangular, black marble case with mottled marble for the front and base, chrome-rimmed aperture to view the revolving pendulum, inclined chrome bezel. D. Matte silvered with painted black baton indexes, inner minute track. Black painted epee hands. M. 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. Dial signed ?Atmos Pendule Perpetuelle?, applied plaque inscribed ?Brevets J.L. Reutter S.G.D.G?. Dim. height 22.4 cm., width 20.5 cm., depth 13 cm.